The shop I work at (as mechanic) is looking into getting a second location (across the street about 30 meters away) This location would be only for service and not have sales of any new bikes. Do any of you work in a similar situation? What kind of pros and cons are there with such a system? The service would also be the warehouse for parts.

Not sure if this changes by location, but this happened in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
My wife and I purchased a mirror from Egypt for $800 (it’s a huge mirror) and used it for decor on our wedding day. When we were on our honeymoon, my MIL had the mirror delivered to my parents’ house (who were also out of town for a couple weeks). My MIL accidentally gave my neighbors address, so it was delivered next door and my neighbors then brought it to a consignment store. The consignment store sold it for $300 to another couple getting married and said there’s nothing they can do.
I just want the mirror back and don’t even care if the other couple uses it. Not only was it very expensive, but it has sentimental value to us and we planned on keeping it for a long time. For some reason, my wife was dead set on having this mirror for our wedding day and I can’t explain the amount of time she spent finding it. She’s heartbroken and I don’t know what to do!!

For reference, this happened in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
My wife and I purchased a mirror from Egypt for $800 (it’s a huge mirror) and used it for decor on our wedding day. When we were on our honeymoon, my MIL had the mirror delivered to my parents’ house (who were also out of town for a couple weeks). My MIL accidentally gave my neighbors address, so it was delivered next door and my neighbors then brought it to a consignment store. The consignment store sold it for $300 to another couple getting married and said there’s nothing they can do.
I just want the mirror back and don’t even care if the other couple uses it. Not only was it very expensive, but it has sentimental value to us and we planned on keeping it for a long time. For some reason, my wife was dead set on having this mirror for our wedding day and I can’t explain the amount of time she spent finding it. She’s heartbroken and I don’t know what to do!!

So I’m relatively new to the UK and my building just got FTTC by VM. The sales rep will be coming over in few days so I want get tips on how to negotiate for Gig1. I’m looking for broadband only but unsure of what a good price will be. I live in Newport, Wales. Thanks!

From the first line of code, to having the money in the bank, it took me 4 years of side hustling while having a 9 to 5 job, and 9 months of working on it full-time.
I spent hours digging Quora, Reddit, startup stories trying to find answers to “how to fundraise as a solo founder without a team”. There were more arguments against doing so than success stories.
Things like:
- find a cofounder
- if you can’t even convince someone to join you, how can you convince investors?
- single point of failure: what if you get hit by a bus?
- you can’t possibly do everything by yourself
Those are all valid and justified concerns.
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I end up finding the answer myself by going through it for my startup SewaYou after lots of moments of self-doubt.
I’ll walk you through my journey to reach this point.
I hope my experience can help you go through one of the darkest moments in a startup founder’s life - fundraising, because many of us (wrongly) associate our personal and company value or worth with the Yes or No from investors.
Please read until the end to learn how I did it.

