Although the content is product-focused, it offers useful insights applicable to other industries.
A key point to keep in mind is to be cautious of companies with easy admission processes (those that readily send out offers), as they tend to have hidden pitfalls.
From a consumer’s perspective, be wary of any advertising—especially high-ticket offers. You can’t assume they’ll actually deliver results.
From a business standpoint, if you dare to think and act, there’s no venture you can’t profit from.
One widely circulated rule is the “5-3 Rule.” “5-3” means spending no more than three years at any one company over a five-year period; too many job changes signal instability to recruiters.
There’s a huge demand for profitable business ideas. You could build a startup website that shares real-world project postmortems, then drive users to add your WeChat to buy projects—then upsell them into a two-tier affiliate program (making them your sub-affiliates). One example I’ve seen is making nearly ¥200 per day from second-tier affiliate sales on a single project.
Successful people bet on one team in their first dozen or so years, or rather, put all their eggs in one basket.
The基数 was too small, and their capital was too little. If you spread out such a tiny capital, even if you were right every time, it would take five hundred years to achieve success — and nobody lives that long.