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> It's also the constant stream of digital nomad influencers on Twitter who sell extremely distorted, rosy, and often times false dreams to indie entrepreneurs
by rapind 4y ago
> It's also the constant stream of digital nomad influencers on Twitter who sell extremely distorted, rosy, and often times false dreams to indie entrepreneurs like myself. They make it seem like building a successful startup is easy and anyone can do it with the right mindset and a few key tips.
This is just startup porn. It’s the same in any category (make money flipping houses!, crypto!, etc.) As a rule of thumb, assume 99% of influencers are full of shit. Stay off instagram.
Running a business is definitely hard. I don’t think it’s for everyone. You need to handle failure, long hours, lack of balance, and disappointment in a sort of irrational way. Kind of like a fanaticism / religion of self. Ultimately it’s probably not healthy!
I don’t recommend persevering due to FOMO. See if working for others scratches the itch so you have something to compare it to.
- moooo99 4y ago> This is just startup porn. It’s the same in any category (make money flipping houses!, crypto!, etc.) As a rule of thumb, assume 99% of influencers are full of shit. Stay off instagram. This 100x! Many of the big influencers in these indie/startup/productivity niches seem to earn a lot of money at first sight. If you look deeper, a lot of these influencer seem to be making a lot of money from courses they are selling instead of operating the business they sell courses about.
- tiffanyh 4y agoWould you mind naming who specifically you would put into that group? E.g. Would you put Pieter Levels into that category?
- KETpXDDzR 4y agoMy all time favorite is Robert T. Kiyosaki's book "Poor dad, rich dad". Pretty much everything he teaches about financial success is fiction. In reality he worked a regular 9 to 5 job, failed at starting his own business, and finally made money by selling this book and providing seminars.
- rchaud 4y agoJust looked at his Twitter. Seems like he's gone off the deep end and is now grifting like Alex Jones. Posts about Fauci, woke liberals, FBI + KGB working in cahoots....pathetic, really.
- ipaddr 4y agoPathetic to have different political opinions? Is that where some of us has landed. Anyone speaking against my own views are pathetic worthless and worthy of scorn? Then you wonder why society has divided into culture wars and why so much hate exists in the world.
- samtho 4y agoIt’s one thing to have viewpoints, there are a lot of traditionally conservative ideals that have value, but, like many things, become a nightmare scenario when taken to the extreme. I think the “pathetic” comment is aimed at the fact that if you’re running with the Alex Jones camp, you’re not really on planet earth anymore.
- bencorman 4y agoWatching an unwell person publicly spiral into paranoia and conspiracy-obsession and then calling that a "different political opinion" is a pretty bizarre take.
- jacquesm 4y agoPossibly not when you share those opinions and are into conspiracy and paranoia yourself. Plenty of people like that, unfortunately.
- jokethrowaway 4y agoNot familiar with this author and which particularly views he shared - but between COVID passport, COVID being human made, Fauci funding COVID and the FBI paying to hide Hunter Biden's laptop, conspiracy theories are being more accurate than mainstream news.
- trogdor 4y agoI’ll teach you to become rich by teaching other people to become rich by teaching other… It’s charlatans all the way down. I am a fairly successful YouTuber, and the same thing exists in my space. It pains me to see the YouTube gurus out there, fleecing people of their money by selling them dreams. Dreams they themselves have not achieved. Beware of anyone who is selling risk-free shortcuts to hard work. They also go by a different, less appealing name: get rich quick schemes.
- ericmcer 4y agoIt's the same way many startups make products that they sell to other tech companies.
- Existenceblinks 4y agoAnd the ones that make money whose products sold to those "I bought shits from this popular guy", "I'm trendy now", too much bias.
- johdesilentio 4y agoWhat do people think of Alex Hormozi in this regard?
