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LEGITIMATE REASONS FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO BE 'THE BEST THAT YOU CAN BE'.
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There are hundreds of millions of people in this world that for any number of LEGITIMATE REASONS--none of which are any fault of their own--keep them from ever even getting the chance to just start to 'be the best that they can/might be', much less have the opportunity to bring their various talents/attributes to any kind of successful fruition.
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These LEGITIMATE REASONS run the entire gamut of the 'human condition', ranging from physical, mental, psychological &/or psysiological concerns, to a vast array of of possible social, family, religious, educational, racial, governmental &/or environmental beliefs/restrictions/regulations. Other of these people, aside from possibly not having the time, money or education, may lack other skills, abilities, traits, talents, attributes or other characteristics that it would take to be successful in their
lives. Lastly, some of them may have been born with &/or are being forced to face, encounter, endure or live with any number of other possible negative situations, circumstances or obstacles that may inhibit them in some way or another.
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Due to the negative effects, in their many and varied forms and guises, resulting from any of these various 'deficiencies', any of which, either directly or indirectly, depending on how &/or to what degree these people might be affected by them, can DEFINITELY be partially or completely responsible for denying them the success that, without those 'IMBALANCES' in their lives, they may well have achieved.
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Unfortunately, due to the circumstances alluded to above, because the 'mainstream establishment' doesn't understand this 'phenomenon', they more or less shun these people, and then, not only do they never get the chance to 'be the best they can/might be', WE, AS THE FAMILY OF MAN, are denied the many benefits that they may have offered is in every realm of society imaginable.
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Tragically, these people have no recourse but to simply continue to live out their daily lives while the relentless march of time slowly but surely erases their potentially good ideas, talents and other attributes, from their memories, until eventually all of the hopes, dreams and aspirations that they may have had in their regard finally wither away and die, possibly lost for all time, along with all of the money that they could have made for investors and all of the good that they may have done for mankind.
GITIMATE REASONS WHY
SO MANY FIND SUCCESS SO DIFFICULT:
There are many LEGITIMATE REASONS WHICH HAVE KEPT A LARGE PORTION OF SOCIETY FROM HAVING, AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS,
A FAIR CHANCE TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL. These REASONS are due to the negative
effects, in their many and varied forms and guises, resulting from any number of
possible 'IMBALANCES', which through no fault of their own, are part of
their PHYSICAL,MENTAL,PSYCOLOGICAL &/OR PSYSIOLOGICAL
MAKE-UP(&/or part of comparable ones in some aspect of their personal
lives), any of which, either directly or indirectly, depending on how &/or
to what extent that they might be affected by them, can DEFINITELY be partially
or completely responsible for denying them the success that, without those
'IMBALANCES' in their lives, they may well have achieved.
Unfortunately, this is a 'PROBLEM' that hasn't as yet even been recognized as such by 'mainstream' society.
Suffice it to say here,however, that the negative effects from these 'IMBALANCES' are directly
&/or indirectly responsible for several negative 'things' in our society. .First of all, because far too many people in society are completely unaware that this problem even exists and because most of them have never experienced any of the negative 'fallout' from any of these 'IMBALANCES', they don't recognize them for what they are when they encounter them in other people, which, in turn, can cause many negative conflicts and 'misunderstandings' between them.
More importantly, the negative effects resulting from these 'IMBALANCES' are responsible for far too many people, not only being taken advantage of in a host of different ways, but
also for many of them being left out of a lot of decision making and other
related process's in all areas of society. They are also responsible for a
limitless number of entrepreneurs never getting the chance to 'showcase' their
talents and consequently, many good ideas IN EVERY REALM OF SOCIETY IMAGINABLE
never get the chance to see the light of day.
Lastly, and most importantly, I'll go so far as to say that these LEGITIMATE 'IMBALANCES' are a
lot more responsible than anybody knows/realizes/understands for our society,
dispite several centuries of trying, still being several generations behind
where it should now be in it's 'evolutionary timetable' of reaching the absolute
pinnacle of human developement!!!
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'CROWD FUNDING' CAMPAIGN:
PART 1
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BEFORE I SHARE THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF MY PROPOSED 'CROWD FUNDING' CAMPAIGN, LET ME FIRST SAY THE FOLLOWING:
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My name is Frederick Scanlin and I am a 73 year old 'geeky'/'nerdy' looking, high school educated, 'introverted', ex-army VETERAN, with a 'blah' type personality, who lives in a small apartment on the 800 dollars a month that I get from working several 'blue collar' type jobs for the last half century. I have tried my entire adult life to become a successful entrepreneur, but I haven't as yet achieved that goal due to a childhood/lifelong 'deficit disorder' type of 'malady'.
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Two of the main 'physical' 'LEGITIMATE REASONS' why I haven't as yet been successful, is that I have been afflicted since childhood with a lifelong 'attention deficit disorder' type of 'malady' that affects my concentration span, which, in turn, affects not only both my ability to attend to the details of a project and my organizational abilities, it has also negatively affected to a great degree my verbal communication abilities as well. Although having these 'disabilities', doesn't disqualify me from thinking just as well as someone without them, nor does it have anything at all to do with the potential value/worth of any of my 'ideas', they are however, needless to say, entrepreneurial traits that are indispensable to someone trying to seek funding for a venture, as well as trying to make a success of it should they get that funding.
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Because of these 'reasons', I spent most of my life living alone, while studying, researching, improving and perfecting hundreds of inventions, business and social concepts as well as documenting and proving the power/significance of certain TIMELESS, ETERNAL & INFALLIBLE principles, which haven't been given near enough credence for what they are capable of offering society(you can see them in section 3 below).
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BECAUSE THE VALUE/WORTH/VALIDITY OF EVERY IDEA THAT I HAVE EVER HAD, as well as every 'contention' that I have ever made in my entire life about ANYTHING, ARE ALL BASED ON THE SAME BASIC/ELEMENTARY/LOW-TECH 'TIMELESS & ETERNAL TRUTHS & PRINCIPLES' ALLUDED TO BELOW, IT IS ONLY NECESSARY TO DETERMINE THE VALUE/WORTH OF ONE OF MY IDEAS OR 'CONTENTIONS' in order to determine the potential value/worth of them all!!!
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Consequently, I AM GOING TO STAKE THE OUTCOME OF THE FOLLOWING UPCOMING 'CROWD FUNDING' CAMPAIGN described at the 'link' below, represent the potential value/worth/validity OF EVERY 'IDEA/CONTENTION THAT I HAVE EVER HAD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE ABOUT ANYTHING/EVERYTHING,ON THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE IN THE 'MARKETPLACE' OF A SINGLE START UP 'IDEA' THAT ALL OF THE 'EXPERTS' IN THE RETAIL SECTOR SAY WILL FAIL!!!!!
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IF THIS CF CAMPAIGN IS GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL, I can't be in charge of it as I have tried it 3 times before, AND HAVEN'T RAISED A SINGLE DOLLAR!!! I want this campaign to raise one million dollars to open 4 'model stores' in 4 different cities to show future investors that a national/global chain of these kind of stores would be a good investment opportunity.
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So if you or somebody you know would like to help me create/'manage' this 'CROWD FUNDING' campaign for me, I WILL GIVE YOU/THEM 10% of the total amount of the money that is raised, IF IT RAISES AT LEAST 10% of the target amount(this stipulation is to keep anyone who isn't totally committed from trying this), AND IF THE CAMPAIGN IS SUCCESSFUL in meeting its full 'target' amount, I WILL ALSO GIVE YOU/THEM 10% of the equity in the venture itself(which could realistically be MILLIONS)!!!
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I WILL OFFER THE SAME DEAL with regard to any of the other 'business ventures' that are described at the link below, ALL of which I would also like to 'CROWD FUND' if I can find someone out there who believes in them enough(as well as in THEIR OWN 'CROWD FUNDING' 'managerial' capabilities)to create, implement and 'manage' a CF campaign for them.
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THE FOLLOWING IS THE PREMISE OF WHAT I WANT THIS CAMPAIGN TO OFFER:
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PART 3
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GREETINGS EVERYONE:
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The reason for this crowd funding campaign is TO LAY THE BASIC GROUNDWORK / FOUNDATION FOR WHAT WILL BE IN A FEW SHORT YEARS, WITH YOUR HELP, A CHAIN OF NATIONAL/GLOBAL RETAIL STORES THAT DON'T EXIST AS YET ANYWHERE ON THE PLANET EARTH--A CHAIN OF CONVENIENCE STORES THAT I REFER TO AS THE WAL-MART OF CONVENIENCE STORES!!!!
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If you think that a national/global chain of DISCOUNT CONVENIENCE STORES that sell all 'convenience store' products/services at a price that is lower than they can be purchased anywhere else in town (as opposed to your 'status quo' type of convenience stores that sell everything at a higher price than anywhere else in town), AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE A PART OF IT, THEN I URGE YOU TO READ WHAT THIS 'CROWD FUNDING' CAMPAIGN IS ALL ABOUT(you can see a short description of this venture at the bottom of this page, and a much longer version of it on the 'Convenience Store' tab on my website at: http://discounstores.weebly.com)
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KEEP IN MIND, that the following description of how this CF campaign is going to be run is only tentative, and we can change it as we go along if it becomes necessary, but it must include the following aspects:
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By making this CF campaign as FAIR, OPEN, HONEST AND TRANSPARENT as any that you will ever encounter at any time or anywhere on any CF site, it is my intention, that , TOGETHER AS A 'TEAM', we can make this venture, AS WELL AS ALL OF THE OTHERS DESCRIBED BELOW, COMPLETELY SUCCESSFUL ONES!!
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We can do this by realizing that both the time for the 'disruption' of the 'status quo' in many areas of society is long overdue, and by utilizing 'out-of-the-box' type of thinking to properly discern those times and opportunities when its necessary to question not only the 'status quo', but also the multitude of other 'experts' and 'naysayers' out there who say that something either can't be done or that there is no better way of doing it than the ways its being done now.
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IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE, I AM GOING TO SOMETHING WITH THIS 'CROWD FUNDING' CAMPAIGN that, to my knowledge, has never been done before, WHICH IS: To prove to the 'naysayers' of the world who say that it can't be done, that a 'START UP' (if done properly) can be successful even though it might have millions of silent/inactive ''consultants' participating in its growth.
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The success of this venture will validate the following things, not the least of which is, if this campaign is successful, it will not only be the beginning of a very successful national/global 'Brick & Mortar' chain of Discount Convenience Stores (THE WAL-MART OF CONVENIENCE STORES), it will also finally be providing me with the 'peace of mind' in the final years of my life, of knowing whether or not the 'ideas' and principles that I have sacrificed a lifetime of denying myself everything for, are as good as I believe them to be.
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Although I am, by my own admission, PERSONALLY unqualified to be the one in charge of making a success out of any of the 'start up' ventures that I HAVE SPENT A LIFETIME researching, the following, what I refer to as TIMELESS, ETERNAL & INFALLIBLE TRUTHS & PRINCIPLES, are the key to the successful implementation of EVERYTHING that is described here and on my website. They will definitively SUBSTANTIATE MY CONTENTION that all of the ventures listed below and on my website, can become very successful ones, even though I am not PERSONALLY qualified to be the one in charge of bringing them to fruition!!!!
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Although we could start out with this venture by just opening a single 'model store', it is my intention to open 4 'model stores' in 4 different towns in order to prove to any naysayers and/or potential investors that might say I just got lucky with a single successful store, simply because it happened to be in a good location and in the right part of town.
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I would also like to hire a small camera crew to 'document' from start to finish, everything connected with this venture for the following LEGITIMATE REASONS:
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1) Possibly sell it to a TV network &/or use it as the premise for a new kind of TV 'reality' show.
