Real business advice thread

[Anonymous No.55759993]

For those of you who don't just speculate on ponzis

- Cold email strategies
- Which automated tools are you using (any new AI stuff?)
- Outsourcing strategies you found useful

Anything else, that doesn't relate to investments

pic related, my own business with a partner, hopefully will finish the year with ~$1.25m ARR and 2024 with $2.5m (Cybersecurity SAAS), almost all of it is profits

[Anonymous No.55760850]

god damn this board is trash fr

[Anonymous No.55760865]

>>55760850
Jokes on you for thinking this board isn't just about retarded gambling.

[Anonymous No.55760938]

>>55759993
I have what I believe to be a really great idea for an automation tool in the software space that I can't find anywhere on the internet whatsoever. Trouble is, I'm having a hard time trying to figure out if it'd really be worth the time to put it together. How do you do market research for a tool that doesn't exist yet?

[Anonymous No.55760962]

>>55760938
do you know who might be a good target audience for something like that? if so, you should reach out via Linkedin, people are generally nice, ask if x would help them, tell them you're not selling them a product and you genuinely want their opinion so you don't waste your time

if you see that there is a positive response, develop a prototype, a very bad version of what you meant to develop, in the shortest amount of time that you can, don't worry if it's shit.

let people beta test it for free, if you have some $, offer a $20-$50 gift card for people to try it out and provide feedbacks/features suggestions

[Anonymous No.55760970]

>>55759993
>>55760850

[Anonymous No.55761022]

>>55760970
been here longer than u newfag been on 4chan

and this is why I'm a millionaire and you're a poor fag

[Anonymous No.55761203]

>>55760962
I appreciate the response, anon. I'll try those. I also just started reading a book called The Mom Test that goes over this, but I haven't gotten too far into it yet.

And don't be discouraged at the lack of responses. Whatever happened to the Small Biz General threads? Those were the only reason I came to /biz/ for quite awhile

[Anonymous No.55761390]

>>55759993
Congrats dude.

[Anonymous No.55761451]

>>55761022
>>55759993

Hey anon, I'm was working in the cybersecurity field, but lost my job. I also want start a business in the cybersecurity industry. Do you have any interesting areas I can look into for inspiration, preferable SAAS as well.

I am living in Singapore so I have access to good business and I work hard but its hard for me to find good ideas

thanks anon

[Anonymous No.55761469]

>>55759993
my advice is to ape into eth degens, waging aint gonna make it these days

[Anonymous No.55761497]

>>55759993
> just speculate on ponzis
Ftfy
Thread

[Anonymous No.55761512]

>>55761451
Aren't ideas the easy part? If you don't have any ideas for what to build, that means you can't think of any problems to solve. If your business doesn't solve a problem or a pain point for somebody, they're not going to spend a dime on it.

Get your hands dirty, dig more into your field of expertise and find some problem that's a real pain in the ass. Solve it, make it look pretty and then learn how to sell.

[Anonymous No.55762145]

>>55760850
jannies purged all content that was actually good
they turned the board into a pay to spam pump and dump crab fest
all the real business people fucked off to the discord after that and never came back, hence the sorry state of present day biz
its just paid jeets and a handful of legit threads about the big coins so thats also the only people that come here, degenerate gamblers and people interested in the lets say macro crypto market

[Anonymous No.55762259]

>>55762145
got any good discords?

[Anonymous No.55762478]

>>55762259
nope got kicked out due to inactivity during the bear
considering the utterly compromised state of biz right now dont expect them to ever invite new people

[Anonymous No.55763243]

bump

[Anonymous No.55763295]

>>55759993
pentester here. congrats m8. wish I had any ideas on what to do to make money like you did but I dunno. guess I could write yet another wordpress vuln scanner or some shit but I'm too lazy for that shit

[Anonymous No.55763301]

>>55761451
If you're a programmer and want to make shady money write a browser toolbar to make everything into an affiliate link. Then just have to get people to install it. I know a dude who did this and sold his company for $8mil

[Anonymous No.55763302]

>>55763295
I have a pentesting friend that makes like $100k a month, but he is very talented.

His main focus rn is scalability, bringing his talent into an automated process, I suggest you find 1 specific niche you can automate and scale and sell it as a product to existing vendors

[Anonymous No.55763305]

btw I opened this thread, my IP changed

[Anonymous No.55763319]

>>55763302
>I have a pentesting friend that makes like $100k a month, but he is very talented.
and here I am, making $34k/yr after taxes in my shitty 3rd world country...
I can code too, but I really should put some effort into this.
I don't know shit about businesses beyond the basics though.

[Anonymous No.55763330]

>>55763319
It's not just about knowing how to code, the guy I'm talking about began hacking when he was 12, it's passion..

The way I see it, if you're able to find any vulnerability that is replicable across a large amount of businesses, you can package it into a solution that you can advertise

e.g I know a guy who discovered somewhat of a 0day in excel that enabled him to see the IP address of the editors of the excel, he was able to then build an entire offensive security business for it and sell to governments/agencies where they would essentially pay per IP you discovered

[Anonymous No.55763341]

>>55763330
>The way I see it, if you're able to find any vulnerability that is replicable across a large amount of businesses, you can package it into a solution that you can advertise
what the fuck, I have never seen something like this. sounds like a really good business, actually. instead of selling a 0day for 30k or whatever, FUD the vulnerable product and sell a mitigation for the very same 0day that you found? that's a genius move

>e.g I know a guy who discovered somewhat of a 0day in excel that enabled him to see the IP address of the editors of the excel, he was able to then build an entire offensive security business for it and sell to governments/agencies where they would essentially pay per IP you discovered
wait, this is not even what I wrote... this is some sort of glowie shit, right? you don't sell mitigations, you actually exploit the 0day and sell the data to the govt. interesting and cool. but, how the fuck do you even market such a tool? you need contacts for something like this...

[Anonymous No.55763369]

>>55763341
in the specific example it was an offensive security business, there are lots of examples of defensive ones (such as mine)

it was just so you'd understand the idea of scaling your expertise

[Anonymous No.55763443]

>>55763369
sure, and thanks for that, I hadn't thought of something like this before. I always thought that my only ways to make money were either to keep wageslaving or to hit it big by finding a 0day in some popular software and selling it for at least 5 figures

[Anonymous No.55763759]

>>55763443
Good luck!

[Anonymous No.55764050]

>>55763443
Imagine being so stupid that you think you're smart enough to find a zero day that matters

[Anonymous No.55764676]

>>55763369
where is your business based from OP? I guess market access matters as well for such business to succeed. I'm from Slovakia btw