Should AJ Open Crazy AJ's?
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I just finished reading through all the posts I missed. I was passed out for 12 hours...I was exhausted. It's an interesting idea for sure.
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@thanksajdotcom said:
What kind of internet speeds do you have and what kind of speeds would be available?
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Great ping speed and 2/1 is not so bad for "free included" Internet. No idea what is available, though. I've not spoken to any ISPs.
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From wikipedia:
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Looks like 4Mb/s is $50/USD per month.
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4Mb/s is probably more than enough for an Internet cafe. He could probably trim that down. Especially if he put in a cache of some sort too.
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This thread is a joke, right?
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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.. lol -
@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.. lolI love the idea, but SAM keeps on saying how hot it is... in October.... Much like The Who, I'm an air-conditioned gypsy...
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@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.
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@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.
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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.
