**Plastic Moving Bin Rentals**
Everyone knows moving sucks. The worst part is being stuck with 400 cardboard boxes at the end of your move.
Instead - @benmlevy told me about Gorilla Bins. They dropoff plastic moving bins, & pickem up later.
If you're a college student who wants to pay off all your loans... here's an idea for you:
It takes ~$5k to start and will make ~$30k a year of profit
It won't get you rich, it'll pay for college.
(..and will teach them more about business than they’ll learn in school)
**Plastic Moving Bin Rentals**
Everyone knows moving sucks. The worst part is being stuck with 400 cardboard boxes at the end of your move.
Instead - @benmlevy told me about Gorilla Bins. They dropoff plastic moving bins, & pickem up later.
To do that, I think we’ll need $50k in revenue.
The avg move (a 2 bedroom apartment) is $180
To hit our goal, we need do ~5.5 moves per week
How many bins do we need to buy up front?
5.5 moves a week x 50 bins = you need 275 bins. Let’s round up to 300 to be safe.
Ok let’s hop over to @uline to see how much these bins cost
$15 x 300 bins = $4,500 initial startup costs.
Time to beg your parents or a rich aunt to lend you money to get the biz rolling (...or just take $5k of student loan money and invest it here…)
You buy the bin for $15. Each move, you're renting it out for ~$3.50 per bin
~4 moves and it’s paid off.
Over a 2 year lifespan, the bin will get rented out ~100 times, for ~$350 in revenue
That’s a 23x return on investment, per bin!
People waste a ton of time on naming, branding, incorporating. We’re going to do ALL that stuff in an hour, for like < $300.
We want a simple name. Like the moving company Two Guys & A Truck.
Bin Bueno?
The Miami Bin Company?
….wait..
Miami Bin Boyz !
Name is available for $1/mo!
Just type in the name and what it does..and it spits out some logos.
OK it gave us 3 options… I like #2 with the wave logo the best.
I hate overpaying lawyers for basic stuff.
If I'm getting sued. I'll pay top prices.
But for basic legal paperwork? Upcounsel baby.
$300 bucks for something like this.
Such a great business 👏 👏 @XavierHelgesen @SievaKozinsky
We bought 300 bins, and branded them with stickers from @stickermule .
Now we just need customers (aka the hard part)
Well we’re shooting for $50k in revenue
$4,500 for bins
$500 for misc startup costs
~$8k in labor (pickup & dropoff bins) per year
If college costs $30k a year, that leaves you about $7k for a marketing budget.
In most cities, there’s nobody advertising for the keywords “moving bin rental + [cityname]”
eg. miami, the company advertising doesn't even serve Miami!
1) Take this concept and franchise it to students in other college towns
2) add on a moving truck service to increase profits
3) or sell self storage leads to guys like @sweatystartup
For less than < $5k of startup costs, you’ve built a business that will profit >$30k a year.
You’ve paid for college, and probably will learn way more doing this than anything you’ll learn in the classroom.
I break down ideas & businesses like this every week!
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1/18 After 3 months, @saffronfinance_ is no longer new on the scene. Now that the kid has climbed the ranks, it's time to see if he can hang with the big boys.
Below are some updated thoughts on potential integrations, improvements, and innovations for Saffron moving forward. ⬇️
2/18 First, if you haven't seen @Privatechad_'s alpha-leaking introductory thread, you should check it out.
I agree that @AlphaFinanceLab and @CreamdotFinance, specifically the Iron Bank, would be ideal targets for SFI risk tranches.
3/18 Speaking more broadly, Saffron is primarily integrated with @compoundfinance, which has served as a MVP of sorts.
The thing is, Compound is one of the safest (but also lowest yield) protocols in DeFi, so it's not surprising that there isn't much demand for the sen. tranche.
4/18 Expanding beyond Compound to higher-risk/higher-return protocols has always been key.
