Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had nothing to do with the invention of computers (or software for computers). Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t involved with creating the social network. Jeff Bezos wasn’t the first guy to sell something on the internet.

All of these guys have (at least) 2 things in common. First, their “illionaire” title starts with a big capital B. Second, they took a pre-existing idea, did it better, kept doing it better, and won.

In every case, these guys would not have been able to do the things they did, were it not for the existence of a crowded graveyard of companies that came before them, gave it their best, and failed miserably. Or in some cases, gave it their best, succeeded, and advanced a platform that allowed each of these guys to create their empires.

We live in a day and age where it is really really easy to start a business.I mean like, stupid easy. I think a lot of people might be looking at this and saying, “there must be some catch.” There isn’t. Any quack off the street can setup a website (for free), start spewing their thoughts to the world (for free), attract attention (for free), and then get paid by advertisers (a lot). Zero cost to market.

After Conan O’Brien abruptly left NBC in 2010 he went on his, “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television” tour. Even though he had plenty of money from his Late Night days he spent exactly $0 advertising the tour. All he did was tweet out the schedule… Sold out

The fact that absolutely anyone has the potential to do that absolutely blows my mind.

The only reason most people can do this is because someone else did it first. Realize that all of those guys I listed at the top were just dudes who had a vision and started working on something.

I think that most of us are failing to realize the giant wave of the internet that is still to come.

Prediction: The number of people making $80,000 or more per year solely from 100% internet based businesses that THEY started and own 100% of is going to increase exponentially over the next few years.

Prescription: Look at a market, look at the players in that market, find a way to do it better, start doing things that way, profit.

It’s super easy and really fun.

Thank you for reading,

Jordan Laubaugh
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