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Sounds like a great idea, but honestly - I would never pay 250 euros[1] for attending such a conference. Good luck though, hopefully I'm just not your target d
by ido 16y ago
Sounds like a great idea, but honestly - I would never pay 250 euros[1] for attending such a conference.
Good luck though, hopefully I'm just not your target demographic :)
[1] for a frugal Viennese hacker aiming at ramen (knödel?) profitability, 250 euros is almost 2 weeks' living expenses.
- ahoyhere 16y agoYes, I'm very familiar with that party line... and that is part of what's keeping you down. If you want to be successful in business, you've got to learn the idea of investing for returns. 2 weeks' living expenses in exchange for the opportunity to learn from people who've made anywhere between "a very respectable living for one person" to "millions a year" seems worth it to me. You can listen to their stories. You can walk up to them. You can ask them questions. Do you really think that you're not going to see 250 euros of value for that ticket? The question of whether to go to a conference, or spend money on a professional designer, or hire an assistant, or outsource some copywriting, or a lawyer... they are all the same question at heart. To run a successful business, you absolutely have to pay for things. End of story. You cannot do it all yourself. If you need to pay for something, and you don't have the money, you figure out how to earn more so you can pay for the thing and free yourself to earn even more money after that. Look, I don't care whether you personally come, I'm not making a profit and - more importantly - there are people lining up for that ticket from Denmark, France, Italy, and even Serbia. I just want you to question your assumptions so that you have a chance of succeeding.
- ido 16y agoWell, as I said I'm probably just not in your target demographic. I would like to give you one tip tho: He not only took his product from spare-time to $2 million, he's also a true mensch! I think you are using that word the way you would in Yiddish, in Austrian German referring to someone as "mensch" can sometimes actually be seen as derogatory ;)
- pistoriusp 16y agoI was also confused by a friend who came back from New York and referred to someone as a mensch. It means human being or person in German.
- ido 16y agoApparently it means "whore" in Austrian slang [1]. I'm not a native Austrian, but was told several years ago by a friend that I shouldn't use that word as people might misunderstand what I meant by it... Might be a Tyrol thing tho. [1] http://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/Mensch.html http://www.dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/Mensch.html
- ahoyhere 16y agoUm, sure that's not somebody pulling somebody's leg? The slogan for DM is "Hier bin ich Mensch" and I'm pretty sure they don't mean "whore." If it also means "human" and "wow!" I can't see how I can go wrong. FTR, I asked my husband, who is Wiener.
- steipete 16y agoAs with many things in austria, it totally depends how you say it. Written, it means "human", "good person" in general. Only if you say it in a bad context, with slang, it means sth bad. (but not really whore... more like crazy person) "de oide is so a ménsch!" vs "er ist wirklich ein guter mensch."
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- madrobby 16y agoThe thing is, if you learn how to bootstrap a business you can easily make those 250 euros your daily expenses, without looking twice.