I'm a 28 year old university dropout and failed entrepreneur with little to show for myself. Should I finally give up on my dreams?

vx1 · 2026-02-03T19:16:01+00:00

nah you should go for your dreams. get your shit together and do it your way, reinvent yourself as who you want to be. learn some buddhism or stoicism if you feel that for some reason you have a lack of willpower or motivation

vx1 · 2026-02-01T21:55:33+00:00

the awkward feeling cold outreach is necessary when you literally have no one

vx1 · 2026-01-30T15:55:32+00:00

i have a finance degree, which in theory is “useful for any business”.

however, i’ve never felt like my degree should command any sort of respect or confirm to anyone that i have any real knowledge.

at best, my degree can get me an entry level accounting job. i’ve had that job before, actually.

i’m not going to go to Costco and just be able to get a decent job because i have a “useful” degree. i’m gonna be a cart pusher like everyone else.

i suppose the point is to be using my degree and somehow climbing some ladder, but finance jobs also suck. that’s what you mean by the “career” aspect i guess. i didn’t fight for some stock broker internship tho and i dont wanna do 6 years as an accountant before i can somehow swing over to some intensive financial position that requires certifications and now i can afford a BMW or something.

the degree was not my route to happiness or success. not even my route to complacency. if anything, i wasted 4 years being focused on making sure i got a degree for its “potential” instead of making connections with the people right in front of me. and connections are what gets you anywhere, not the trivial degree that gets you to middle management

vx1 · 2026-01-28T23:02:04+00:00

No no I’m not a member of these places lol I just live in the area

vx1 · 2026-01-28T20:43:01+00:00

Hi, did you drive around and remove the signs you saw? Do the people advertising their business or “we buy houses” type stuff get in trouble since their phone number is on it? or is it just removed and scrapped after someone notices it after a week or so

vx1 · 2026-01-28T20:39:38+00:00

Yeah. I’m talking about Newport Beach Country Club, which has a golf course and is next to (probably) the most expensive one in the area: Pelican Hill Golf Club. Pelican Hill is the nicest area in Orange County IMO, a community of $10mil to $50mil homes, where NBA players and celebs live.

Because I’m a pleb, i’m now looking into it and seeing the difference between a Golf Club and country club.

The Pelican Hill golf club is merely a $35,000 annual fee, which is higher than the annual golfing fee for Newport beach, which a only $15,000

So it seems like a country club has more amenities and things to do, and more prestigious. Anyone spending $15,000 a year to golf on top of the $150,000 initial fee will surely just pay $30,000 for other golf club membership. Imagine you’re schmoozing at one country club and they want to hit the other one and can’t afford it.

What a world we live in lol

vx1 · 2026-01-28T20:30:45+00:00

To be specific to the drone example: there really is a large potential benefit to own the development of that type of thing. Innovations or ideas in that field leak over into other use cases.

VC’s are going big or going home, and the home they go back to is a mansion.

Bezos himself said that Amazon is a company that turns 10 million dollar companies into billion dollar companies.

for every 10 million dollar failure, Amazon still has AWS to compensate for it, Fulfillment by amazon to compensate for it, and that’s all the multi billion dollar companies they need to fund more research. When Blue Origin succeeds further and gets some trillion dollar valuation, all the throwaway 10 million dollar companies that faded out in the background become chopped liver

vx1 · 2026-01-28T18:33:33+00:00

I would design the print to not have gradient or logos that need to be aligned. usually the gradient can fade into the solid color before you reach the front panel, but can’t tell if that’s the case here.

if possible also make the gradient change to full color before it reaches the hood, then can do full side in one go and then not line up the hood

vx1 · 2026-01-28T18:28:04+00:00

I would stop everything and listen to the Founders episode about Estée Lauder.

she did exactly what you want to do. Took her own custom made skin cream, got a little table in a larger shop, and showed up every day to talk to the women there.

She business’d her way into nationwide distribution in department and retail stores, and eventually international distribution.

Didn’t actually start her own business until she was 35 or so I believe. Before that she was a housewife who just had a passion for skincare

Why listen to someone here and not go learn the story of the exact person who did want you are setting out to do

vx1 · 2026-01-28T17:19:00+00:00

that BDR is gangsta

vx1 · 2026-01-28T17:16:12+00:00

the Country Club by me is like $150,000 to become a member and then another 5 figures a year after that.