Timeline

Quick personal background: I started my career as a software engineer in Japan 5 years ago, and was building on the side my, now startup, SewaYou, an app to help you find language exchange partners in your area.
During 4 years here in Japan Tokyo, I’ve worked for 3 different companies while side-hustling, quit twice my full-time job and finally get the Japanese Permanent Residency to allow me to legally open and run a company.
I quit my last corporate job in October 2021, so almost a year now.
In December 2021, so 2 months after I quit my job, I got invited to speak at a small event to share my experience as a solo founder.
That talk then helped me get introduced to a few people, and I ended up being introduced to a VC in Tokyo. That was the first time that I got my first step into that whole startup ecosystem.
Got an in-person meeting with one of the general partner of the VC, and then got introduced to another general partner over email.
That was right before the year-end holidays, so you can guess that it was not the best timing to start an investment discussion or business deal.
During the holidays, I also took time to reflect and see whether it’s the right choice to raise VC money at this stage of my project, or should I go with Angels investors instead, or wait a bit more.
Then around mid January, so a few weeks after the introduction email, I sent a follow up email, without much follow up.
Social momentum is real: you’ll be forgotten if you don’t keep that momentum and try to quickly get to a potential agreement.
I also incorporate my project into a real company, a 株式会社 for those who know, which is a joint-stock company in February 22. (2022/02/22).
An easy date to remember and to prepare the legal side in case I might receive investment in the near future.
I know that I needed to raise money at some point, as soon as possible and I can’t possibly grow the project with just my 1-year-ish savings and stay as a one-man show.
Startups is about growth, and fast growth.
So, after that, I started to dig into finding and talking to like 4 or 5 potential angels investors instead, and attended one pitch event online.
Btw, making a pitch slide deck is also pretty time consuming but that helps to understand your business better and think of thing like financials, and go-to-market strategy.
At first, I was pitching angels with the mindset of “I need funding”. This will show in your words as you might sound desperate without you even realizing it.
So as expected, I didn’t get much out of it neither. It’s better to hear a clear No so that you can move on.
But mostly, I didn’t hear neither a clear No nor a clear Yes. That’s a difficult situation you can find yourself in. So I appreciate investors saying straight No.
It’s pretty common to find angels or investors who only invest if there’s a bigger player who leads the round so they can follow.
It also doesn’t help to be a solo founder without a team, nor prior track record of exiting a previous startup.
I wasn’t working neither on trendy projects of the moment to get an extra excitement from investors.
I mean language exchange/learning doesn’t sound that trendy or hot the way NFTs or web3 projects seem to be, right?
So instead, I took all the valuable feedback and just focus on improving the product. That’s a good thing to talk to investors even though you don’t get any investment, they still kindly give you valuable feedback!
So I stopped trying to look for investors, and spent the next 5 months in focus mode just building and improving my app, code, talk to users, code, retain users, rinse and repeat.
I spent time testing hypothesis, adding new features, deprecating features that are not used, improving the app performance, make it more user friendly, get feedback and so on.
I played to my strengths and focus on building the best product possible that people want. Better build a beautiful product than beautiful pitch slides.
Then I started to implement a payment system and try to charge users.
To my surprise, I realized that there’re people who need your product enough to be willing to swipe their credit card. That was a big validation and leverage.
At that time, my app SewaYou, which is a social consumer app, had only around 5000 users with around 700 Monthly Active Users.
At around the same time, after getting my first organic paid users, I got introduced to another VC. One Zoom meeting, one in-person meeting demoing SewaYou app, showing some traction KPIs, talking about the big vision.
They decided to invest. A month later the money is in the bank.
That’s what I take: 2 meetings and an app demo, no pitch deck, and small due diligence.
At the seed stage, you know when a VC or investor wants to invest or not after one or two meetings. If it takes too much time for them to decide, that might not be a good sign.
I was asked questions like:
- How much I plan to raise
- How I’m gonna spend that money
- How much % am I willing to give for the amount raised.
We agree on a % that is less than 10% for this first seed round.
In term of the due diligence, it was pretty basic:
- I wrote a small report summarizing my app usage metrics, like monthly download progress, MAU and other basic metrics.
- I wrote a one page Business Plan with projected revenues and user growth for the next year
- and copies of legal papers like the Company Articles of Incorporation. Fortunately, since I already incorporated my company back a few months ago, this step was quick
Then we started to draft the terms for the investment, with the help of a lawyer that they also introduced. Everything was written in Japanese, even though I can speak fluently Japanese, I still need some time to go through it.
The whole process took around 3-4 weeks, from the terms drafting and having the investment money wired to my company bank account.
That was a good thing to incorporate my company and opening a corporate bank account beforehand, so the investment process can go smooth and quick, because at a seed and early stage, there are teams working on projects without having a company ready.

Recap

To recap a little bit my journey:
- it took me 4 years of side hustle and 9 months full-time to build from scratch my app as a solo founder doing everything myself (dev, design, marketing…)
- I had no prior credentials or track records such as second time or exited founder
- time spent from “I want to fundraise” to “the $ is in the bank” was 8 months
- numbers of investors pitched: 2 VCs and less than 5 angels
- pitching event attended: 1 (and it was online due to Covid)
- amount raised: 20 million JPY (which is roughly $150k) for less than 10% of equity
I’ve seen stories where people pitched 98 times at events, reached out to 146 investors, and got 145 “No” and a single “Yes”. How much energy and time were spent on that effort? Fundraising is really hard.
My journey is a bit different, and I hope that can give you more data and founder stories.
Here are lessons I learned and some takeaways:
- as a solo founder, there’s nobody else to hedge against or hide behind, you’re completely out there in the wild
- your army is your product, your execution power and you as a person
- show why you’re the best person to build your specific product
- when your personal story aligns with your startup vision, it resonates.
SewaYou is on a mission to help people unlock and multiply opportunities in life, relationship, and career by reaching an advanced level in foreign languages.
And that’s what happened to me: a foreigner who learns Japanese, landed in Japan, mastering the language and finally quitting my 9to5 job to pursue my dream to build a startup and contribute back to Japan that makes me grow as a person while building my startup.