2) Use it as a promotional aid to secure funding for national/global expansion.
3) Use it to help 'prove' that the that the 'legitimate reasons' that I contend are responsible for a lot of well deserving, would-be entrepreneurs never becoming successful, are indeed LEGITIMATE and not simply 'excuses'
4) Because this venture, and it's implementation process, goes against all 'conventional' wisdom, it will help validate my contention that the 'status-quo' can no longer be held up as the unquestioned standard by which, IN EVERY SECTOR OF SOCIETY, the who/what/when/where and how of the way things are to be viewed/carried out from here on in!!!
5) Because all of my 'ideas' for anything/everything in this life are all based on the same TIMELESS, ETERNAL & INFALLIBLE Truths, Values and Principles, the success of this venture will help serve as 'proof' of their potential value to society--IN OTHER WORDS, if a 73 year old man who has been considered a 'loser' his entire life is all of a sudden able to create what looks like it may well become a multi-billion dollar a year company(making him one of, if not the oldest person, to ever start with nothing at that age and accomplish this 'feat')with the credit for doing so being a result of employing certain TIMELESS & ETERNAL Truths, Values and Principles (NOT THE LEAST OF WHICH IS BRINGING ALL OF YOU 'ON BOARD' AS PARTNERS/CO-FOUNDERS!!!), then there just might be something to them!!
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If this 'CF' campaign is successful in acquiring the necessary funding to open the 4 'model stores', and they are as successful in the 'marketplace', as I am sure they will be, I would then like to expand them nationally and then globally.
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People, if you have ever wanted to get in on the ground floor of something BIG, then this could well be the only chance in your life that you may ever have the opportunity to do so. If these ventures are as successful as I know they can be, I have the premise of several 'social' type ventures that TOGETHER AS A TEAM, we can do something with them to literally CHANGE THE WORLD (see a short description of this at the end of this page, as well as on my other website at: http://cureforusa.weebly.com.
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People, this venture could well be THE NEXT BIG THING in the retail industry, and WE have the opportunity here to MAKE 'CROWD FUNDING' HISTORY by, among other things, making this the biggest funded campaign that has happened so far in the relatively new field of 'crowd funding'--A field that I firmly believe within the next few years will become the biggest funding source in the entire world for both 'start ups' and small business expansion. If you feel as I do about this venture's potential for success, then let’s do whatever we have to do to make this campaign a resounding success!!!!
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Be sure to mention this campaign on all of your social sites and do anything else you can think of to get the word out, and be sure TO GIVE A BIG 'SHOUT-OUT' ABOUT THIS WEBSITE TO EVERYONE YOU CAN.
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BELOW is a brief description of the 'start up' that this CF CAMPAIGN is attempting to raise money for, and which a much longer description for can be seen by clicking on the link 'DISCOUNT CONVENIENCE STORES' on the 'menu' of this website.
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Keep in mind that EVERYONE who contributes $20.00 or more to this campaign will qualify for the following 'perks' in addition to any of the others that you may qualify for:
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IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE, I AM GOING TO SOMETHING WITH THIS 'CROWD FUNDING' CAMPAIGN that, to my knowledge, has never been done before, WHICH IS: To prove to the 'naysayers' of the world who say that it can't be done, that a 'START UP' (if done properly) can be successful even though it might have millions of silent/inactive ''consultants' participating in its growth.
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So everyone who contributes $20 dollars or more to this campaign, will, in addition to getting the 'perks' earned from the size of their contribution, also AUTOMATICALLY BECOME TEMPORARY UNOFFICIAL 'CONSULTANTS' in it, and then all of those who care to, can:
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1)post any of their ideas, comments, thoughts, criticisms on how to make this venture a success, as well as THEIR ideas for the design of a website that can accommodate all of the discussions and other 'interactions' that will take place with regard to this venture during this campaign and until it becomes a success.
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2)they can submit the name that they think would be the best one for this chain of global stores, which will be voted on by the contributors.
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3)those who care to, can submit their 'resume' to be on the 'team' that will be in charge of taking this venture to the national/global level when the time comes--the contributors to this campaign will vote on who these people will be.
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4)those who contribute to this campaign will be first in line to purchase shares in this venture when the time comes.
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5)those who contribute to this campaign will be first in line to purchase a 'franchise' on one of these stores when they become available in your area.
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6)At the end of the campaign, the 3 people who have directed the most number of contributors to this campaign, as well as the 3 people voted by all of the contributors to have done the best job of promoting/advancing this campaign, will each receive 1% of the total amount of money that is raised(after mandatory expenses are subtracted), WHICH COULD EASILY BE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS EACH, AND IF IT IS FULLY FUNDED, IT COULD WELL BE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS EACH!!!!
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PART 3
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If no DEFINITIVE fallacies of a significant nature can be found in any of the Truths, Principles & other general observations posted below, they have the realistic potential to virtually revolutionize the way 'NEW' BUSINESS 'START UP' VENTURES(that don't utilize any new or untested technology to make them fully 'functional' business enterprises)are 'discovered' &/or considered for funding, AS WELL AS dramatically increasing their success rate!!!
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THERE ARE CERTAIN UNIVERSALLY INFALLIBLE IDEALS, VALUES, TRUTHS & PRINCIPLES THAT ARE TIMELESS & ETERNAL IN THE LOGIC, INSIGHT & KNOWLEDGE THAT THEIR PROFOUND WORDS OF WISDOM IMPART TO THE HUMAN RACE. They are unique in the universe in that they transgress time, space, race, creed, color, religions, cultures, gender, sexual preference and all other areas of human endeavor.
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I have gleaned and culled several dozen parables, precepts, platitudes, axioms, insights, adages, truisms, sayings, quotations and other general observations from the thousands that I have encountered over the last several decades, all of whose basic premise's are based on the ideals/values/truths/principles alluded to above(some of which, when I felt it appropriate, I took the liberty to update &/or paraphrase to make them adaptable to modern times)--a few of them are listed below, and the rest can be found on my website at: (http://discounstores.weebly.com).
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Although many of these adages/axioms/quotations, etc. may seem blatantly obvious and others laughingly simple on the surface, the proper 'discernment' will show that they contain within the much deeper meaning that they are meant to impart, certain profound 'words of wisdom', that are ETERNALLY TIMELESS & VIRTUALLY INFALLIBLE in all areas of human endeavor, and thus IF HEEDED TO THE MAXIMUM & STEADFASTLY ADHERED TOO, THEY WILL VIRTUALLY GUARANTEE THE SUCCESS OF ANYTHING THAT IS BASED ON THEM!! A FEW OF THEM ARE LISTED BELOW, AND THE REST OF THEM FARTHER DOWN THIS PAGE:
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FIRST OF ALL, because ours is not a perfect world, countless people with ‘ideas’ for promising new products/services/businesses in every realm of human endeavor, don't have all of the necessary qualities/attributes/expertise to make their ‘ideas’ a success, and conversely, there is vast pool of eager, hungry ‘entrepreneurs’ out there, who, although they might not be able to come up with a good ‘idea’ for anything if their life depended on it, do have, collectively among them, every skill, trait, ability, talent, attribute characteristic or other expertise that it would take to bring to successful fruition any kind of an ‘idea’ that anyone could possibly come up with in any realm of human endeavor whatsoever.
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The above 'scenario' is a 'paradox' of sorts, in that the potential value/worth of an 'idea' for a proposed 'start up' business venture(or, an 'idea' for anything else, for that matter)is in no enhanced or diminished by either the physical/mental/emotional 'makeup' of the person who originally came up with that 'idea', or whether or not they can't, won't, aren't qualified/interested in doing anything with/about that 'idea'!!!
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If, on an individual basis, you can't find any significant 'fallacies' in the above statement, if they were combined into a single 'unit'/venue of some kind, wouldn't the entire 'start-up community' significantly benefit in all of the following few ways:
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1) Many good 'ideas' for 'start ups' will emerge from the minds/imaginations of 'unqualified founders' that otherwise would never have 'seen the light of day'.
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2)many talented 'wanna-be entrepreneurs' that aren't using their talents because they can't come up with a good 'start up idea' of their own, will now have a possible way out of that needless'trap'.
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3)rather than missing out on countless, potentially successful 'start ups' simply because their 'founders, for whatever reason, can't, won't or are incapable/unqualified of making them a success, you can do the much more sensible thing of assembling from the above mentioned vast pool of talented entrepreneurs, a hand-picked, 'tailor-made 'team' for that venture who have all of the EXACT qualifications that you need (and in the exact degree of expertise required) in order to give that venture THE ABSOLUTE BEST CHANCE IN THE WORLD TO HAVE EVERY POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL??
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4) a whole new world of investment possibilities would now be open to 'start up' investors, in that they will no longer have to limit their search for promising new 'start up' business ventures to only those whose founders must BOTH come up with the 'idea' for it, and also must PERSONALLY have the necessary expertise to make it a success as well---THEY CAN NOW, IN MANY CASES, DO THE MUCH EASIER/WISER THING AND SIMPLY LOOK FOR PROMISING 'START UP IDEAS' THAT ARE ONLY LACKING A QUALIFIED MANAGEMENT TEAM IN ORDER TO BECOME A SUCCESS, AND 'ASSEMBLE' ONE FROM THAT VAST POOL OF QUALIFIED ENTREPRENEURS ALLUDED TOO ABOVE!!!
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KEEPING IN MIND THEN, THAT, in basically the same way that ALL of the words & phrases of our ENTIRE English language are formed simply by 're-arranging' in an infinite number of different ways, the FINITE 26 letters of our alphabet..............:
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IN A SIMILAR FASHION, ALL 'NEW' BUSINESS 'START UP' VENTURES that don't need any new or unproven technology to make them fully 'functional' business enterprises, ARE ONLY 'NEW' in the sense that the various presently existing technologies that make them up, simply have never before been arranged/'put together' in exactly the particular way/shape/manner or form that is now necessary for them to be, in order that they are able to take on the look, feel and other features/'characteristics' of THE 'NEW' START UP VENTURE that they are to become!!!.
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THEREFORE, because creating a new 'start up' venture of this kind is basically just an exercise in simply re-arranging whatever presently existing technology is necessary in order to make it the required functioning business enterprise envisioned by the founders and described by it's business model, it's 'management team' will require only a finite number of existing 'skill sets'(whose number and type can be determined by simply checking those utilized in comparable successful start up' ventures)in order to successfully implement it into the 'marketplace'.
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Therefore, even though these 'start ups' may not have a 'team' or a comprehensive 'business plan' ready to go at the time of their 'discovery', THEY HAVE JUST AS GOOD OF A CHANCE OF BECOMING A SUCCESS IF...........................................................:
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INSTEAD OF BEING LED/MANAGED BY A 'TEAM' COMPRISED OF ITS 'FOUNDERS(WHO MAY OR MAY NOT BE FULLY QUALIFIED, but are accepted anyway simply because they are it's 'founders')...................:
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IT IS LED/MANAGED INSTEAD BY A 'HAND PICKED' MANAGEMENT TEAM COMPRISED OF INDIVIDUALS SELECTED FROM THAT VAST POOL OF EAGER ENTREPRENEURS ALLUDED TOO ABOVE, WHO CAN 'THINK OUT OF THE BOX', AND ARE BOTH EXCITED & PASSIONATE ABOUT THE 'START UPS' POTENTIAL POSSIBILITIES IN THE 'MARKETPLACE', AND, WHO COLLECTIVELY AMONG THEM, HAVE WHATEVER DEGREE OF EXPERTISE THAT IS REQUIRED IN ALL OF THE VARIOUS 'SKILL SETS' THAT ARE NECESSARY TO MAKE THAT TYPE OF A VENTURE A FULLY 'FUNCTIONAL' & SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE.