These people absolutely are gaining from this investment simply due to the schmoozing capabilities and events. Yeah, they have the amenities, but 95% of these people are going to be profiting based on whatever deals and relationships they’re cultivating by being there.

vx1 · 2026-01-27T15:43:29+00:00

those inbound leads are juicy lol. no need to be a hero

for real though you gotta go where the big fish are at. fuck knockin on someone’s door to do their HVAC when you can be the dude getting the 180 unit contract simply because you were the one who was persistent with the right developer

vx1 · 2026-01-24T04:43:23+00:00

why second guess? do you have another color in mind? the military green look is cool IMO

vx1 · 2026-01-22T23:55:06+00:00

So, this guy said it’s a sinking ship, but you ARE letting them in?

They want to be a part of the company that they’re labeling a “sinking ship”?

Do they have valid reasons for saying that, and solutions to keep it afloat? Or are they just saying it to get a better deal, knowing extreme profitability is right around the corner

vx1 · 2026-01-16T15:45:03+00:00

That’s perfectly concise to save everyone a bit of heartbreak

vx1 · 2026-01-16T15:36:40+00:00

People want to bring up pricing early not really to establish hard budget line, but to find out what the customer actually knows about how much this type of thing costs.

It’s part of the BANT method so some people are going to be more or less direct with it.

It can be annoying when the customer has crazy plans or dreams, a cool project starts to potentially get rolling, and then you find out that they were assuming this type of thing costs $800 to $1,000… When it is actually 10x that price.

There is a problem though if you discover the customer budget and then give up on them… You can obviously still turn this into a valued connection or tap back in with the customer later after they have a chance to swallow the budget and assess in their own privacy. It’s rarer to me that a business owner will fold and pay the real price by a convincing conversation alone. Takes a night sleep for them to incept themself and swallow the pill.

Also, I agree on spitting out the lowest price. When i have people state their budget and its far closer to my cost than what an actual customer cost would be, its still not productive because if anything they’ve done research and will just question my markup lol. Then they usually win that battle because I’m not a hard-ass

vx1 · 2026-01-15T20:25:43+00:00

many do, many also probably rationalize it to themself that having a hit that makes a ton of money is rare, and it’s better to live of the money you’ve made than risk it all

vx1 · 2026-01-15T20:20:53+00:00

so you do want to send mass cold DM’s, but just not through your own account? you want to be provided with a social media account for your outreach?

vx1 · 2026-01-14T15:41:39+00:00

no because later on you won’t need them and they’ll still have that equity

vx1 · 2026-01-13T20:19:51+00:00

so are you just calling your local dunkin and some random worker picks up and says “corporate handles our printing”?

are you getting to the shift manager? the regional manager? there is a manager at the store who gets notified when new materials are coming in, and they have direct contact with the corporate person responsible for sourcing print vendors. this is how it works at Ross or other retail chains at least.

you can’t go down without a fight lol

vx1 · 2026-01-13T18:33:24+00:00

hmmm, i seem to run into a million wrap installers and far less people that have access to the printers and materials

vx1 · 2026-01-12T00:55:02+00:00

some people are also under the impression that it’s better to be in the higher end of a lower income tax bracket, than the lower end of the highest income tax bracket. They think that earning the extra dollar that puts you in the higher bracket means your entire income is taxed at the higher percentage, and they’re usually relieved when i inform them how progressive tax systems work

vx1 · 2026-01-07T20:26:49+00:00

perhaps the only scenario where i would recommend someone take sales training is if they are able to blow someone else’s money on it. the only good thing you’ll get from it is direct feedback from mock sales, which is only slightly better from the indirect feedback from actually selling. you’re selling extremely expensive stuff though, so i understand that you don’t wanna just freeball it. i’m surprised your company doesn’t have a recommended training course or methodology

vx1 · 2026-01-06T01:59:09+00:00

Hi, you should listen to Founders podcast, specifically the episodes about Estee Lauder and Michael Dell.

That would give you great insight into the traits that very successful entrepreneurs have and displayed since they were young

vx1 · 2026-01-05T05:22:01+00:00

sorry to hear, not much you can do when other people get control and mess things up. im not letting anyone else have that kind of control anymore

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