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Sounds like you're experienced, which is great. Tell me about the first business you started and how long it took you until you were able to live like you live today.

I totally agree that it's very easy to get to a few thousand dollars a month in sales. It's getting beyond that which is hard.

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"Very easy" is an interesting way to put it.

How long did it take you to get to a few thousand dollars a month cheez? Out of interest, how far into your career was that?

I'm not sure I'd class getting to a few thousand dollars as "very easy", certainly do-able for a lot of businesses with a few months to a years hard work, but I wouldn't call that "very easy", personally.

Since you asked: it took exactly one month and about 4 years into my post-university career to get to a few thousand. A lot of it was right place, right time of course.

The one thing I did right was find the market first, then built a product for that market.

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