grantsch

game in my comment above is basically exactly what you are describing except you play 1 soldier only

You would love this game called Foxhole

https://store.steampowered.com/app/505460/Foxhole/

I'm sure it can help in conjunction with sales. Of course it can augment other activity.

B2B early stage companies selling a high ticket service/product need to be focused on sales activity.

Ads are a distraction. It's the seemingly easy way out but there's no way out of selling early stage.

do you have a link or know the name of the show? i'd be very interested in watching that

Nearly none of the comments are really about what they're eliminating: SAT subject tests (NOT the SAT!)

The main SAT is basically a basic skills and IQ test while the SUBJECT tests are almost entirely about preparation, making them much easier to game/prepare for.

Source: I tutored the SAT and subject tests.

ok email me

if you had a machine that could profitably pick stocks why would you ever invest just your money (not a lot) vs other people’s money (could be infinite if your strategy scales)

Email me your performance #s if this is real. I can help you.

Email address in my bio.

Thanks

I’m confused

If you have a profitable strategy that scales up, raise capital to execute on it. Doesn’t seem too hard.

this is a very smart comment

if it's really profitable why don't you raise a fund

ok thanks

hey we can talk email me (in bio)

I agree w/ you on this.

Complicated earnout arrangements aren't something we're interested in.

We're interested in taking over businesses and using our skillset (marketing for me / software for my partner) to unlock value in the business

thanks for your input

well there's a trade-off.

they get money in return.

we have access to capital for the right thing

We want to work on something cool and this is one way to jump in.

I think it's really case by case if it works or not.

you can sell it to my team then you won't have to

open to potentially doing a profit-sharing deal as well if it's good.

grantschiller18 at [google's email service] dot com

A classic from Brecht's "Hollywood Elegies"

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Every day, to earn my daily bread

I go to the market where lies are bought

Hopefully

I take up my place among the sellers.

Just to be clear, I'm not a writer. That said, there are certain structural elements one expects to see in a well-crafted story... the same way you expect to see certain things in a good program.

I mean sure, just like anything there is a certain method to writing a story. That doesn't mean that writing a movie is just paint-by-numbers like you seem to be implying. A programmer doesn't invent a new language every time she's going to write an application.

Writing a good movie is really, really challenging.

Yeah... and that's not really accurate.

As someone with some relevant industry experience, I can tell you that nearly 0 professional screenwriters or development executives are consciously sticking to a rigid structure as prescribed by some book. Instead, what you're seeing is the difference between after the fact analysis and the process of creation. Things like the three act structure and certain beats appearing in many movies exist because those are just natural ways to tell a story. The three act structure is, at the most basic level, just the series of beginning, middle, and end. Of course any movie has these sections by necessity and there are better and worse ways to navigate through each.

Just to be clear though, no one is sitting around talking about Snyder's beats or terminology. In the industry, the only terms you'll here from these books are discussions of the three act structure because that is so vital to this sort of material. All that said, I do think the books are a good starting point for someone who wants to think critically about story, but don't think that these are blueprints for Hollywood success. If they were, every screenwriter would be paid scale.