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Re: Selling time vs selling product
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2022 7:17 am
by Gavster
Explosive Newt wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 6:09 pm
You just need to invent a thing, patent it and spin out a company that makes it and sells it.
Easy peasy.
I've already got one licencing agreement with a university for some IP we developed, however it's a very specialist niche product aimed at food policy makers, so very limited market and no way I'm retiring on that one!
Or I just need to write the next Seinfeld and wait for those syndication deals
Re: Selling time vs selling product
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2022 7:19 am
by Gavster
Jimmy Choo wrote: ↑Tue Jun 21, 2022 8:17 pm
So it sounds like you want to separate your time from your money. I know a couple of people who have successfully done it. One set up a luxury French canal barge holiday that costs probably well upwards of $40k per week at the moment.
The other wrote and self published books. They do a bit of marketing for them but it ticks over.
No.1 - do they own a barge which they host people on for holidays?
No.2 - that's actually on my to-do list. About a quarter way through researching the book right now.
Re: Selling time vs selling product
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2022 11:53 am
by Jimmy Choo
Gavster wrote: ↑Wed Jun 22, 2022 7:19 am
No.1 - do they own a barge which they host people on for holidays?
Yes and no. Jim did an MBA for which he focused on a luxury holiday barge as a business and assembling a team to run it. He's very hands off now and has other passion projects he does. He's also written a book with his mate.
http://www.canalbargecruises.com/the-ba ... voir-vivre