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A refurbished claw machine costs about $1,200 less than new and earns the same. How depreciation, resale value and payback…

Protecting the Cash You Already Earned: The Unglamorous Half of a Cash Business

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A $40-a-week cash leak can cost a route an entire location's worth of sales. The seven links from machine to…

Building Confidence: Your Actionable Guide to Self-Assured Success

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As we navigate through the winding path towards financial independence, one important element that often gets overlooked is building confidence.…

The Bitcoin Reading Order I’d Hand a Skeptic (The Book That Convinced Me Is Third)

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Seven bitcoin and money books in the order I'd give a skeptic: the mainstream view first, then the case that…

Pitching a Bar Owner on an ATM Is Just Sales. Here’s the Part Nobody Practices.

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The machine isn't the scary part of an ATM route, the walk-in is. What commission sales taught me about pitching…

An Ice Vending Kiosk vs. a Rental Property: Same Money, Different Headaches

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A $90,000 ice vending kiosk out-earns a rental house on cash flow. But it depreciates and sits on someone else's…

A Pizza Vending Machine Is a Tiny Restaurant. Price It Like One.

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Turnkey pizza vending machines cost $75,000 to $110,000. I compare that to an index fund over ten years, and show…

Payback Period Is the Vending Number I Trust Most. Here Are the Four Ways It Lies.

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Claw machines to ice kiosks lined up by payback, plus the four ways the payback number misleads you and the…

A Machine That Only Sells Drinks, and the Case for Doing One Narrow Thing

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A $4,999 drinks-first AI cooler and when narrow beats general: match your offer to demand that already exists, then win…

One Great Machine or Two Good Ones? The Capital Question Behind AI Vending

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An AI cooler and a used combo can tie on percentage return and still differ by thousands a year. Why…

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