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Toward $1,000 a Month — February Status Report

January has just passed and it’s terrifying to realize that one month of my twelve-month goal of earning $1,000 a month has already passed. I’ve made slight progress, but need to do much, much more. Here are the charts for January:

For expenses, the bill to renew my domain names came up, accounting for [...]

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Toward $1,000 a Month: Expansion Plans

Quick reminder: the goal is to reach $1,000 a month of web income by January, 2010
Currently I run three websites, this one, Silver Clipboard and Miscellanea. Given my time constraints, it’s hard to see how I could start anymore, so if I want to go from a net loss of $144 to a profit [...]

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$1,000 a Month Goal – December Status Report

Quick reminder: the goal is to reach $1,000 a month of web income by January, 2010
For nearly seven years now, I’ve been playing around with my websites. I’ve pulled in a little income from advertising, but I never really wanted to add up the figures. This way I could tell myself I [...]

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Public and Humiliating Failure

One of the most interesting things we’ve discovered… is that [people] are more motivated by the fear of looking bad than by the hope of getting millions of dollars. So if you want to get millions of dollars, put yourself in a position where failure will be public and humiliating. —Paul Graham
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