Bing's Introduction

[Bing]

Hello everyone!

I just bought The Millionaire Fastlane for my Kindle a few days ago and am a little more than half through it so far. Prior to this I read Tim Ferris's "The 4 Hour Work-Week" as my first entrepreneurial book and loved it. The "Fastlane" is even better!

What excited me most about MJ's book was how he discusses conclusions I've been coming to myself in recent years, confirming that I'm not insane for my recent realizations. For example, I do some volunteer work for the Ron Paul 2012 campaign (which I won't be pimping here, I promise) and a lot of MJ's views on the "I deserve" generation and spending (both personally and federally) are exactly in line with these fiscally responsible views. Personal responsibility has been swept to the side and people claim victim-hood far too readily. Additionally I realized that time is the most precious asset, and that attention is the one thing everyone craves. If you capture enough attention (a synonym for "people's time")

As for me, I'm a 24-year-old Slowlaner. I'm proud to say I've never been on the Sidewalk, but I still have a lot to learn as I transition to the Fastlane. I currently have a very comfortable 9-5 job (which is risky because it's easy to become complacent) and a side-business I run personally doing freelance web development work. It's great, except that it's still trading my time for dollars, when I really need an automated system that scales. Luckily, automation is my specialty.

Right now my obstacle is trying to decide which of my top 5 ideas I should pursue:

1. Mail merge online software
2. Sell imported USB drives
3. A beer delivery service
4. Club management website subscriptions
5. Landlord apartment management tools

I have started work on 1, 4 and a little bit on 3 so far, but I think focus on bringing one to market would be better than distributed efforts in too many places without focus. I have some great ideas for each of them, but marketing (and gauging market size/interest) is my current "I don't know how to" roadblock, so I'm starting my research right away, and hope that will inform me about which I should pursue first.

Aside from that, a little about me: I graduated from college in 2007 (a little young), double majored in math and computer science. I work as a Software Engineer at my 9-5 outside of Washington DC, and love adventures/thrills. I'm a licensed pilot, have been skydiving twice, learning to white-water kayak, black belt in Ken Po, have a motorcycle, done some aerobatic flying, SCUBA certified and a bunch of other stuff. I love doing things, which is why 9 times out of 10 I choose playing a video game or building something online over watching TV, especially if I've seen it before (it's bad enough to watch junk TV once, but re-runs? no way).

Anyway, enough about me. I'm excited to be here and to learn and share with everyone else involved!

 

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