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Old 11-01-2024, 03:32 AM  
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Im gonna answer in a different way. What you are really saying, money aside, is that you are a creative person, with drive and ambition and talent, with all these ideas that you are sure will be a success and earn you huge sums of money...

However, you don't feel that you have the funds to bring your ideas to life...

Nothing wrong with that - Solution is to think smaller... Refine some of your ideas, and instead of thinking of them in their 'full fat' version (Your Ideal Version) that will bring you thousands and thousands of dollars - Istead do them in a 'cut down' version - A 'Lite Version' - and see if you can generate $100 from it? If these are truly worth doing, they would generate $100 for sure...

If your ideas are any good to begin with, then by default they can also be scaled. I agree that not everything can be scaled UP... But... Pretty much everything can be scaled DOWN...

There's a line in 'The Great Rock & Roll Swindle' film, that goes 'Dont think in Tens, think in Hundreds & Thousands of pounds' - But Im talking about the exact opposite of that...

In other words, as an example, if I have an idea for a motion picture that will be a worldwide box office hit, but its gonna need a budget of millions to produce and big name stars like Tom Cruise etc attached, then I'm pretty fucked, cause I cant raise that cash, don't have Toms phone number, and if I tried to sell the idea to a studio, I'd probably just get ripped off...

So I would scale the idea right back to basics, and create it for youtube, using a phone and a few mates. If the ideas good, Id gain traction - Likewise if someone stole the idea later, Id have dated evidence I did it first...

So in other words, follow your dreams, dream your destiny, but don't try and make a fortune straight away - Just make a small return - Gain an audience - Leverage your audience. Defy the logic of alphabets for nothing is impossible...
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