So what now?

So that’s it, my journey from side hustling to fundraising as a solo founder with zero employee or cofounder.
But like they say: “Alone you go fast, together you go far”, it’s now time for SewaYou to go beyond a one-man show, so I will spend the investment money to start recruiting and build a small team.
I also have this in a video version if you prefer to listen, and also other stuff (like How I built my app part-time for 4 years etc) around building and growing a startup as a solo and foreign founder in Japan!
Thanks for reading so far! 😀

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What's up everyone? Today I gave a great training on five easy to implement PR tactics to get more eyes on your company so you don't have to hire a guy like me to do it for you.
PR is expensive depending on who you work with.
Here are some DIYs that anyone can do: The Local Network -Everyone knows someone with a podcast. Start making a list and reach out to be a guest if you are a good fit.
DIY Press Release - Google "press release format" and send to every news station in your area once its done. Press Releases are easy to learn and you can get one done in less than 30 minutes.
News Push - Find the call letters of your news station and google them with the word contact OR submit and you can pitch your news story to get an interview
At mentions on Twitter: Start at mentioning celebs, news sources, media, etc when you do business tweets and see what happens. Ever talk to Ice-T? I have.
5 Days of video - commit to shooting a FB live or IG story EVERY DAY for 5 days. Youll get new eyes on your business. Remember to add hashtags and a call to action with a sales page link or booking link in comments.
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I’ve been playing Infinite Warfare’s campaign recently as I’ve just picked the game up on sale, and whilst I’m playing the campaign, the game appears to save frequently and let me know when that save was made. However, twice now when I’ve come back to the game, I’ve lost 80% of the progress I’ve made and have been set back to the second or third mission. Has anyone dealt with anything similar before??
I think it’s unrelated but my first session, I was unlocking achievements for missions completed etc. however, on my second and third session, I haven’t unlocked any achievements that I’ve completed the in game requirement for?
I haven’t experienced this before, to my knowledge this doesn’t happen with other games either, are these experienced by other players? I’ve seen that one or two achievements are just glitched and unable to be unlocked, but not campaign ones?

DISCLAIMER: I will always be ready to trade, no matter how old this post is......Hello there, My name is "LasagnaMan3 and I'm a colector of glitcheds and Illegal Items, as such, I own a variety of items, from common to extremely rare, that almost no one owns. My intentions are to collect every single item in the game, and build an museum "The archive" that houses all of them.
I've come here to look for people who will trade or donate any items that I still don't have, in exchange, I will give an Item you don't own of same rarety.
My Collection until Now:
30-day land claim, wrench, thropy, debug-fileempty, mist, gold painter hat, pocket world basement, pocket world snow, gold chest (handplaced), debug npc, desert/ocean/swamp/evergreen/snow/grass cave entrances, temple, titanium chest, creature nest, small and large dark vains, arena, Mob -Big, Spawner-snow balls, Spawner -sticks, companion, waiting companion, pocket world evergreen, ancient pillars, small Ice shard vain, tea, TITANIUM CHEST, debug-Mob kingbandit, debug-mob elite bandit, Debug-mob-bandit, Debug-mod-stormwizard, stone wall, frozen pond, Egg, mystery egg, blank fossil, key, blank record, Infinite record disc, High age, Negative age bonsai and ? Bonsais, mod lanclaim, cloud; Black and white tophat, holaday lights, Unity trophy, bug finder trophy, hacked trophy, glitched outpost, blank painting, costum eggs, blue bob, wood rails corner, gold path, gold statue, brown rug, New stone slab, wood rails, dirt path, and cobblestone path, Death, Heart, blue blob, Amber and uranium Large vains, Dead companion, Egg sack, Blank Bone j, storm wizard blank, wisdow chest blank, red and green xp blobs
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Some background: I got into coffee shortly after the pandemic started, and for the first year+ I went through a bunch of equipment and brew methods. Off the top of my head, the stuff I tried in that time:

• Horrible Hario hand grinder that I returned (lol)
• 1zpresso JX Pro
• AeroPress
• V60
• Kalita
• Fellow Prismo
• Hario Switch

By the summer of 2021, I had started to really crave a home espresso solution. I did a lot of research and found that under ~$1000 or so, semi-auto/auto machines came with a lot of compromises. But in the ~$500 and under price range, there are a lot of manual espresso machines that can produce excellent espresso.
After surveying the options available, I ultimately landed on the Cafelat Robot. Compared to the competition, I felt it offered a number of advantages:

• Relatively compact design; even compared to something like the Flair it takes up less space on the counter
• Thermal management; the design of the Robot ensures that there is very little thermal mass contacting the brew
• Aesthetics; this is entirely subjective but I think compared to most other levers it is quite a bit more charming and cute (as opposed to industrial and serious)
• Maintainability; there is literally only one component on the Robot that ever actually needs maintenance or replacement and it's the gasket on the piston
• General ease of use / workflow; out of all the levers out there, the Robot is, IMO, the most well-designed and engineered in terms of user experience. If you look at something like the Flair, there are like 4-5 different pieces that you have to juggle around every time you use it. On the Robot, there are ostensibly 3 components (the brew basket, the "portafilter", and the Robot itself) but in practice it's really more like 2, as usually the brew basket is in the portafilter anyways. It's just super simple to use in every aspect, from setup to brewing to cleanup

In mid-2021 I bought a Robot (and upgraded my grinder to the Niche Zero, as the 1zpresso was really reaching its limits grinding for espresso) and since then I have not bought a single new piece of coffee equipment. I've gone through some periods here and there where I don't really make or drink coffee regularly, but for the most part I have pretty much used it every day.
The Robot has such a streamlined and easy workflow that I straight up don't use other brew methods anymore. I can pull a shot and be ready for another one within ~5 minutes. A V60 or even AeroPress takes around the same amount of time (or even longer).
And the best part: the Robot really does produce some stunning coffee! I'm at a point now where I'm so dialed in with my process that I regularly brew better espresso than I can get at ~90% of specialty cafes/roasters. My entire espresso setup is around $1000 USD (including the Robot, the Niche, and my kettle), and while that's a lot of cash, it's an order of magnitude less than what most cafes are spending.
Like I said, I've not felt a single urge to purchase new coffee equipment since acquiring my Robot + Niche setup. The results are so incredibly good, especially for how pleasant it is to use.

Hey guys, so, i recently bought a Switch lite and only have fire emblem engage and chained echoes, loved both. Looking for some games to expand, there's currently a sale going on the eShop but it doesn't have to be on sale.
I like every type of game almost but I have a PS5 so no AAA multiplataforms recommendations because I have probably played it already lol.
I'm just unsure about BOTW, watched some gameplay and looked a bit empty and slow for me, specially the breakable weapons. Also not a fan for most of Marios but Odyssey looks pretty cool.
Some things im interested in: some Pokemon (being ages since playing one, black was the last I think!), Kirby (the 3d one) and Astral Chain. Welp, looking forward for recommendations in general. THANKS!!

There are 2 separate clauses in the 8-K, specifically in Exhibit 10.2, regarding Short Sales activity of the new investor both prior to and during the new offering!!
Exhibit 10.2 (pg 10) : Article IV: Section 4.11:

Section 4.11. No Prior Short Sales. At no time prior to the date of this Agreement has the Investor, its sole member, any of their respective officers, or any entity managed or controlled by the Investor or its sole member, engaged in or effected, in any manner whatsoever, directly or indirectly, for its own account or for the account of any of its Affiliates, any (i) “short sale” (as such term is defined in Rule 200 of Regulation SHO of the Exchange Act) of the Common Stock or (ii) hedging transaction, in either case which establishes a net short position with respect to the Common Stock, warrants of the Company, preferred stock of the Company or any other security of the Company

Exhibit 10.2 (pg 30) : Article VI: Section 6.9:

Section 6.9. Selling Restrictions.
(i) Except as expressly set forth below, the Investor covenants that from and after the Commencement Date through and including the Trading Day next following the expiration or termination of this Agreement as provided in Article VIII (the “Restricted Period”), none of the Investor, its sole member, any of their respective officers, or any entity managed or controlled by the Investor or its sole member (collectively, the “Restricted Persons” and each of the foregoing is referred to herein as a “Restricted Person”) shall, directly or indirectly, (i) engage in any Short Sales of the Common Stock or the Company’s publicly traded warrants or the Company’s publicly traded preferred stock (ii) hedging transaction, which establishes a net short position with respect to the Common Stock or the Company’s publicly traded warrants or the Company’s publicly traded preferred stock, with respect to each of clauses (i) and (ii) hereof, either for its own account or for the account of any other Restricted Person.

