I made it!

I am so excited to announce this. i have made it into the world of the rich!

It feels very good. i have got a very big business success. i make now several milions euros a year and is all automated, passive cashflow. i can finally help out to all those around me who i sweared i will help; my mom, my dad, my sister, my wife, my kids. my business helps other people too. my clients are highly benefited by my product and services. I have improved several thousands of peoples lives.

My wife is very happy and we can travel to Singapore and malaysia any time we want. Our kids are growing happy and with a lot of love. They will do great things for the world. they are citizens of the world and very smart. they understand that anything we want to achieve comes from within. and helping others is the best way to achieve our dreams.
I now live in the house of my dreams, with a huge swimmingpool, heated by solar energy, lots of palm trees and strawberries, golden kiwis, mangostines, chillis, banana trees. my house is environmentally friendly and has no eco footprint impact whatsoever. my house is alive, with plants growing on the rooftop and the walls. I have a beautiful and powerful hybrid car that consumes less than 2 l per 100km.

Over the last months i have been helping hundreds of entrepreneurs in poor countries with microloans and teaching them how to start and grow their business. some of them employ hundreds of people.

I am so grateful to myself. i am grateful to my organs who keep me alive and in good health all this time so i could achieve my stellar success. i am grateful to the planet earth, for being my host and allow me to enjoy beautiful things such as the oxygen, the water, the sunsets on the malaysian beaches and the watermelon-lemon juice.

The law of attraction is the secret of my success. i knew it for a long time but i did nothing about it. once i started visualizing my success everything came into place and everything that i wanted started to unfold beneath my eyes. I am so thrilled today to say that i have achieved my dreams. I got my pilot license, i have homes in the places that i care for, Sant Cugat del Valles, Singapore, Malaka and Switzerland and i am planning a trip to the stars in the coming weeks.

i have built beautiful relationships over this time that i appreciate and i am grateful for. I have make sure at any time that all my friends benefited in some way from our relationships. and i urge them to do the same with their own friends. one by one, we all can achieve what we want by helping others first and being grateful for it.

today i am the happiest man in the world and i will build on all this positive energy to achieve even more.

Dear reader, I wish you the best!

Books & mentors

If you are looking for some interesting books about entrepreneurship, investing and business, you can find my favorites in LibraryThing.com, a wonderful site to introduce all your books and get recommendations from readers with similar books in their personal libraries.

From the previous list the main books that have steered my mind are:

Rich dad poor dad (R. Kiyosaki); Biography of Richard Branson, The tipping point (Malcom Gladwell), D. Trump biography, The science of getting rich (W. D. Wallace),How to be rich (J.P. Getty) and Leadership and self deception (Arbinger institute)

One of the most important things to do if you are starting out in business is to find a mentor. Of course, i have tried that and is pretty tough, cause you have little to offer them. I follow the advice from R. Kiyosaki and offer my time to work for free in exchange of being there and see how they work, but it didn't work out. He was a very busy venture cap. it would have been great but anyway he did teach me a lot of things. By all means find a mentor. He/she will provide you with advise and contacts, CRITICAL for business success. on the meanwhile, read, read and read. books are your best mentors. Read about successful stories, entrepreneurs and history. get positive momentum from them to get started. This is how i am doing it.

I will be posting reviews of the good books i will read in the future, stay tuned!

After 3 years of search i have got a mentor. I get great advice from him. Actually the strength of a mentor is that he will make you think clearer than you can think by yourself. Is just a second view, powered by experience. Don't expect a mentor to solve your problems, he will guide you but you STILL will have to solve them.

MegaVending

Megavending is my first business venture.

I started it right after quiting my job at Attogenix, a biotech company in Singapore.

After I came back from Singapore to Spain, i was eager to start any business. specially those ones that make money without working much.... Then pretty fast I got a tip from my banker! he was investing in chewing gum mini-vending machines. I wasn't convinced at first but i took a look on the internet. It fitted exactly what i was looking for: low risk, low investment, high profits and work only 2-3 days a month. Obviously i plunged into it. I imagined a small and simple business plan (i didn't even wrote it) and started installing vending machines.



The first ten machines i installed were hard to install (it took me 1 month) and profits much less than expected but i didn't get discouraged. then i found some partners and pretty fast i was having 200 machines running in Barcelona. after a few weeks they let me down and the business stagnated at this 200 machines. Sales at first were acceptable (around 0.8 gum a day) making me a profit of 2400 euros a month. not bad considering i have to work only 3 days.

After one year, i still own the business and i still making some profit, is not much but it pays the rent and some expenses. Income have gone down because some machines has been stolen, and i have been forced to take some others back either because they don't sell enough or because the owner of the business hosting the machine is not interested.

Lessons i have learn from this business:
- Don't get overexcited with promises from business partners. don't commit resources until they prove their commitment. I realize people don't take any risk just by talking.
- the public likes novelty. new things excite customers, when they get bored with a product or service they simply change to something else.
- when facing a problem with somebody, a partner or a client, SMILE. think of this person as a beautiful person who wants the best for you, even if he is scolding you. This is really a good way of solving problems. POSITIVE THINKING WORKS!
- After some months i have become discouraged and lost interest on this biz until i read this quote from Bill Gates: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity. It has made me see my buiness under a whole new light. anyway this is my only source of income so i better take good care of it!

Mission Statement

Hello,

Welcome to my blog. I am an entrepreneur in the making. Actually i don't even know if I have what it takes to be an entrepreneur, but i am decided to find out!

There are so many books and blogs around of entrepreneurs that have achieved success. I guess when looking back they will tend to minimize mistakes and talk stories of success, But I haven't found a single one where somebody documents the process including the failures right now and then. Any entrepreneur knows that failures are the only opportunity to evolve, a chance offered to us to find solutions.

I write this blog mainly to organize my thoughts. You will be able to peek my mind and see how i go about investing, starting business, the books I read, crazy biz ideas i have, market trends that i am following and personal chapters too. I guess no need to say the following: feel free to comment on my postings!


David
Work hard for your luck!