First you need to use fiat to get BTC or ETH. I recommend ETH because transaction speed and fees are faster and cheaper.
I recommend Gemini.com (Winklevoss twins involved in this company)
Then I recommend Bittrex.com and Binance.com for the top two exchanges right now. I can see Binance overtaking Bittrex eventually, it recently launched but has it's own coin and is going to become decentralized eventually.
Is this something you have heard about on the news and/or Internet, or is there some truth behind this (that there are bots gaming the authoring process)? I would like to learn more about it, how its being done, etc.
Not expecting you to share one of the books with me, but I was looking to get into this as well. I am assuming they are small, niche-specific books.
Do you perform all of the keyword research ahead of time (before finding your writer), and build out an index/table of contents so that every chapter in the book is planned ahead of time, or do you leave all of the research, chapter creation, and writing for the ghostwriter?
Much of it depends on what I am looking to publish. I mostly focus on popular romance niches.
For instance I publish a lot of LGBT erotica/romances. I write up about 1-2 paragraphs of what I want the story to be and pass it to the ghostwriter. I have a few different pen names and each stick with one genre. Example: "Mary Sue" only publishes BDSM Gay Romances. That way if you find one of my books and like gay bdsm romance, you're more likely to buy the others or subscribe to learn when new books come out.
I have a simple wordpress site for each author with an email list. I provide 1 book free for signing up.
I've used the same ghostwriting service for ~2 years so they're pretty consistent.
I'm currently working on a nonfiction politics book. I basically provided a word doc of research (news articles/etc), and a theme. I only specified 2 chapters and a word count. The other chapters are up to them.
As a follow-up, this idea came out because I have somewhat recently taken a huge interest in art, not helped by my binge watching of Bloomberg's Brilliant Ideas documentary series on various artists. I have collected some prints/reproductions over the years, but didn't see a marketplace to buy authentic, original works from artists. I check Craigslist occasionally with varying degrees of success. Thus, the idea was born.
At least in that case I wouldn't mind if a superior was honestly and truly checking with Legal Departments, and others of authority, to verify whether some action I was considering taking was going to cost me my job... Could any of us here really be upset about a Manager that does that?
I'm fairly certain the implication here is that he was not, in fact, checking with Legal or anyone, but simply holding off to make it seem as if he was and it was too late to question.
Jim is known for retaliating against his employees. That's why we got rid of him at MSFT and then Google... He is happy enjoying his millions in stock units and 100% bonus target. What did you expect? SOP.
No, I don't think so, assuming the manager also said something along the lines of "The check might run right up before your talk. Please make sure to check your phones before walking on stage so that if something happens last minute you'll know. I'll promise to text you either way."
Let's have a little fun and pick apart the first topic you listed. Books. What exactly is there still to be done in the realm of books?
Publishing? There are big companies or now you can self-publish. There are many video tutorials, courses, and blogs all dedicated to self-publishing, so even the online education realm of things seems to be taken.
Writing books? Ok sure you can write a book just like you can produce a single piece of any kind of content, so that can't count. Software to assist in writing books? From my quick search, there's Scrivener, and a bunch of other platforms and apps.
Want to write a book without typing? Hmm, there's already a bunch of speech-to-text apps like Dragon.
Buying books? Amazon.
Audio books? Audible.
Collecting books? Hmm ok, may be something in there. Site that lists the top 100 books from prior years? Or a top 10 per genre, per year (historical).
The reality is coming up with an idea is already hard. Coming up with a business is much harder.
Would love an idea in this space.
A) the question asks specifically how to find a "side project" idea, not necessarily a full fledged business all though it could turn into one.
B) The whole point of being involved in a specific community (e.g. fantasy books written by Terry Brooks) is that issues will crop up naturally that you, as a dev, may be in a position to solve. Theorizing on problems in this thread is the exact opposite of my suggestion.
C) The topics were half in jest (see 'armadillos'), and were just meant to kickstart the OP's thinking process.
The process of coming up with an idea shouldn't have to happen in a vacuum. The point it to solve problems you encounter and help solve them.
You're totally right. Just frustrating -- Guess if I want to do something in that space, I need to get more involved in the community, like you said in "B".
As the other request said, please post more information. I want your lifestyle and hope one day I can come up with an idea and put it into action to achieve it.
Then hire other people and try to optimize your business to work without your control. It's very important to be able to manage the company remotely.
A lot of people are trying to get to some huge expertise to achieve "bigger salary" or something. But no one really focuses on earning a small regular no-hassle income.
That's mostly it...Focus on 20% of stuff which gives 80% of results, like the book said.
As a somewhat obsessive relationship with that book, I'm looking to get into entrepreneurship soon. From everything I've read and researched about the 4HWW, people say its better to first have a working business and/or income stream, then focus on ways to automate or make single processes more efficient; As opposed to trying to start a business using the 4HWW from the 'get-go'.
What would your advice be? As someone who's lived the success, do you think its possible to start from the ground up with 4HWW in mind?
No I don't think that is usually possible. I think your first idea is correct. Work like crazy to get something working and profitable, and then work to automate it (which is frequently harder than you might think).
Doing this has helped me create bigger things as well. I create a business, more or less automate it, and then use that cashflow to work on other businesses. Eventually creating a portfolio of cashflow businesses, with a few exits in the middle.