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BELOW ARE A FEW OF THESE 'PRINCIPLES', and the rest can be found on my website:
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PRINCIPLES TO DRAMATICALLY INCREASES A 'START UPS' CHANCES OF SUCCESS:
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1)AVOID 'start ups' that may require the IMMEDIATE establishment of any expensive local/regional/national 'infrastructure' type facilities that is mandatory to making it a 'successfully functioning entity'!!!
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2)AVOID 'start ups' that can't pass all 'elementary' requirements of any 'respectable' SWOT analysis type evaluation'.
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3)AVOID 'start ups' that might have any significant legal type issues/matters that could indefinitely hold it's progress up, which can't be successfully 'adjudicated' in advance of any major investment.
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4) Even though there are now, and always will be, new or improved products &/or services that are novel, unique, sensational, spectacular &/OR unbelievable, THE SIMPLE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT, in most of these cases, there isn't either a big enough market out there who would want your product/service at any price, OR they can't be offered at a price that enough people could afford to purchase them---OR THERE is SIMPLY too much competition!!!
THEREFORE, THE FIRST & MOST IMPORTANT thing that must be considered if a proposed 'start up' is to have any reasonable chance for success, is to simply determine if there is a big enough POTENTIAL market of buyers out there, who would even want your PRODUCT OR SERVICE if it were available at a fair/reasonable price?
5)THE MANAGEMENT TEAM that is in charge of making a success of any given venture is the singularly most important 'element' in determining its success or failure--and I would add that just how successful it becomes is, in turn, directly proportional to both the amount and degree of original, 'out-of-the-box' type of entrepreneurial expertise that is possessed/exhibited by that team, AS WELL AS, their ability to properly discern which parts/aspects of the prevailing status-quo that affects their particular venture in any way, that they will no longer accept/hold up as being the unquestioned way that the who, what, where, when and why of how they will do things to insure the success of their venture!!
6)Problems can be solved much quicker/easier/cheaper/better, if, rather than looking for its solution (and not the solution to any of its many possible negative results) by advancing forward from its present one, instead 'retreat' backward from the absolutely best possible solution to it (if anything were possible, no matter how ridiculous it may sound/be), until they come together in the best of all possible/economically feasible solutions to it, that can be implemented within the limits of existing knowledge & technology.
7) If a company is going to survive, remain competitive and continue to proliferate in the harsh and uncertain environment of today’s ever-changing global economy, they must at all times be consciously aware of APATHY, COMPLACENCY AND UNAWARENESS, which must, in their many direct, indirect and ripple-down forms and guises, be avoided like the plague--not to do so can & will have devastating effects. Also they must have it be an integral part of their 'business model' to, AT ALL TIMES, be consciously aware of the importance of being constantly vigilant to the subtle and ever changing social/political/economic 'landscape' and be able, at a moment’s notice', to adjust/change/PIVOT their company's direction to adapt to & accommodate these changes.
8)Lastly, it must always be properly, carefully and thoroughly searching out/being n the lookout from across the entire spectrum of all business ‘disciplines’ for:1) ANYTHING from which the premise, concept or principle upon they are based, can be successfully ‘adjusted’, adapted and then ‘transferred’ for successful utilization in other areas that may possibly be of interest/benefit to them;2)ALL INNOVATIVE COST & LABOR SAVING MEASURES, as well as any other SALES PRODUCING &/OR ENHANCING METHODS which might be successfully utilized in some way or another.
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If no significant 'fallacies' can be found in the 'principles' described in this email, then WHAT FORM OF LOGIC, RATIONALE OR COMMON SENSE would possibly keep an investor from at least checking into a promising 'start up' with the many positive factors that mine claims to have, as described below
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PART 4
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I have been trying for the last 7 years to find investors for the 'start up' venture described below, but NONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF 'EXPERTS' in the VC INDUSTRY that I have contacted think that the 'start up' described below is even worth checking out/looking into, much less having the wisdom/insight to see that it has the realistic chance to be 'THE NEXT BIG THING' in retail(especially considering the state of our present economy which isn't going to get much better anytime in the near future).
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Therefore, in addition to attempting to make this venture a success with this CF campaign, I am also going try and prove(or disprove)that these TIMELESS & ETERNAL TRUTHS, PRINCIPLES & KNOWLEDGE ARE AS VALUABLE AS I CONTEND THAT THEY ARE WHEN IT COMES TO HAVING A BIG PART IN THE SUCCESS OF 'START UP' VENTURES!!!
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BECAUSE THIS 'START UP' VENTURE REPRESENTS THE POTENTIAL VALUE/WORTH OF EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE EVER CONTENDED IN MY ENTIRE LIFE ABOUT EVERYTHING, and BECAUSE IT, AS WELL AS ALL OF MY OTHER 'IDEAS' & CONTENTIONS, ARE ALL BASED ON THESE SAME TIMELESS & ETERNAL TRUTHS, PRINCIPLES & KNOWLEDGE, if, IN SPITE OF ALL OF THE NEGATIVE THINGS THAT THE 'EXPERTS' SAY ABOUT THIS 'START UP', it nevertheless becomes as successful as I contend that it can be, THEN THERE IS A VERY REALISTIC CHANCE that these TIMELESS & ETERNAL TRUTHS & PRINCIPLES may indeed have the 'POWER' to guarantee the success of any 'START UP' that is based on them!!!!!!!
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A NATIONAL CHAIN OF DISCOUNT CONVENIENCE STORES:
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If you 'google up' the top 100 most expensive Venture Capital backed 'start ups' THAT ENDED UP GOING 'BELLY UP', NONE OF THEM HAD MORE THAN 5 OUT OF THE TEN 'MANDATORY QUALIFICATIONS' ON MY LIST OF THINGS(see below) THAT MUST BE ADDRESSED IN SOME POSITIVE MANNER IN THEIR 'BUSINESS MODEL', BEFORE A 'START UP' IS TO CONSIDERED FOR INVESTMENT!!!!!
If you will just read the premise of the above referenced 'start ups', it is almost impossible to believe THAT SOMEBODY WOULD ACTUALLY INVEST so many millions of dollars in 'start up' ventures with such 'weak business models'!!!!
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After working for 7 years in a store like the one described below(which was very successful until it was forced to close up to a bitter divorce between the husband and wife owners)AND CONSIDERING THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS, IT IS MY CONTENTION that there exists in this country, and possibly even worldwide, a vast potential market in the retail sector of our economy for a chain of NEIGHBORHOOD DISCOUNT CONVENIENCE / MINI-GROCERY STORES that sell convenience store products & services, as well as a few dozen other key food/grocery items, at prices REASONABLY CHEAPER than they can be purchased anywhere else.
POSITIVE ASPECTS RELATED TO THIS VENTURE:
1) The operation from which I originally got the idea of opening a chain of full service convenience stores- which would sell all of its products/services at discounted prices- operated profitably for 7 years until it was forced to close down due to a bitter divorce between the husband and wife owners.
2) It is extremely 'low-tech'.
3) It is based strictly on proven concepts/premises.
4) It can become profitable in as little as 3 or 4 months.
5) It has universal need/appeal.
6) It is highly scalable.
7) It is relatively inexpensive to finance.
8) With the dismal present economic situation(and no relief in sight)never has the time and opportunity ever been more conducive for a chain of stores like these.
9) Because of its universal appeal, it will only be necessary to open a handful of these stores in order to get a solid indication of how successful they would be if expanded on a national/global basis.
10) It fills a potential multi-billion dollar a year ignored/unmet 'niche' it's sector of the marketplace whose basic concept/premise has eluded the best entrepreneurial minds in that sector, as a thorough search of the internet confirms that THERE AREN'T ANY OTHER STORES LIKE IT ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH!!!!!
11) Lastly, these stores are tailor made to utilize the territorial method of franchising, which the early pioneers of franchising utilized so effectively in the early 1950's, that they were able to manage 1500 units with only a handful of executives in the home office!!! The beauty of this method is that the franchisee not only pays a big upfront 'fee' for his exclusive territory (city, county, state or multi-state territories), but he also pays for all the costs to open and operate all of the units in his territory!!!
A very wise proverb from antiquity succinctly says: "NO POWER ON EARTH CAN STOP AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME". Without exception, all of the current relevant economic indicators point to the fact that our society is on the verge of ushering in the birth of a new GLOBAL ECONOMIC MODEL, whose direct, indirect and 'ripple-down' effects, ramification, repercussions, consequences and implications, will, by necessity, mandate that the American people will have to make certain changes in their current lifestyles, as well as make other concessions in areas of their lives that, up till now, they have simply taken for granted.
Having said that, never in modern history have the TIME, OPPORTUNITY AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ever concurrently come together in such perfect alignment as to virtually guarantee the success of starting up a nationwide chain of retail stores based on the concept/premise of the ones described on the website alluded to above. The complete absence of a retail chain of stores like this one leaves big empty void in this segment of the retail market that can be successfully exploited by someone with the wisdom and foresight to see it for the virtually unlimited ground floor opportunity that it is.
The only segment of the economy that has shown double digit growth for the last several years has been in the DISCOUNT sector of retail, and yet the convenience store business is the only retail sector of the economy that hasn't as yet gone DISCOUNT in some form or another, because, for whatever reason ‘convenience store’ & ‘discount’ are just two things that have never been associated with each other. The main reason for this is that anyone who may have thought about it never looked past the several daunting surface problems standing in the way of how one might profit from selling convenience store products/services at discounted prices. After working for the guy who owned the ‘prototype’ store from which I got this idea for opening up a national/ global chain of them, I was able to successfully discern the reasons why conventional convenience stores couldn’t sell for discounted prices and how these reasons might be overcome.
Despite what you believe &/or what the government is telling you, the economy of this country is NEVER AGAIN going to be able to sustain any kind of long term growth, UNTIL THOSE LEGIONS OF GREEDY/EMPTY-HEADED/CRY-BABY/SELF-CENTERED BUFFOONS that we have elected to represent us in Washington begin to use logic/facts/truth/common sense when devising and implementing the laws that affect all of us in every segment of our society!! Although the following business venture will be just as successful in a good economy, it sure doesn't hurt to have its beginning in an economy that will virtually guarantee its success.
Conservatively, there is a potential market worldwide to support 30-50 thousand stores of this kind, with each doing in the vicinity of 2 million dollars a year in gross sales, thereby making this a potentially 50-100 billion dollar a year business!!! Therefore, based on the 7 year success of my friend’s store as well as my own observations of the industry for those years, it is my contention that there exists in this country, and possibly even worldwide, a vast potential market in the retail sector of our economy for a chain of NEIGHBORHOOD DISCOUNT CONVENIENCE / MINI-GROCERY STORES that sell convenience store products & services, as well as a few dozen other key food/grocery items, at prices REASONABLY CHEAPER than they can be purchased anywhere else.
It is also my firm belief that if we seize this moment in time, where EVERY RELEVANT factor affecting it, both economic and otherwise, are in such perfectly synchronized alignment, it is easily within the realm of realistic possibility that this retail concept will appeal to a large enough segment of the cost conscious consumer to generate the kind of volume that will be necessary to successfully overcome its slim profit margin and allow it to sustain the projected rate and extent of growth in order for it to achieve, in less than a decade, the same kind of phenomenal success in its sector of the retail marketplace that has taken WAL-MART 60 years to do in theirs!!!
Having said the above, I believe in my heart, mind, body and soul, that, with the PROPER LEADERSHIP, this chain of stores-which in the light of our new GLOBAL ECONOMY- will be ones that the public WON'T BE ABLE TO AFFORD NOT TO SHOP AT!!!!