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I have a question about the wording for the requirements for 141 Commercial certification for anyone who may be familiar with it.
14 CFR Appendix D to Part 141 Commercial Pilot Certification Course says that for an airplane single engine course you must fly 120 hours with at least 55 hours being with a CFI on certain subjects and the other 65 hours would then be completed solo.
The solo requirements state:
(a) For an airplane single engine course. Ten hours of solo flight time in a single engine airplane, or 10 hours of flight time while performing the duties of pilot in command in a single engine airplane with an authorized instructor on board. The training must consist of the approved areas of operation under paragraph (d)(1) of section 4 of this appendix, and include -
(1) One cross-country flight, if the training is being performed in the State of Hawaii, with landings at a minimum of three points, and one of the segments consisting of a straight-line distance of at least 150 nautical miles;
(2) One cross-country flight, if the training is being performed in a State other than Hawaii, with landings at a minimum of three points, and one segment of the flight consisting of a straight-line distance of at least 250 nautical miles; and
(3) 5 hours in night VFR conditions with 10 takeoffs and 10 landings (with each landing involving a flight with a traffic pattern) at an airport with an operating control tower.
My question is if I were to complete the 10 hours of solo flight time and requirements a(2-3) with my instructor, would the remaining 55 hours of solo flight time also have to be completed with my instructor as supervised PIC, or would I be free to do the remaining solo time on my own? And if it has to be supervised PIC, would anyone be able to point me to the regulation for it?

As with most details surrounding GTA 6, the storyline for the game is shrouded in mystery. However, there have been some rumors and speculations about what the game's narrative could be about.
One popular theory is that the game could take place in multiple locations, much like GTA 5 did with Los Santos and Blaine County. This would allow for a more expansive and varied story, potentially featuring multiple protagonists and intertwining storylines.
Another theory is that the game could take a more serious tone, exploring themes such as politics and corruption. This would be a departure from the more over-the-top and comedic tone of previous GTA games, but could potentially create a more compelling and thought-provoking narrative.
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Ultimately, the storyline for GTA 6 is anyone's guess at this point. However, it's safe to assume that Rockstar Games will continue to push the boundaries and create a narrative that is engaging, thought-provoking, and, above all, fun to play.
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Not sure if this changes by location, but this happened in Brunswick County, North Carolina.
My wife and I purchased a mirror from Egypt for $800 (it’s a huge mirror) and used it for decor on our wedding day. When we were on our honeymoon, my MIL had the mirror delivered to my parents’ house (who were also out of town for a couple weeks). My MIL accidentally gave my neighbors address, so it was delivered next door and my neighbors then brought it to a consignment store. The consignment store sold it for $300 to another couple getting married and said there’s nothing they can do.
I just want the mirror back and don’t even care if the other couple uses it. Not only was it very expensive, but it has sentimental value to us and we planned on keeping it for a long time. For some reason, my wife was dead set on having this mirror for our wedding day and I can’t explain the amount of time she spent finding it. She’s heartbroken and I don’t know what to do!!

Hey Beautiful Angels!
I cant make the Saturday show and have 2 tickets for sale for the late show at $100 each. The seats are Mezz Row C, seats 2/3.
DM me for details. I'm in Glenwood Springs so payment will have to be through venmo or zelle unless you're nearby.

Hi HW swap! I have an EVGA XC3 3080 with an EK waterblock (EK Quantum Vector + Backplate) I'm looking to sell right around the $800 mark + shipping (Math: $700 for the card, $100 for the Waterblock). I also have the original XC3 cooler that will be sent as part of the package.
I do not want to sell these items separately as I have a feeling I'll have a hard time getting rid of the waterblock absent the card.
For those in the DMV (I'm in NoVA if at all helpful for a local sale)
Timestamp - Card & Waterblock