These protocols are the bread-and-butter target market for Saffron, and I would expect to see a surge in demand for senior tranche staking in these
5/18 Additionally, @DeFiGod1 convinced me that Senior Tranche pools would be more appealing if they offered fixed yield.
Essentially, Saffron would augment the product offerings of @Barn_Bridge by also offering senior stakers insurance in the form of junior tranche collateral.
Below are some updated thoughts on potential integrations, improvements, and innovations for Saffron moving forward. ⬇️
1/11 @saffronfinance_ ($SFI) is DeFi's new kid on the block with its tranched yield product that is already live with DAI on @compoundfinance. https://t.co/JpqnxhwrDw
— Benjamin Simon (@benjaminsimon97) November 19, 2020
2/18 First, if you haven't seen @Privatechad_'s alpha-leaking introductory thread, you should check it out.
I agree that @AlphaFinanceLab and @CreamdotFinance, specifically the Iron Bank, would be ideal targets for SFI risk tranches.
15/. 3. Though not the focus atm, interest from various projects and integrations are happening.
— Private Chad (@Privatechad_) February 1, 2021
* Chainlink reached out (props to the amazing $LINK team).
* Talks with $ALPHA and rumored upon V2 releases there will be a collaboration.
*Cream integrations in v2
* $COMP tranches pic.twitter.com/IXCtzvSkw7
3/18 Speaking more broadly, Saffron is primarily integrated with @compoundfinance, which has served as a MVP of sorts.
The thing is, Compound is one of the safest (but also lowest yield) protocols in DeFi, so it's not surprising that there isn't much demand for the sen. tranche.
4/18 Expanding beyond Compound to higher-risk/higher-return protocols has always been key.
These protocols are the bread-and-butter target market for Saffron, and I would expect to see a surge in demand for senior tranche staking in these
4/11 Imo, the golden egg will be vault platforms like @iearnfinance, @picklefinance, etc.
— Benjamin Simon (@benjaminsimon97) November 19, 2020
Recently, some of these higher risk platforms (e.g. @harvest_finance) have been hit with a wave of attacks.
Saffron will enable cautious investors to use these products with peace of mind.
5/18 Additionally, @DeFiGod1 convinced me that Senior Tranche pools would be more appealing if they offered fixed yield.
Essentially, Saffron would augment the product offerings of @Barn_Bridge by also offering senior stakers insurance in the form of junior tranche collateral.
A 🧵on the basics of block and bulk deals.
Block and bulk deals are large purchases of stocks by investment banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, FIIs, and promoters. Tracking block and bulk deals can help give you a sense of what these large players are thinking.
A single transaction where shares more than Rs 10 crores or the number of shares traded are more than 5 lakh is considered a block deal.
Block deals are carried out in separate trading windows. This trading window operates in two shifts of 15 minutes each:
Morning trading window from 8:45 AM to 9:00 AM.
Afternoon trading window from 2:05 PM to 2:20 PM
Block deals happen in different windows to reduce volatility and sudden price movements. Given that they are traded in a separate window, they do not show up on the volume charts.
Brokers facilitating the transaction are required to inform the exchange. You can track bulk and block deals on NSE & BSE:
https://t.co/pwTyzWTnUL
https://t.co/g9BbHiEag3
Block and bulk deals are large purchases of stocks by investment banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, FIIs, and promoters. Tracking block and bulk deals can help give you a sense of what these large players are thinking.
A single transaction where shares more than Rs 10 crores or the number of shares traded are more than 5 lakh is considered a block deal.
Block deals are carried out in separate trading windows. This trading window operates in two shifts of 15 minutes each:
Morning trading window from 8:45 AM to 9:00 AM.
Afternoon trading window from 2:05 PM to 2:20 PM
Block deals happen in different windows to reduce volatility and sudden price movements. Given that they are traded in a separate window, they do not show up on the volume charts.
Brokers facilitating the transaction are required to inform the exchange. You can track bulk and block deals on NSE & BSE:
https://t.co/pwTyzWTnUL
https://t.co/g9BbHiEag3