It is extremely rare that a definitive determination of the chances for SUCCESS of a business opportunity of this magnitude can be decided for the relatively small amount of money that it will cost to determine this one. Because the basic premise for this venture is one of universal want/need/appeal it will only be necessary to open up half dozen or so units/stores to get a definitive idea on how others that might be opened will fare.
I read routinely about promising new business ventures without half the potential of this one on which millions of dollars have been spent that, either were ’flops’ or on which more money is still needed to determine if it will even work much less whether or not any money can eventually be made on it!!!
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For a few hundred thousand dollars (maybe even less), by using the less expensive of the two ’business model’ methods associated with this venture (as opposed to the more expensive one of remodeling acceptable new storefront locations) of ’partnering’ with a business owner of an already open/operating store who is willing (for a mutually agreed upon percentage of the new business‘ ) to remodel and operate his business to our specifications, you can get a reliable idea in a few short months whether or not the concept/premise of this promising new business venture has the kind of potential that I claim it does.
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Once again, because this promising new business venture is offering a product/service that has universal want/need/appeal you can be pretty certain that whatever happens during the 6-8 month trial’ run with that store will be the same result that you will get wherever you open one up. Because there is room for at least 20,000 stores nationally and another 30-50 thousands globally you can multiply your profit/expenses for that 6-8 month trial period by this total number to get a ’ball park’ figure of the yearly revenue potential of this promising new business venture to help you decide if it is worth investing in (see a longer description of this venture at the link below).
YOU CAN SEE A MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS VENTURE, AS WELL AS A LIST OF THE REST OF MY PROPOSED 'START UPS' AT THE LINK BELOW:
http://discounstores.weebly.com
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PART 5
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OTHER VENTURES TO BE 'CROWD FUNDED' IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE:
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There has never been a better time than right now in the entire history of mankind, when utilizing 'out-of-the-box' type of thinking and discernment has been more conducive to exploiting/'extracting' the absolute most out of all of its presently existing knowledge and technology.
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Remember that there will always be those 'naysayers' out there who will tell you that something "can't be done"(most of whom have some kind of a vested interest in maintaining the 'status quo'). However, unless they can provide some DEFINITIVE proof/evidence showing that it "can't be done", then if its within man's imagination, IT CAN BE DONE!!
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ALL OF THE FOLLOWING PROPOSED 'START UPS' CAN BE SUCCESSFUL IF THE 'TIMELESS, ETERNAL & INFALLIBLE PRINCIPLES' POSTED BELOW ARE NEVER DEVIATED FROM!!!
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Because all of the proposed start-up ventures listed below, ASSUMING THAT THEY HAVEN'T ALREADY BEEN 'CREATED'/MARKETED BY SOMEONE SINCE THE LAST TIME I LOOKED (all of which I intend to 'crowd fund' in the near future) are all 'low-tech' in the sense that none of them require any new knowledge/technology to make them completely 'functional', and their basic premise's are very easy to understand/comprehend by the average person.
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The one thing that stands in the way of their successful implementation is the singularly most important question that the 'founder' of any 'start up' must ask them self before that 'start up' can ever even be considered as a realistic business opportunity, AND THAT IS:
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Is there is a big enough market of potential customers out there who are willing to pay the price that I must charge them in order to cover all of the costs that it will take me to PROFITABLY make my product &/or service available to them?
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AFTER WE HAVE MADE A SUCCESS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE VENTURES, by utilizing the basic premise of the following few 'observations' and TIMELESS & ETERNAL TRUTHS & PRINCIPLES, we can TOGETHER AS A TEAM, create and implement certain social ideas, programs and institutions that can literally 'CHANGE THE WORLD':
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Because of all that there is to know in this life, in the relatively short amount of time that a person has to try and learn it all, no individual person, no matter how much fame, fortune, power, wisdom, talent, courage or other attributes that they might have, can do more than make a small dent in all that needs to be done to make this a better world. However, collectively, as THE FAMILY OF MAN, our accumulative knowledge, talents and countless other positive attributes will allow us to be able to advance society forward in 2 or 3 generations, to within an 'arms length' of reaching the absolute pinnacle of human evolution/development, and to then fulfill our ultimate destiny of being able to create the realistically 'Utopian' society as alluded too above.
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The birth/dawning of the 'computer age' opened up unprecedented and virtually unlimited possibilities for the human race with the 'spawning' of the internet and all of the other marvels that 'cyberspace' makes possible(and considering all of the obvious 'negativity' that is taking root in so many areas/sectors of our society today, it couldn't have come in a better time in our history).
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The potential of the awesome and virtually unlimited capabilities of the proper combining and utilization of both crowd sourcing and the internet provides society with something brand new in the human experience by allowing US, for the first time in the history of the world, to be able to have COMPLETE access to the unlimited benefits of the 'Wisdom Of The Crowds', via the GREATEST HUMAN RESOURCE IN THE HISTORY THE WORLD, which is of course, THE VAST POTENTIAL OF THE HUMAN MIND, which manifests itself in a myriad of different ways, not the least of which is THE LIMITLESS SUPPLY OF GOOD IDEAS, IN EVERY REALM IMAGINABLE, THAT EXISTS IN THE HEARTS, MINDS AND IMAGINATIONS OF HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF 'COMMON ' PEOPLE THE WORLD OVER.
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By simply 'surfing' the internet and checking out things like 'think tanks', innovation, technology and ANY OTHER subjects that are in any way related to advancing society forward &/or making ours a better world, ANYONE of average intelligence can easily see the immense quality and quantity of human intelligence, in EVERY REALM of existence IMAGINABLE, that exists out there in the hearts and minds of multiplied millions of people around the world!!!
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The absolutely OVERWHELMING feeling that one gets when being made aware for the very first time, of the existence of all of this 'intelligence' POSSESSED BY SO MANY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, is hard to explain, but it is indeed a very exciting/humbling/hopeful and enlightening thing to experience, especially when viewed by those people who are able to properly discern just what the potential ultimate implications of all this 'intelligence' could possibly mean if it were all properly categorized/organized/merged/linked and integrated together to form a single GLOBAL 'entity', easily capable of SUCCESSFULLY advancing the human race forward in all sectors of its existence!!!
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Imagine if you will, all that could now be possible in the world with the added help/benefit of the computer, the internet and 'social media'(and all of the many other benefits that the world of 'cyberspace' entails)--THERE IS NO LIMIT TO THE GOOD THAT COULD BE DONE IF WE COULD JUST ELIMINATE THE ONLY OTHER THING THAT HAS HELD US UP FROM CREATING THE 'UTOPIAN' SOCIETY ALLUDED TOO ABOVE, WHICH IS THE UNLIMITED LUST FOR FAME, FORTUNE &/OR POWER ON THE PART OF A RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD:
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WE, collectively, as THE FAMILY OF MAN, via the AWESOME power of 'the wisdom of the crowds', and through the proper combining and integration of our accumulative knowledge, wisdom, talent, etc. are now capable of achieving a realistically 'Utopian' society in which we can all live peacefully together in, as the amount and degree of knowledge and technology that mankind presently possesses is more than adequate enough to successfully address most of the obstacles that will need to be overcome in order for us to do so, as most of them PALE IN COMPARISON when considered in light of the almost insurmountable ones, that, even with the inhibiting effects of 'the powers that be', and without the help of the computer, internet and social media, were successfully overcome in the past in order to provide society with all of the technological wonders that it enjoys today!!!
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PART 6
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The Age Of Disruption & The
Sharing Economy:
The unanswered questions & unresolved contentions of a 74 year old aspiring entrepreneur:
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Have you ever asked yourself why you haven't ever seen anyone on the 'Shark Tank' type of 'reality' TV shows who are a low energy, introverted type person who can't verbally communicate very well, AS OPPOSED TOO high energy type people who have a 'bubbly' type personality and talk more like a professional debater than an average citizen simply trying to interest someone in their new 'idea'?? The basic premise of the answer to this question is the main reason that I contend has been responsible for me never attaining the entrepreneurial success that I believe I would have achieved had it not been for it.
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Both 'The Age Of Disruption' & 'The Sharing Economy' have simultaneously descended upon us in virtually every sector of our society, and nowhere can you see this 'phenomenon' beginning to take hold any more than it is in the business sector of our economy in general, and in the 'start up' sector of it in particular. If anything worthwhile is to come out of the following 'story' &/or it is to serve any kind of useful purpose, it will be that those who read it will have a little better UNDERSTANDING about both the contentions made here as they relate to this 'phenomenon', as well as the power that the spoken word can have on a person's life(especially that of a 'wanna-be' entrepreneur's)--namely their individual verbal communication skills/abilities.
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I need the answers to a few questions and the definitive resolution to a few of my somewhat 'hard to believe' contentions, in order to have the 'peace of mind' in the final years of my life, of knowing whether or not the SIMPLE 'ideas', principles, inventions and many other potential ventures that I have sacrificed a lifetime of denying myself everything for, are as good as I believe them to be, especially now that 'The Age Of Disruption'/'The Sharing Economy' is finally proving their potential validity/viability!!
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I have been waiting for over half a century for someone/some entity to finally see the wisdom in the basic premise/concept upon which a very successful company named ENTREPRENEUR FIRST in Great Britain is based, which is the same one that the following simple concept/premise that I have been trying UNSUCCESSFULLY for over half a century to convince the 'start up' community of it's potential benefits(the basic concept of this business premise will be is discussed in more detail as this 'story' unfolds):
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"Because ours is not a perfect world, countless people with ‘ideas’ for promising new products/services/businesses in every realm of human endeavor, don't have all of the necessary qualities/attributes/expertise to make their ‘ideas’ a success, AND CONVERSELY, there is vast pool of eager, hungry ‘entrepreneurs’ out there, who, although they might not be able to come up with a good ‘idea’ for anything if their life depended on it, do have, collectively among them, every skill, trait, ability, talent, attribute, characteristic or other expertise that it would take to bring to successful fruition any kind of an ‘idea’ that anyone could possibly come up with in any realm of human endeavor whatsoever".
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LETS GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING:
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It seemed like ages then, but I realize now that the months and years of my life(which when I was young, I thought would go on forever and never end)went by all too fast as the decades melted away, and now as I stand on the brink of my 74th year of life, I remember very clearly how it all began:
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At a somewhat early age, after several comprehensive medical exams, I was diagnosed with a genetic/hormonal 'imbalance' of some sort that results in something like a 'spontaneous mental retention' type of disorder. It was diagnosed as a minor malady that wouldn't produce any significantly observable deficiencies in my life, but would cause both my organizational skills/ability to be slightly below normal, as well as possibly limiting my verbal communication skills/abilities to a mediocre proficiency level at worst.
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As far back as I can remember I have always been a 'loner' of sorts, quiet & shy with a timid, ho-hum type of personality that society might consider not completely normal but nothing to the extreme--at least 'uncle Sam' didn't think so as I was drafted into the army at the age of nineteen for a two year stint. Up until the time I was drafted, I wasn't really that much different from the rest of the kids in the neighborhood or in the schools that I went to, other than being a little more shy/timid than most of them.
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It wasn't until I was in my late teens that I really felt that I had something inside me relative to entrepreneurism that would be with me forever. When I was in my early twenties I had several 'moments of enlightenment' as I came across several what I believe to be 'Timeless & Infallible' ideas/truths/principles/premises, as well as some 'insights' into my personal 'make-up', that all had a profound effect on my outlook on the purpose of life in general, and on the purpose of my life in particular.
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Some of the above alluded too 'epiphanies' came in the form of the lyrics to a hit song, whose melody/lyrics have kept me going all these decades, as well as from the premises of certain other 'revelations' that occurred upon realizing the significance of a few other principles, AS WELL AS certain words of wisdom that were contained in a thousand page book of famous quotes & truths entitled something like 'Words Of Wisdom From Antiquity To The Twentieth Century' that took me over 6 months to completely read.
