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baxtr
70 days ago
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I've launched 37 products in 5 years and not doing...
“During a gold rush, sell shovels”
amelius
70 days ago
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Modern take: during a gold rush, review the shovels.
baxtr
70 days ago
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Build a shovel app?!
comprev
70 days ago
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Shovel-as-a-Service*
[*] Also known as "tool hire" and has been around since the dawn of mankind
eddythompson80
70 days ago
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I package shovel-industry futures into financial instruments and sell them to speculators.
skeeter2020
70 days ago
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I strip out the sharp-bladed, fiberglass handled ones and sell them individually, then combine the leftovers with other shitty shovels and sell them as sets of top quality, grade-A dirt moving implements.
Imustaskforhelp
70 days ago
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and I create a cryptocurrency whose name is shovel but has nothing to do with the shovel but its just for the hype.
monocultured
69 days ago
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May I offer you an animated shovel NFT that will cement you as an early trailblazing thoughtleader in the earth-moving space?
Imustaskforhelp
67 days ago
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Wow, congrats you beat me, Let me crown ya as the new winner then I guess. I didn't even think of NFT oh my god, that was how scammy most nft's are.
Seriously Congrats lol
baxtr
70 days ago
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I think we have a winner…
Imustaskforhelp
67 days ago
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I replied after a looong time but yeah it had made my day lol. thanks.
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