Should AJ Open Crazy AJ's?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@RojoLoco said:
I love the idea, but SAM keeps on saying how hot it is... in October.... Much like The Who, I'm an air-conditioned gypsy...
Remember that there are not really much in the way of seasons here. It's roughly even all year.
Hateful heat all year? Uggh. I become homicidal during the hot summer in ATL, but there is at least the relief of autumn.
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The heat never ends, this is Central America near the equator.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@IRJ said:
This thread is a joke, right?
Nope
You honestly think AJ could handle this?
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@IRJ said:
You honestly think AJ could handle this?
It's specifically an idea to address AJ's needs:
- Learn business context so that he can learn to appreciate the needs of an employer and what they face as issues rather than seeing the world from a purely "tech" perspective.
- Direct feedback that he cannot avoid rather than filtered feedback as employees get.
- Leverages what he enjoys doing: end user tech and support. The very aspects of Staples that he likes without the parts that he doesn't.
- Putting AJ in a market where his skills are rare and needed.
- Low overhead. The cost of failure is very low.
- Awesome potential lifestyle if he pulls it off.
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@IRJ said:
You honestly think AJ could handle this?
@scottalanmiller said:
It's specifically an idea to address AJ's needs:
That may be true, but that is not answering the question as asked.
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@JaredBusch said:
@IRJ said:
You honestly think AJ could handle this?
@scottalanmiller said:
It's specifically an idea to address AJ's needs:
That may be true, but that is not answering the question as asked.
In a word - Yes. The worse that happens is that he fails to listen to clients (or just doesn't get any) and the shop fails. But that would be 4 months later. As a backup plan, perhaps he should have enough additional cash to buy a plane ticket back to the states if he does fail.
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It's nothing against AJ, but starting a business in the US is difficult enough when you consider all the paperwork and budget keeping aspects. I would imagine that starting a business in a different country is much harder.
At least in the US you have a guideline of what to charge, understand the culture, speak the language , and can somewhat relate with your customers. In a foreign country you don't have any of these on your side.
Not to mention finding a decent location to place the store and a decent place to live. Those things that seem so easy are so much more difficult when you don't understand the culture. @scottalanmiller you are world traveler so you understand alot of these types of things, but most of us don't.
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sam could help him. where the hale is AJ?
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@Dashrender said:
In a word - Yes. The worse that happens is that he fails to listen to clients (or just doesn't get any) and the shop fails. But that would be 4 months later. As a backup plan, perhaps he should have enough additional cash to buy a plane ticket back to the states if he does fail.
You can bus back or he can workaway in the area.
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@hubtechagain said:
sam could help him. where the hale is AJ?
Atlanta. He's hanging with @relientkitten
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@IRJ said:
It's nothing against AJ, but starting a business in the US is difficult enough when you consider all the paperwork and budget keeping aspects. I would imagine that starting a business in a different country is much harder.
I've not done both, but starting in Nica seems easier. Less overhead, more unique opportunity, clear gaps in the market unfilled for known reasons. In the US there is so much continuous, existing competition that it gets really hard.
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@IRJ said:
It's nothing against AJ, but starting a business in the US is difficult enough when you consider all the paperwork and budget keeping aspects. I would imagine that starting a business in a different country is much harder.
Well they aren't calling him Crazy AJ for nothing!
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If you Google it, there is a place called Crazy AJ's Camo.
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So I've got some interest from a small investor. Would there be interest in the ML community for anyone that might want to go in on owning a Central American chain of Internet cafes and computer fix it shops?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
If I wanted to sweat my ass off for the rest of my life, I might consider it...
Hell I have have the required startup capital.. lolYou start to get used to it. Both used to the heat and to sweating all of the time.
Yeah, except due to my genetics, I sweat far more profusely than the average American male and I SMELL when I do...not a musk smell, like a "don't raise your arms" smell...
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This is a very interesting thread...for sure...
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And it's got over 1.3K VIEWS!! HOLY ^^^^!!
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This is the big Internet cafe right by my house...
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An Internet cafe that sells hamburgers.
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Same one again...