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The song that I heard which affected me so much was a hit record around that time by Sammy Davis,Jr. , whose lyrics I have included below:
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Whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong, Whether I find a place in this world or never belong
I gotta be me, What else can I be but what I am------I want to live, not merely survive, And I won't give up this dream Of life that keeps me alive I gotta be me, The dream that I see makes me what I am-------That far-away prize, a world of success, Is waiting for me if I heed the call, I won't settle down, won't settle for less, As long as there's a chance that I can have it all------I'll go it alone, that's how it must be, I can't be right for somebody else If I'm not right for me I gotta be free, Daring to try, to do it or die, I've gotta be me.
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The 'insights' into my personal 'make up' came to me when I made an honest, heartfelt search into what, if any, entrepreneurial traits that I might possess that would give me any incentive to keep going with my quest to fulfill what I really believed was my destiny in this life as described in this story, and which is briefly, to do my part to see the fulfillment of the statement/observation posted at the top of this page.
Although I could honestly only come up with two entrepreneurial traits that I possessed which would qualify, I believe that, UNDER THE RIGHT CIRCUMSTANCES, they could overcome a host of other positive traits and possibly even be more valuable than they were. Below are the two positive entrepreneurial that I believe that I possess:
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1) I believe that I have a '6th sense' type of 'attribute' that allows me upon being made aware of certain people, places, things processes, concepts and any number of other particular 'sets of circumstances', to see them, not necessarily as they are in their present state, but rather how they might become in a new/different &/or 'expanded' way that would give them more/added value/worth/usefulness than they have now;
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2)If, in the many situations/circumstances where I am aware of what skill &/or knowledge will be necessary to successfully accomplish any given job/task/project (and know how they can best be used to successfully get the job done), it is unnecessary for these various 'attributes' to be in my actual 'possession', just as long as I can have at my disposal those people who do possess them, as I am able to successfully 'tap into' all of their experience, wisdom, talent, knowledge and expertise, AND UTILIZE IT AS IF IT WERE MY OWN!!!
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The significance of certain other 'realizations' learned around that same time, from rather insignificant, everyday occurrences, such as the ones below also had a big effect on my life:
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1)when it came to me that just a few short months before the Beatles were 'wowing' them on 'The Ed Sullivan Show'(a Sunday night variety show type program that was very popular for decades in the early days of television)when they first came to America a half century ago, they were basically THE EXACT SAME group that was playing to smaller audiences in little 'pubs' in and around London. They hadn't changed any at all as far as their look/style/music was concerned, so I realized then that it had to be simply the fact that it was the same simple concept/premise that had been 'hidden in plain sight' all the time, which materialized every time a relative unknown won a 'talent contest', and went instantly from relative obscurity to local/regional/national/global prominence without being any different than they were before fame came their way.
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If it wasn't because they had acquired their talent/knowledge/skills out of thin air, it had to be luck/chance/fate or 'marketing' that had changed them virtually overnight from an unknown local band into the biggest group in the entire world, either in the form of a better manager &/or a 'venue' of some kind to showcase their talent to the world. It followed, I reasoned, that this same 'phenomenon' is happening in every sector of human endeavor--not only were there untold numbers of people around the world who have singing and other entertainment type talent who will never have the chance to be 'famous', but the same scenario is happening in science, mathematics, medicine and every other area of human endeavor!!!
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The absolutely OVERWHELMING feeling that I got when I realized for the very first time, of the existence of all of this latent 'intelligence' POSSESSED BY SO MANY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD, is hard to explain, but it was indeed a very exciting, humbling/hopeful and enlightening thing to experience, especially when I was able to properly discern just what the potential ultimate implications of all this 'intelligence', knowledge & technology could possibly mean if it were ALL organized and then properly merged/linked and integrated together to form a SINGLE GLOBAL 'entity', that would be easily capable of SUCCESSFULLY advancing the human race forward in all sectors of its existence!!!
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Another thing that changed my outlook on the way I thought about becoming successful, is that after seeing many of my 'ideas' for simple consumer type inventions become successful products years after I had thought of them(ones which because of both their simplicity and their obvious use &/or improvement over any competition, didn't even need a 'prototype' in order to see their potential value--such as:a clip on tie;a finger nail clipper 'shield' to keep nail clippings from flying all over;a 'frisbee';a paddle with a rubber ball hooked together by a 2 foot long 'rubber-band';etc.), I came to the realization that, despite what the VC'S say about "it's the implementation of the 'idea' that counts, not the idea itself"(which they say are a "dime a dozen"), it didn't make any difference about the looks/personality/ambition/qualifications of someone who had an 'idea' for something that would make it successful--it was only the possible potential of the 'idea' itself that really made any difference at all in the beginning, if, of course, you had the money to take advantage of the situation.
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Realizing the significance of the above 'revelation', once again(as it always has whenever I read/think about a new 'idea'/concept/premise/principle of any significance in any realm of human endeavor)gave me a 'high' that no drug could ever do because it didn't dissipate in a few hours but lasted for long periods of time, depending upon the size & significance of it's potential impact upon the world.
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This 'revelation' meant that despite my various 'deficiencies' &/or without any personal expertise in the particular sector in question, if I had enough money(or the verbal skills to raise it)I could make a success of any 'idea' that I felt had enough potential to make it worth all of the time, effort & money that it might take to make it a success--all I had to do was 'hire' or 'partner' with those who had the knowledge, skills, expertise that was needed to make that venture a success. Once again however, because of my lack of verbal skills, I wasn't able to utilize this 'revelation' to my benefit any more than I could any of the others that I became aware of.
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Out of all of the thousands of quotes/statements/premises in the thousand pages of that large book alluded too above, I was able to pluck only a few dozen that I felt were both Timeless & Infallible enough in their profound 'words of wisdom' to be included on the final list(some of which, when I felt it appropriate, I took the liberty to update &/or paraphrase to make them adaptable to modern times), a few of the most important which are posted here, and the rest can be seen on my website:
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1)the following quote by the 19th century educator Horace Mann, which changed my entire life, as these words summed up to me the only true meaning to what life and it's purpose really are: "BE ASHAMED TO DIE UNTIL YOU HAVE WON SOME VICTORY FOR HUMANITY".
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2)THE QUESTION: "Why haven't all of the good things in the world that aren't impossible to do, already been done"???
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3)The Statement: There is nothing in any sector of society that wouldn't be much better off if every aspect of it were based on as much of the COMPLETE TRUTH that is possible to obtain.
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4)The 'Observation': Those who witness wrong doing, and make NO ATTEMPT to stop it, bear some degree of guilt in that wrong doing, along with the ones who actually did it!!
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Despite the fact that Horace Mann's quote gave me a purpose for my existence, it didn't take me very long to learn a very valuable lesson in life: unfortunately, even something so 'noble' as trying to win a significant 'structured' 'victory' for humanity requires a certain amount of money if it is going to have a reasonable chance to become successful--especially at the beginning when you are trying to get the groundwork/foundation/'infrastructure' in place.
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I spent the better part of my middle life trying to find a job that would allow me to save up the money that I needed to get the start that I needed to fulfill my destiny. On several occasions during those years I got together with individuals and even an organization or two whose 'commitment' to my ideals/ideas were not as 'honorable' as mine were &/or who didn't have my best interests in mind. After a few unpleasant 'associations' of this kind, I made it a rule to look only for ways to make money where I didn't have to depend on anybody except myself.
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It was during those years that I also spent much time, effort and money trying to perfect and 'sell' some of my many inventions and other business ideas that I had been working on for years, but once again, for the previously alluded to reasons that I contend are LEGITIMATE, I wasn't able to become successful in any of those endeavors either---these were in the days before the computer/internet were around, and you had to deal with the two major 'roadblocks' that existed back then, which were:1)the "not invented here" syndrome that all major companies adhered too;2)the "we don't accept unsolicited material" policy that all major companies had back then.
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I realize that there are those out there who have the exceptional verbal communication skills/abilities to be able to make a business or other type endeavor successful without having any initial funds to start with--but, in the end, these attributes are simply 'tools' that allow them to raise that exact same amount of 'seed' money that was needed to try and make that exact same endeavor successful.
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I am also aware of 'success stories' of those who started out under the most adverse of conditions and were still able to overcome all obstacles and still achieve great success(there is no better example of this than our current President Barrack Obama, who because of his charisma & verbal communication skills ONLY, was able to obtain the highest position in the free world, despite the fact that he hadn't accomplished anything of consequence in his entire life, other than being both a mediocre 'community organizer' and a state senator). I commend these people for doing something that I could never do in a million years--however, having said that and not to minimize their achievements, but, as there are in every aspect/sector of human achievement/endeavor, these 'success stories' are THE EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE.
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It never seizes to amaze me(and disappoint me as well)--although it does pretty much prove that my lack of adequate verbal skills are as legitimate as I profess them to be in regard to my lack of success--how con-men down thru the ages, simply because they have a charismatic personality &/or POLISHED VERBAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS/ABILITIES, can extort, not just ordinary people, but intelligent, sophisticated businessmen as well, out of tens of millions of dollars on bogus schemes and investment deals, some of which don't even exist!!! I, on the other hand, because I don't have a good personality or good verbal communication skills, can't even get anyone to even listen to any ideas of mine that might possibly help out many future generations of humanity to come!!
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The sad part about this whole thing is that I really don't need either one of these skills/abilities to be able to either become the best that I can be or to win any 'victories' for humanity(or to be successful at any other endeavor that I might choose to get involved with)because whether or not I possess them has absolutely nothing at all to do with whether or not these endeavors have merit or not, nor do they disqualify me from being able to think just as good as those who don't have them, it simply makes it more difficult for me to verbally get across to others my ideas, thoughts and feelings on a particular topic.
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In other words, the absence of these qualities simply causes people to make the same mistake that human beings have been making down thru the ages in every facet of human existence/endeavor, which is to equate the MESSAGE WITH THE MESSENGER---in my particular case that means EQUATING THE QUALITY OF WHAT I AM TRYING TO SAY WITH THE QUALITY OF THE WAY THAT I AM TRYING TO SAY IT!!!
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I spent the ensuing years of my life writing letters(until the PC came along, then it was emails)to anyone that I felt might be willing to help me, as well as coming up with more 'ideas' for inventions and the basic premise for dozens of 'service' type 'start up' business ventures, as well as that for many 'social' type ventures as well--not the least of which is what I honestly believe is the only possible 'solution'(or at least it's basic concept/premise is)for 'saving' our great country from becoming a 'socialist' type country within the next decade, if something isn't done soon to prevent it, which you can see at:(http://cureforusa.weebly.com). I also spent countless hours ferreting out & confirming the potential value/worth of the Timeless & Infallible Truths & Principles alluded too so many times in my writings.
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FAST FORWARD TO TODAY:
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Now that the days of my youth have long since passed away, and with the shadows beginning to lengthen ever quicker & longer for me as I enter into the twilight of my life, I am constantly haunted by the ominous words of the mournful refrain from an old country song, which keeps echoing and re-echoing in my ears as it sadly laments something to the effect that "when my life here on earth has ended, and it's my time, I would like to leave this old world with a satisfied mind".
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Unfortunately, not only won't I have anything close to a 'satisfied mind', there are no words that can adequately express the resentment and disappointment that I feel toward myself for my lack of success(even though I know it wasn't my fault)in winning any victories for humanity or accomplishing anything else of value for that matter, especially when they are all based on simple, low-tech Truths & Principles!!!!