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y agoi don't understand why people fall for it. if anyone is making a killing in their business, they're not going to sell a book about how to create a killing in thay field. (a) they don't need to because they're already making a killing (b) ahy create more competition for yourself/give away your secrets? if selling your secrets nets more money than the business... then obviously it wasn't a good business
- daitangio 4y agoIn Italy we said: who knows make business, who do not teach how to make it. We have some journalists here selling courses I did not understand what business they was successful…
- neop1x 4y agoThis also applies to other fields. People also believe that it is simple to make money through day trading. There are many tiktok influencers and youtubers who portray themselves as millionaires, trading on a beach while digital nomading and giving nonsense advice. Yes, it is possible to make money day trading, but it takes a significant amount of learning, practice, patience, time, and discipline, and even then, the results are not always consistent, and it is not for everyone.
- wingworks 4y agobiaheza on YouTube makes a bunch of good videos debunking the git rich quick schemes and showing the other side of the coin. https://www.youtube.com/@biaheza https://www.youtube.com/@biaheza
- moooo99 4y agoIs he really though? I did view a bunch of his videos and realized the "Dropshipping course" for 294$. I obviously haven't watched the course, but dropshipping is basically one of the most popular "get rich quick schemes" on YouTube aside from daytrading.
- wingworks 4y agoI think he does talk about the difficulties in starting/running a drop shipping store in some of his vids. But I do agree, it add any cred that he's still trying to sell a "dropshipping course". I definitely wouldn't recommend anyone start drophipping, be it following his course or any other.
- unforeseen9991 4y agoI've been working on day trading now for just over 5 years. I even took a sabbatical for 1.5 years to fully dedicate myself to it. Still struggling to be consistently profitable. I figure it's going to take me another few years to have be in the place where I feel I can give up my other career entirely. Easily the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. Definitely right, 99% of influencers about day trading are full of shit
- zbird 4y agoI don't understand how OP could take that seriously. I can't think of anyone who has built a successful business and can trace their origins back to "I was very inspired by people on Twitter". I thought it would have been obvious that real success takes real work. "Digital influencers" are nothing more than sad people craving for attention online. Their success relies on idiots trying to mimic their "success". It's an emotional Ponzi scheme. Don't get stuck swimming in their vomit.
- kh0st 4y agoAnd you're really almost hitting the point directly - but this guy just seems to "want" to be the owner of a tech-startup, rather then someone with a good tech idea who then turns it into a successful business. Everyone is selling a dream, and people are willing to buy because they fall in love with the "idea" of the dream - I think unless I had some actually insane, never thought of tech, I would NEVER want to be a tech-startup. Everyone is trying to take advantage of you to fulfil their own dreams, ironically
- fxtentacle 4y agoThe insidious part is that these grifters make it seem as if everyone had a fair shot at the startup game, when in reality they just pretend it to make their audience of potential customers larger. My experience going to business events is that all of the startup founders who made it had parents well into the top 1% or 0.1% of the income range. That's why it's so common to raise a $100k friends and family seed round and not even feel worried about losing it all. If OP wasn't privileged enough, he/she might be doing everything correctly, but the results without a $100k megaphone will be very different.
- p1esk 4y agoWho are these “influencers” everyone is talking about? Never once in my lifetime I have ever heard anyone say “building a successful startup is easy!” WTF?
- paledot 4y agoNo, of course not. If it were easy, why would it take six payments of $24.95+S/H to teach you how to do it?
- johdesilentio 4y agoShipping and handling for a digital course? Sounds suspect but if it’s guaranteed to make me rich and put me on a beach in six months, I’m sold.
- j45 4y agoAnyone who thinks working from a beach is possible has never tried. The screen isn't always readable. And many people who sit nearby aren't working and maybe living and making memories.
- theteapot 4y agoLifeguards. Ice-cream salespeople. Pamela Anderson. FALSE!
- j45 4y agoDon’t forget about regular interruptions by the beach sales team network if you end up on a resort there part of the beach path is public access. Having done enough of the travel to paradise to work to realize for me that it doesn’t provide either with enough depth, and if I like deep experiences I should consider that.