/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>16109115
>legacy payment
>work fine
>not going to be a major waste of money if not made more efficient

>>15744842

>>15672557
never be a consensus to protect bitcoin against quantum decryption? of course everyone will want to shoot themselves in the foot

>>15241338

>In 2018 I start my own business at age 26
>I import speciality form work from China which was manufactured by my wife's family
>the company is very successful over there with over 3000 employees
>Think it is easy money as I get full support from the company
>Quit job, get loan from bank and from family, lease warehouse, import $200,000 of stock to sell
>Approach every single contractor who would use this in the country
>Nobody in my country wants to use it or even try it for free
>A year goes by and I have sold $50,000 of it at most whole my overheads are $130,000 without even paying myself a salary
>Find out that 90% of the goods are now slightly defective because I did not store them correctly i my warehouse.
>I was never told I had to store them a certain way
>On the edge of throwing myself off a bridge
>Suddenly out of nowhere get a call from a carpenter to buy some of it for some shit hes building
>Pays full price, in cash, picks it up that day. Doesnt give a fuck about the defects.
>Suddenly he comes back next week and does the same.
>I make some shit tier brochure and email it to about 20 of the larger carpenter companies. I don't call or even make any real attempt to sell to them besides a shit email
>20% of them have come back to buy my goods to use for god knows what
>Paying in full. Same day. Don't give a shit about defects.
>I have sold more in the last 2 months to the same 5 companies then I did for a whole year when trying to sell to the industry and correct use for my product
>Now out of stock for about 4 sizes of my goods and need to import more

I swear business is all about getting fucking lucky and nothing else.

>>11760179
>shorting ATVI after it has already dropped nearly 40% since oct. 1.