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What a different kind of a 'song' my life might have been if I had just been lucky enough to have had a little help & understanding along the way. I find it more and more difficult with each passing day to fight off the absolute terror that threatens to overwhelm me as I envision the remaining days of my life slipping so quickly away while I just stand by helplessly and do nothing because I feel, for all practical purposes, completely powerless to do anything else to procure the help that I need to, AT LEAST, determine if I even have anything of value to leave as a legacy to prove
to mankind
that I was ever even born, lived & died in this world---much less doing anything so noble as 'winning any significant victories for humanity'.
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I realize that even under the best of circumstances, I don't have an over abundance of time left in my life, and unless something positive happens soon to change things, I know that when the time comes that I am laying on my death bed, a few moments away from eternity, my last conscious thoughts will be both of joy and sorrow.
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Joy that I was lucky enough to have been born in the greatest country on the face of the planet, and at a perfect time in it's history that I could have made a real difference. Sorrow, that I spent an entire lifetime of wasted years, trying in vain to fulfill a destiny which I may well have accomplished if I had just been able to have acquired or found someone to listen/understand/comprehend my simple 'dilemma' enough to have helped me acquire the start that would have changed the entire course of my life.
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Not only would it have changed my life, but also the lives of all those that I would have helped along the way, but who now too, must continue to 'suffer'(as must all those that they too may have also been able to help)simply because I WASN'T THERE TO HELP THEM BECAUSE THERE WAS NOBODY THERE TO HELP ME!!! .
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Rather than spending the final years of my life doing what I honestly believe to be my destiny, by DOING MY PART in laying the 'low-tech' groundwork and building the 'infrastructure' for the 'venue' which will successfully eliminate the 'obstacles' that are standing in the way of establishing a better society for all mankind, I am still wasting away these final years of my life just as I have been wasting them the previous 50 years, by still being back at the starting line where I was a half century ago, spending 12 plus hours a day writing/emailing(my only method of communication)anyone who I feel might be able to help me, by--despite their simple/obvious concept/premise--either investing in some of my hundreds of inventions, business concepts or other socially beneficial 'venues' that I have come up with over the course of my life, OR, AT LEAST, by simply providing me with any kind of DEFINITIVE reasoning/logic/proof that they aren't as valuable as I contend that they are!!!
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Now that I have given you a little background on my younger years up until the present time, I will continue this 'story', and also end it, with a copy of the email alluded too above, which is the most recent correspondence that I have been sending out to anyone who I feel might be nice/wise enough to offer me some advice &/or help in regard to the things described in it, and spelled out more completely below---IF ANYONE READING THIS 'STORY' CAN OFFER ME ANY ADVICE &/OR HELP in this regard, I would be ETERNALLY GRATEFUL TO THEM AS WELL---Basically, I just need to know if anything of a significant INFALLIBLE nature can be found in the content of any of the sentences/paragraphs in this 'story', AND IF THERE AREN'T ANY, then what can I do to try and get the absolute maximum amount of good out of them in whatever time I might have left in my sojourn here on earth??
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Dear Sir:
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My name is Frederick Scanlin and I am a 73 YEAR OLD Vietnam era Veteran who is sending out ONE LAST URGENT 'SOS'/REQUEST(to accompany the TENS OF THOUSANDS of other ones that I have already sent out OVER THE LAST HALF CENTURY, to apparently "unseeing eyes, unhearing ears, unthinking minds and uncaring
hearts")to SOMEONE/ANYONE out there who might be willing to spare a few minutes to 'mentor'/advise/help me with regard to the following few, relatively simple 'requests'.
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And so as the remaining grains of sand continue to fall relentlessly from the 'hourglass of my life', I grow weary as the passing years are unrelenting in bringing to an end the lives of whats left of the last of my family & friends, causing thoughts of my own mortality to be pushed again to the forefront of my consciousness, as THE END OF MY SOJOURN IN THIS LIFE is also edging ever closer to it's inevitable conclusion, reminding me once again of the brief amount of time that man has been allotted for his sojourn here on earth--a brief 'blip' on each side of eternity--not a whole lot of time to do all of the good that there is to do in the few short years that a man has to try and do it.
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I have tried my entire adult life to become a successful entrepreneur, but I haven't as yet achieved that goal due to a childhood/lifelong 'deficit disorder' type of 'malady that severely affects BOTH my organizational abilities and short term concentration, as well as, most importantly, MY VERBAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS---PERSONAL 'attributes' which are mandatory if someone is to have any realistic chance to become a successful entrepreneur.
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Among a host of other things, these physical/psychological 'deficiencies' have resulted in being either directly or indirectly responsible for:
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1)Me being more or less snubbed/ostracized my entire life by 'mainstream' society, thereby giving me a lot of time to come up with the IDEAS, BELIEFS, CONTENTIONS, 'INVENTIONS' and basic premises for many other proposed 'start ups' and 'socially beneficial venues', none of which has had as yet the chance to be applied to real world situations or 'tested' under 'real life' conditions TO DETERMINE IF THEY HAVE THE POTENTIAL VALUE/WORTH THAT I CLAIM THEY DO--but all of which have had a 90 plus percentage success rate in the various 'tests'/'simulations' that I have put them through!!!
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2)The loss of a lot of lives(mostly children), as they were responsible for me being unable to acquire the advice/help/funding that I needed to 'perfect and get to market' in time, several 'app' type devices for saving lives(from overheated cars, drowning in public & private swimming pools, and from accidents and violence in the streets)that are only recently being made available to the public--and which, if they aren't 'marketed' in accordance with the TRUTHS alluded to above, they may still not be saving near as many lives as they could.
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DESPITE MY somewhat 'geeky'/'nerdy' looks, and the lack of a suave/polished/refined/sophisticated 'makeup', and other scholarly type educational qualifications, IN THIS EMAIL, and on my two websites(linked below), I NEVERTHELESS MAKE SOME RATHER 'HARD TO BELIEVE' CONTENTIONS with regard to certain Truths & Principles that, despite how simple, obvious & uncomplicated they are, IF PROVEN TRUE, have the realistic capability to, among a host of other things, do the following:
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1) virtually revolutionize the way MANY 'NEW' BUSINESS 'START UP' VENTURES(that don't utilize any new or unproven technology to make them fully 'functional' business enterprises)are 'discovered' &/or are considered for funding;
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2) dramatically increase the success rate of the above alluded too type of 'start up'.
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3) HELP TO SUCCESSFULLY advance the human race forward toward a better world.
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BECAUSE IT IS MY CONTENTION THAT THE POTENTIAL WORTH/VALIDITY/INFALLIBILITY OF EVERY IDEA THAT I HAVE EVER HAD, as well as that of every 'contention' that I have ever made in my entire life about ANYTHING, ARE ALL BASED ON THE PREMISE THAT THE BASIC/COMMON SENSE/LOW-TECH, 'TRUTHS & PRINCIPLES' ALLUDED TO ABOVE, ARE AS 'ETERNALLY INFALLIBLE' as I contend them to be, IT IS THEREFORE ONLY NECESSARY TO DETERMINE THE VALUE/VALIDITY OF ONE OF MY IDEAS/CONTENTIONS in order to determine the potential value/validity of them all!!!
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Consequently, via an upcoming CROWDFUNDING campaign, I AM GOING TO STAKE THE potential worth/validity/infallibility OF ALL OF THESE TRUTHS & PRINCIPLES (WHICH AUTOMATICALLY INCLUDES THAT OF EVERY IDEA AND CONTENTION THAT I HAVE EVER HAD IN MY ENTIRE LIFE ABOUT ANYTHING)ON THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE IN THE 'MARKETPLACE' OF THIS SINGLE 'brick & mortar' RETAIL START UP 'IDEA' THAT ALL OF THE 'EXPERTS' SAY WILL ABSOLUTELY FAIL!!!!
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IF THIS CF CAMPAIGN IS GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL, I can't be in charge of it as I have tried it 3 times before, AND HAVEN'T RAISED A SINGLE DOLLAR!!!---so if anyone reading this would like to COMPLETELY 'manage' this 'CROWD FUNDING' campaign for me, I WILL GIVE THEM 10% of the amount of the money that is raised (it could well be THOUSANDS), AND IF THE CAMPAIGN IS SUCCESSFUL in meeting its 'target' amount, I WILL ALSO GIVE THEM 10% of the equity in the venture itself (could be MILLIONS)!!!
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I WILL OFFER THE SAME DEAL with regard to any of the other 'business ventures' that are described at the link below, ALL of which I would also like to 'CROWD FUND' if I can find someone out there who believes in them enough (as well as in THEIR OWN 'CROWD FUNDING' 'managerial' capabilities) to create, implement and 'manage' a CF campaign for them.
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MY FEELINGS WITH REGARD TO TODAY'S 'STARTUP' SCENE:
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I remember that even as a teenager I had a lot of faith, both individually and collectively, in the 'wisdom of the crowds'(long before it became a 'fashionable'/politically correct term)on which I wrote a 'dissertation' over a half century ago and which is still just as relevant/appropriate today(maybe even a little more so)as it was way back then, as can be seen by the two recent 'best practices' type principles/ methods that are only now emerging, possibly as a result of the coming of 'The Age Of Disruption' & 'The Sharing Economy':
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If you look close at the basic premise/concept of both of the following recent process/practice of 'acqui-hiring', AS WELL AS two recent studies done by
Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Shai Bernstein
, you will easily discern the similarity between it and a process/practice that I proposed decades ago:
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1)First of all, I tried to give DEFINITIVE reasons why a long/'polished' BUSINESS PLAN--which back then was the 'holy grail' of mandatory requirements that a proposed 'start up' venture must have--wasn't all that valuable to he potential success of a 'start up', a fact that several recent 'peer reviewed' studies have shown to be true.
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Secondly, I proposed the wisdom in hiring 'freelancers' as all or part of a team to manage promising LOW TECH 'start ups' ventures that, for any number of legitimate reasons, were short one or all of the number of team members, that collectively among them, must possess all of the needed 'skill sets' that are necessary to insure each particular venture the optimum chance to become a successful enterprise:
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1)Acqui-hiring, the practice of acquiring a company mainly for its talent rather than its product, is all the rage in Silicon Valley thanks to intense competition for top engineers. Acqui-hiring or Acq-hiring (a portmanteau of "acquisition" and "hiring") or a talent acquisition is the process of acquiring a company to recruit its employees, without necessarily showing an interest in its products and services—or their continued operation.[1][2] The companies doing the buying say it is a talent acquisition.
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2)Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Shai Bernstein, along with Arthur Korteweg and Kevin Laws, conducted a study with the aim of finding out which of three main categories of information about a startup that investors actually value the most.
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The study finds that human capital is most crucial for a startup’s chance of landing an investment, with especially more experienced and successful investors basing their choices on these aspects.
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Investors are looking for an impressive and reliable founding team above all else in an early-stage startup, a new study has found.
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These early startups are notoriously risky investments, and with a lack of history, sales or a track record, investors have to rely on other aspects of the business to make a decision.
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“The operational or technical capabilities of the founding team raise the chance of success, especially in the earlier stages of a firm’s lifecycle, when experimentation is important.
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“An alternative explanation is that high quality teams have attractive outside options, and can therefore credibly signal the quality of the idea.”
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3)According to the Growing Your Small Business report, which was jointly commissioned by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), Chartered Association of Business Schools:
44pc of the companies founded in the UK in 2011 had failed by 2014, and incompetence or poor business management was to blame in 56pc of cases.
Bad management and incompetence are to blame for the majority of new business failures, a new report has found, not a lack of bank funding or perennial challenges such as a lack of skilled employees.
UK start-ups have had their knuckles rapped by the study, which has warned that first-time entrepreneurs must improve their management skills or assume the blame for going bust.
Just two-in-five new entrepreneurs had any kind of management training, compared with 89pc of business leaders at large, established firms.
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Here is what I proposed decades ago, which is very similar to the basic premise of the above concept:
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FIRST OF ALL, because ours is not a perfect world, countless people with ‘ideas’ for promising new products/services/businesses in every realm of human endeavor, don't have all of the necessary qualities/attributes/expertise to make their ‘ideas’ a success, and conversely, there is vast pool of eager, hungry ‘entrepreneurs’ out there, who, although they might not be able to come up with a good ‘idea’ for anything if their life depended on it, do have, collectively among them, every skill, trait, ability, talent, attribute characteristic or other expertise that it would take to bring to successful fruition any kind of an ‘idea’ that anyone could possibly come up with in any realm of human endeavor whatsoever.
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The above 'scenario' is a 'paradox' of sorts, in that the potential value/worth of an 'idea' for a proposed 'start up' business venture(or, an 'idea' for anything else, for that matter)is in no way enhanced or diminished by either the physical/mental/emotional 'makeup' of the person who originally came up with that 'idea', or whether or not they can't, won't, or aren't qualified/interested in doing anything with/about that 'idea'!!!
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If, on an individual basis, you can't find any significant 'fallacies' in the above statement, if they were combined into a single 'unit'/venue of some kind, the entire 'start-up community' would significantly benefit in all of the following few ways:
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1) Many good 'ideas' for 'start ups' will emerge from the minds/imaginations of 'unqualified founders' that otherwise would never have 'seen the light of day'.
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2)many talented 'wanna-be entrepreneurs' that aren't using their talents because they can't come up with a good 'start up idea' of their own, will now have a possible way out of that needless 'trap'.
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3)rather than missing out on countless, potentially successful 'start ups' simply because their 'founders, for whatever reason, can't, won't or are incapable/unqualified of making them a success, you can do the much more sensible thing of assembling from the above mentioned vast pool of talented entrepreneurs, a hand-picked, 'tailor-made 'team' for that venture who have all of the EXACT qualifications that you need (and in the exact degree of expertise required) in order to give that venture THE ABSOLUTE BEST CHANCE IN THE WORLD TO HAVE EVERY POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL??
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4) a whole new world of investment possibilities would now be open to 'start up' investors, in that they will no longer have to limit their search for promising new 'start up' business ventures to only those whose founders must BOTH come up with the 'idea' for it, and also must PERSONALLY have the necessary expertise to make it a success as well---THEY CAN NOW, IN MANY CASES, DO THE MUCH EASIER/WISER THING AND SIMPLY LOOK FOR PROMISING 'START UP IDEAS' THAT ARE ONLY LACKING A QUALIFIED MANAGEMENT TEAM IN ORDER TO BECOME A SUCCESS, AND 'ASSEMBLE' ONE FROM THAT VAST POOL OF QUALIFIED ENTREPRENEURS ALLUDED TOO ABOVE!!!
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IN LIGHT OF THE ABOVE, AND KEEPING IN MIND THEN, THAT, in basically the same way that ALL of the words & phrases of our ENTIRE English language are formed simply by 're-arranging' in an infinite number of different ways, the FINITE 26
letters of
our alphabet.....:
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IN A
SIMILAR FASHION, ALL 'NEW' BUSINESS 'START UP' VENTURES that don't need any new or unproven technology to make them fully 'functional' business enterprises, ARE ONLY 'NEW' in the sense that the various presently existing technologies that make them up, simply have never before been arranged/'put together' in exactly the particular way/shape/manner or form that is now necessary for them to be, in order that they are able to take on the look, feel and other features/'characteristics' of THE 'NEW' START UP VENTURE that they are to become!!!
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THEREFORE, because creating a new 'start up' venture of this kind is basically just an exercise in simply re-arranging whatever presently existing technology is necessary in order to make it the required functioning business enterprise envisioned by the founders and described by it's
business model, it's 'management team' will require only a finite number of existing 'skill sets'(whose number and type can be determined by simply checking those utilized in comparable successful start up' ventures)in order to successfully implement it into the 'marketplace'.
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Therefore, even though these 'start ups' may not have a 'team' or a comprehensive 'business plan' ready to go at the time of their 'discovery', THEY HAVE JUST AS GOOD OF A CHANCE OF BECOMING A SUCCESS IF..............................................................:
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INSTEAD OF BEING LED/MANAGED BY A 'TEAM' COMPRISED OF ITS 'FOUNDERS(WHO MAY OR MAY NOT BE FULLY QUALIFIED, but are accepted anyway simply because they are it's 'founders').............................................:
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IT IS LED/MANAGED INSTEAD BY A 'HAND PICKED' MANAGEMENT TEAM COMPRISED OF INDIVIDUALS SELECTED FROM THAT VAST POOL OF EAGER ENTREPRENEURS ALLUDED TOO ABOVE, WHO CAN 'THINK OUT OF THE BOX', AND ARE BOTH EXCITED & PASSIONATE ABOUT THE 'START UPS' POTENTIAL POSSIBILITIES IN THE 'MARKETPLACE', AND, WHO COLLECTIVELY AMONG THEM, HAVE WHATEVER DEGREE OF EXPERTISE THAT IS REQUIRED IN ALL OF THE VARIOUS 'SKILL SETS' THAT ARE NECESSARY TO MAKE THAT TYPE OF A VENTURE A FULLY 'FUNCTIONAL' & SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS ENTERPRISE.
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BELOW ARE A FEW MORE OF THESE 'PRINCIPLES', and the rest can be found on my website:
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IN ORDER TO DRAMATICALLY INCREASES A 'START UPS' CHANCES OF SUCCESS:
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1)AVOID 'start ups' that may require the IMMEDIATE establishment of any expensive local/regional/national 'infrastructure' type facilities that is mandatory to making it a 'successfully functioning entity'!!!
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2)AVOID 'start ups' that can't pass all 'elementary' requirements of any 'respectable' SWOT analysis type evaluation'.
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3)AVOID 'start ups' that might have any significant legal type issues/matters that could indefinitely hold it's progress up, and which can't be successfully 'adjudicated' in advance of any major investment.
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4) Even though there are now, and always will be, new or improved products &/or services that are novel, unique, sensational, spectacular &/OR unbelievable, THE SIMPLE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THAT, in most of these cases, there isn't either a big enough market out there who would want your product/service at any price, OR they can't be offered at a price that enough people could afford to purchase them---OR THERE is SIMPLY too much competition!!!
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THEREFORE, THE FIRST & MOST IMPORTANT thing that must be considered if a proposed 'start up' is to have any reasonable chance for success, is to simply determine if there is a big enough POTENTIAL market of buyers out there, who would even want your PRODUCT OR SERVICE if it were available at a fair/reasonable price?
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2)THE MANAGEMENT TEAM that is in charge of making a success of any given venture is the singularly most important 'element' in determining its success or failure--and I would add that just how successful it becomes is, in turn, directly proportional to both the amount and degree of original, 'out-of-the-box' type of entrepreneurial expertise that is possessed/exhibited by that team, AS WELL AS, their ability to properly discern which parts/aspects of the prevailing status-quo that affects their particular venture in any way, that they will no longer accept/hold up as being the unquestioned way that the who, what, where, when and why of how they will do things to insure the success of their venture!!
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3)Problems can be solved much quicker/easier/cheaper/better, if, rather than looking for its solution (and not the solution to any of its many possible negative results) by advancing forward from its present one, instead 'retreat' backward from the absolutely best possible solution to it (if anything were possible, no matter how ridiculous it may sound/be), until they come together in the best of all possible/economically feasible solutions to it, that can be implemented within the limits of existing knowledge & technology.
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4) If a company is going to survive, remain competitive and continue to proliferate in the harsh and uncertain environment of today’s ever-changing global economy, they must at all times be consciously aware of APATHY, COMPLACENCY AND UNAWARENESS, which must, in their many direct, indirect and ripple-down forms and guises, be avoided like the plague--not to do so can & will have devastating effects. Also they must have it be an integral part of their 'business model' to, AT ALL TIMES, be consciously aware of the importance of being constantly vigilant to the subtle and ever changing social/political/economic 'landscape' and be able, at a moment’s notice', to adjust/change/PIVOT their company's direction to adapt to & accommodate these changes.
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5)Lastly, it must always be properly, carefully and thoroughly searching out/being on the lookout from across the entire spectrum of all business ‘disciplines’ for:1) ANYTHING from which the premise, concept or principle upon they are based, can be successfully ‘adjusted’, adapted and then ‘transferred’ for successful utilization in other areas that may possibly be of interest/benefit to them;2)ALL INNOVATIVE COST & LABOR SAVING MEASURES, as well as any other SALES PRODUCING &/OR ENHANCING METHODS which might be successfully utilized in some way or another.
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If no SIGNIFICANT 'fallacies' can be found in the 'principles' described in this email, then WHAT FORM OF LOGIC, RATIONALE OR COMMON SENSE would possibly keep an investor from at least checking into a promising 'start up' with the many positive factors that mine claims to have, as described below:
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A NATIONAL CHAIN OF DISCOUNT CONVENIENCE STORES:
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Before I describe this 'start up' venture, let me begin by first offering the following few observations:
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Unfortunately, there is a foolish and irresponsible race that is being running rampant out there in the form of investors of every size & shape trying to find & fund 'start ups' that are based on creating & marketing BOTH more & more 'gadgets' and other 'creature comfort' type things, AS WELL AS some 'futuristic' type projects(drones to deliver consumer products to households, a nationwide compressed air tube to take people from coast to coast, consumer space flights, outposts on both the moon and mars, driverless cars, etc, etc.), all of which/whose success require our country to have an absolutely mandatory strong & stable economic infrastructure, so that if these ventures eventually proved to be fiscally/technically feasible, there will be ample people left in the country with enough money/resources to be able to use/purchase them.
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It would therefore, UNQUESTIONABLY, be best to temporarily put some of these things 'on hold', and spend some of the above alluded too time, effort & money doing something to 'shore up' our nations rapidly
deteriorating economic infrastructure before it has permanently weakened the very foundation upon which, not only the very success of these projects themselves depends, but also the foundation upon which our country & the rest of the worlds entire economic future depends on as well!!!
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Because 'THE POWERS THAT BE' in the business sector of society, HAVE NEVER SOLICITED to any significant degree, anything FROM IT'S 'RANK & FILE' MEMBERS, in regard
to the WHO/WHAT/WHERE/WHEN/WHY & HOW of what they think & feel should be done in order to make theirs a BETTER INDUSTRY, this is one of, if not the biggest reason, why the 'START UP' area of the business sector is
so far behind where it should now be given our present state of knowledge & technology.
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Many good ideas &/or the solutions to problems in ALL sectors of society, as well as the fate of many new products/services, have/will never see the light of day or become successful, simply because their promoters weren't able to adequately relate their potential value/worth to those who would most benefit from them.
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The above scenario is one of, if not the biggest reason, why certain 'start ups' are able to secure funding for their ventures so easily and others are not-- it doesn't necessarily have that much to do with the actual potential of the venture itself, but rather comes down to the 'quality' of the 'pitch' that potential investors are presented with when listening to their founders expounding the many 'virtues' of their new 'startups', which, according to them, have everything needed to become 'THE NEXT BIG THING'!!!!
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Unless you have irrefutable proof to the contrary, then I think that you'll have to agree that ANYTHING THAT I SAY IN THIS EMAIL CAN'T BE DEFINITIVELY SAID NOT TO BE TRUE &/OR THAT IT CAN'T BE DONE. I would therefore ask any of you out there to please KEEP AN OPEN MIND and put aside for the few minutes that it takes you to read this email, any long held beliefs/notions that you may have as they pertain to the entrepreneurial qualifications that a 'management team' should possess in order to have the optimum chances of making a success out of any kind/type of 'low-tech' type 'start up' business venture(i.e., any type of venture that doesn't require any new/unproven technology in order to make it a fully functional business enterprise).
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I hope that, unless you can find some SIGNIFICANT 'fallacies' of a
DEFINITIVE nature in any of the 'principles' & statements that are posted below, that you will be able to live with/forgive yourselves if you let your ego/pride/stubbornness be responsible for you not at least reading about the retail 'start up' described below, SIMPLY because it is a lowly/'non-sexy'/'brick-and-mortar' type one, and not one of your more 'sexy'/'proper'/dignified type ones!!!
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The above is ESPECIALLY true given the several positive facts regarding this particular 'start up', not the least of which is that it has the very realistic chance of becoming JUST AS BIG & PROFITABLE as do any of those more 'glamorous type start ups' which need TWENTY TIMES the 2 million dollar investment that mine would require in order to open up a half dozen 'model stores to show potential investors of BOTH it's potential long term 'staying power', as well as it's ability to become profitable in a 'time frame' TWENTY TIMES SHORTER than any of those alluded to above will require!!!
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Please keep in mind also while contemplating the various contentions that I put forth in this email, that despite all of the time, effort and money that even TOP NOTCH/'EXPERT' investors expend in searching for and 'vetting' ONLY THOSE potentially successful 'start up' ventures whose 'founders' have been determined to possess all of the necessary qualities/expertise to make that 'startup' a complete success, DECADES LONG STATISTICS have shown THAT, EVEN UNDER THESE IDEAL CIRCUMSTANCES, ONLY AROUND 10% OF THEM ARE GOING TO MAKE THE GRADE!!!!.
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Having said the above, if, once again, you can't find any DEFINITIVE 'fallacies' of a significant nature in the following 'contentions' of mine as they relate to NEW 'START UP' BUSINESS VENTURES, then I contend that the retail 'start up' venture described below has the realistic potential to be THE FIRST "NEXT BIG THING" in
'brick and mortar' retail UNICORNS!!!!!:
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A NATIONAL CHAIN OF DISCOUNT CONVENIENCE STORES:
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The convenience sector has grown massively over the last three years, with approximately 24pc of consumers visiting their local shop every day. Independent convenience stores have really upped their game,” according to Nick Shanagher, managing director at Newtrade, which runs the Independent Achievers Academy programme to help small retailers boost profits and footfall. Recent figures show that there are now 50,747 smaller independent community stores, which represent a fifth of the UK’s grocery market and employ nearly 400,000 people. The sector generates £37.46bn for the UK economy.
With over 151,000 convenience stores in the United States in 2014, and over $700 billion in annual sales, these small stores result in big business in America. In comparison, there are about 33,000 supermarkets and 40,700 drug stores across the nation (NACS). With this new convenience format Wal-Mart hopes to capture some of the $700 billion quick trip market share it is losing to Dollar General and other convenience stores. Walmart U.S. CEO Bill Simon said earlier this month that the retailer has just 10% of that market share and is vying for more with the hybrid stores that can serve consumer fill-in trips, which Walmart estimates to be 40% of their groceries spent.
As can be seen above, THERE IS A POTENTIALLY ENORMOUS WORLDWIDE MARKET FOR 'CONVENIENCE STORE' TYPE operations out there, and considering the success that selling 'discount' has had in just about every sector of the retail industry, THERE IS NO LOGICAL REASON to believe that it wouldn't be just as successful in the 'convenience store' sector as well!!!
AND AS FAR AS THE POSSIBILITY OF 'COMPETITION' being a problem, simply keep in mind that the smartest and most innovative 'players' will be the ones who will proliferate, AND THAT IS DEFINITELY WHAT THIS 'START UP' IS ALL ABOUT, BECAUSE IT IS NOT MAKING THE SAME MISTAKE AS ARE ALL OF THE OTHERS AND BELIEVING THE LIE THAT 'CONVENIENCE' AND 'LOW PRICES' CAN'T GO TOGETHER!!!
After working for 7 years in a store like the one described below(which was very successful until it was forced to close up to a bitter divorce between the husband and wife owners)AND CONSIDERING THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS, IT IS MY CONTENTION that there exists in this country, and possibly even worldwide, a vast potential market in the retail sector of our economy for a chain of NEIGHBORHOOD DISCOUNT CONVENIENCE / MINI-GROCERY STORES that sell convenience store products & services, as well as a few dozen other key food/grocery items, at prices REASONABLY CHEAPER than they can be purchased anywhere else.
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POSITIVE ASPECTS RELATED TO THIS VENTURE:
1) The operation from which I originally got the idea of opening a chain of full service convenience stores- which would sell all of its products/services at discounted prices- operated profitably for 7 years until it was forced to close down due to a bitter divorce between the husband and wife owners.
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2) It is extremely 'low-tech'.
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3) It is based strictly on proven concepts/premises.
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4) It can become profitable in as little as 3 or 4 months.
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5) It has universal need/appeal.
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6) It is highly scalable.
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7) It is relatively inexpensive to finance.
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8) With the dismal present economic situation (and no relief in sight) never has the time and opportunity ever been more conducive for a chain of stores like these.
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9) Because of its universal appeal, it will only be necessary to open a handful of these stores in order to get a solid indication of how successful they would be if expanded on a national/global basis.
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10) It fills a potential multi-billion dollar a year ignored/unmet 'niche' it's sector of the marketplace whose basic concept/premise has eluded the best entrepreneurial minds in that sector, as a thorough search of the internet confirms that THERE AREN'T ANY OTHER STORES LIKE IT ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH!!!!!
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11) Lastly, these stores are tailor made to utilize the territorial method of franchising, which the early pioneers of franchising utilized so effectively in the early 1950's, that they were able to manage 1500 units with only a handful of executives in the home office!!! The beauty of this method is that the franchisee not only pays a big upfront 'fee' for his exclusive territory (city, county, state or multi-state territories), but he also pays for all the costs to open and operate all of the units in his territory!!!
A very wise proverb from antiquity succinctly says: "NO POWER ON EARTH CAN STOP AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME". Without exception, all of the current relevant economic indicators point to the fact that our society is on the verge of ushering in the birth of a new GLOBAL ECONOMIC MODEL, whose direct, indirect and 'ripple-down' effects, ramification, repercussions, consequences and implications, will, by necessity, mandate that the American people will have to make certain changes in their current lifestyles, as well as make other concessions in areas of their lives that, up till now, they have simply taken for granted. Having said the above, I believe in my heart, mind, body and soul, that, with the PROPER LEADERSHIP, this chain of stores-which in the light of this new GLOBAL ECONOMY- will be ones that the public WON'T BE ABLE TO AFFORD NOT TO SHOP AT!!!!
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Having said the above, never in modern history have the TIME, OPPORTUNITY AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS ever concurrently come together in such perfect alignment as to virtually guarantee the success of starting up a nationwide chain of retail stores based on the concept/premise of the ones that I am describing here (and described in greater detail on the website alluded to below). The complete absence of a retail chain of stores like this one leaves big empty void in this segment of the retail market that can be successfully exploited by someone with the wisdom and foresight to see it for the virtually unlimited ground floor opportunity that it is.
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Conservatively, there is a potential market worldwide to support 50-70 thousand stores of this kind, with each doing in the vicinity of 2-3 million dollars a year in gross sales, thereby making this a potentially 50-100 billion dollar a year business!!! Therefore, based on the 7 year success of my friend’s store as well as my own observations of the industry for those years, it is my contention that there exists in this country, and possibly even worldwide, a vast potential market in the retail sector of our economy for a chain of NEIGHBORHOOD DISCOUNT CONVENIENCE / MINI-GROCERY STORES that sell convenience store products & services, as well as a few dozen other key food/grocery items, at prices REASONABLY CHEAPER than they can be purchased anywhere else.
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The only segment of the economy that has shown double digit growth for the last several years has been in the DISCOUNT sector of retail, and yet the convenience store sector is the only retail sector of the economy that hasn't as yet gone DISCOUNT in some form or another--because, for whatever reason ‘convenience store’ & ‘discount’ are just two things that have never been associated with each other. The main reason for this is that anyone who may have thought about it never looked past the several daunting surface problems standing in the way of how one might profit from selling convenience store products/services at discounted prices. After working for the guy who owned the ‘prototype’ store from which I got this idea for opening up a national/ global chain of them, I was able to successfully discern the reasons why conventional convenience stores couldn’t sell for discounted prices and how these reasons might be overcome.
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Despite what you believe &/or what the government is telling you, the economy of this country is NEVER AGAIN going to be able to sustain any kind of long term growth, UNTIL THOSE that we have elected to represent us in Washington begin to use logic/facts/truth/common sense when devising and implementing the laws that affect all of us in every segment of our society!! Although the following business venture will be just as successful in a good economy, it sure doesn't hurt to have its beginning in an economy that will virtually guarantee its success.
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It is also my firm belief that if we seize this moment in time, where EVERY RELEVANT factor affecting it, both economic and otherwise, are in such perfectly synchronized alignment, it is easily within the realm of realistic possibility that this retail concept will appeal to a large enough segment of the cost conscious consumer to generate the kind of volume that will be necessary to successfully overcome its slim profit margin and allow it to sustain the projected rate and extent of growth in order for it to achieve, in less than a decade, the same kind of phenomenal success in its sector of the retail marketplace that has taken WAL-MART 60 years to do in theirs!!!
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It is extremely rare that a definitive determination of the chances for SUCCESS of a business opportunity of this magnitude can be decided for the relatively small amount of money that it will cost to determine this one. Because the basic premise for this venture is one of universal want/need/appeal it will only be necessary to open up half dozen or so units/stores to get a definitive idea on how others that might be opened will fare.
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I read routinely about promising new business ventures without half the potential of this one on which millions of dollars have been spent, that were either ’flops’ or on which more money is still needed to determine if it will even work much less whether or not it will eventually be profitable!!!
For a few hundred thousand dollars, by using the less expensive of the two ’business model’ methods associated with this venture (as opposed to the more expensive one of remodeling acceptable new storefront locations) of ’partnering’ with a business owner of an already open/operating store who is willing (for a mutually agreed upon percentage of the new business‘ ) to remodel and operate his business to our specifications, you can get a reliable idea in a few short months whether or not the concept/premise of this promising new business venture has the kind of potential that I claim it does.
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Once again, because this promising new business venture is offering a product/service that has universal want/need/appeal you can be pretty certain that whatever happens during the 6-8 month trial’ run with that store will be the same result that you will get wherever you open one up. Because there is room for at least 20,000 stores nationally and another 30-50 thousands globally you can multiply your profit/expenses for that 6-8 month trial period by this total number to get a ’ball park’ figure of the yearly revenue potential of this promising new business venture to help you decide if it is worth investing in (see a longer description of this venture at the link below).
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YOU CAN SEE A LONGER DESCRIPTION OF THIS PROPOSED 'START UP' BUSINESS VENTURE AT THE LINK BELOW:
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http://discounstores.weebly.com.
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BEFORE I END THIS STORY, I would be extremely remiss if I didn't mention the easily recognizable deteriorating conditions that are taking place in virtually every sector of this great country of ours--conditions that MUST be greatly improved SOON if the USA is going to remain the greatest country in the history of the world. My 'solution' for what I honestly believe is the only one that will be able to save our nation from all of the negativity that is awaiting it(and us)at the end of the road that we are presently speeding headlong & recklessly down, is the one you can see it at:(http://cureforusa.weebly.com). I would appreciate your opinion on what you think of, at least, the basic concept/premise upon which it is based.
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Sincerely Yours,
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Frederick D. Scanlin
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