Axe Me Anything
Laughing Beachy Goofballs
Whiskey + Sunset
Starting August 1, 2020, I launched one new startup every day for 31 days in a row. Yep, 31 brand spanking new companies. No business plans drawn up. No money raised. No teams assembled. No website created—nothing done ahead of time. Zero. Zip. Zilch. Lean and mean. 100% transparent. 100% open. One new idea was selected each day from 350+ business ideas scribbled down over the last 18 years, aka the Dunning Kruger Project.
31 startups launched over 31 days with the idea of getting as many as possible to cashflow positive by Monday, November 30. Every startup I’ve launched since 1989 has been cashflow positive in 90 days or less, but can I do that with 31 startups? We’ll see.
Is this for real? Yes. Am I joking? No. Am I nuts? We’ll see. Why am I doing this? Well, there are 55 million newly unemployed people in the US alone. There is continuing economic upheaval. There are tense racial, political, and personal divisions among us. There is a global pandemic. Is this the worst possible time to launch and grow a startup? Yes. Could it be the best possible time? Yes.
People have asked me for 31 years, how can I get my startup to cashflow positive, without raising money or writing a business plan? I plan to answer that question by building 31 startups in the open to demonstrate how it can be done.
I hope you start your own company, make some great money, and hire people. We’re all in this together, folks. Worldwide. All of us. If you care to join the 90 Days to Cashflow Positive community, please join us. Listed below is a list of the 31 startups.
Be well. <M>
Tillamook Axe Company (Day 1)
High quality wooden axe throwing targets
underdog.vc (Day 2)
Funding underestimated founders at the idea/earliest stages
Artist Coast Retreat (Day 3)
Coastal tiny cabin retreat free for visiting artists from around the world
Quarantine Table Read (Day 4)
Professional actors & actresses reading scripts & getting paid
Fundenstein (Day 5)
One crowdfunding campaign per month, that’s it.
Walden for Founders (Day 6)
Luxury container community living for startup founders & entrepreneurs
Founder Growth Book Club (Day 7)
Monthly book club helping founders accelerate revenue growth
Cowworking (Day 8)
Invite a cow to your Zoom meeting
Buck Naked Startup (Day 9)
Open startups, building in public and transparently embracing their journey, mistake, lessons & progress
Monster in a Box (Day 10)
Out of this world product packaging design
chari-t-shirt (Day 11)
Limited edition well designed t-shirts for positive social change
Into the Wild Swag Bag (Day 12)
Great founders are like rockstars & celebrities, now they get swag too
Family Finance Meeting (Day 13)
Structured monthly family finance meetings
Land of the Giants & Terror in Tiny Town (Day 14)
Tiny books for big brains that want to learn a little something fast
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer & Startups (Day 15)
Entrepreneurs & founders drinking whiskey and talking startups, like Drunk History, but startupy
Exit Path (Day 16)
Helping you sell your company, the right way, not the Sisyphus way
Family Pot, Beware the Donk (Day 17)
One million founders gathering online or in person to help each other out
Simplicity Hootenanny: Henry David Axe Thoreau (Day 18)
Carefully crafted simplicity system designed to break down complex things
Whiskey Koan: Stairway to Whiskeyville (Day 19)
Beautifully designed handcrafted, hand-blown whiskey drinking vessels (10% to nonprofits)
CSR for a Better World (Day 20)
Design, create and build successful high profile Corporate Social Responsibility programs
Founders Need S’more Help: HARO to HAFO? (Day 21)
Simple way to help a founder overcome a current challenge
Darth Elevator: Avoiding the Stairway to Nowhere (Day 22)
90 second founder pitch videos for investors, peers, and entrepreneurial supporters
Red Hot Leads, Ice Cold Beer, No Monkey Wrenches Please (Day 23)
Media buying, CPC ads and great content bringing the right conversations to you
Thru Mzungu Eyes: Growth School Online (Day 24)
Growing your startup from the comfort of your living room
Startup Blimp Hangar Gathering (Day 25)
Deeply curated invitation only experience for 99 founders in an extremely unusual location
Startup Founder Hot Seat (Day 26)
90 minutes of powerful help from founders who’ve had multiple exits
Popup Drive-in (Day 27)
Manifesting the drive in experience in strange and unusual places
Crookies (Day 28)
Cookies made by ex-felons, they’ve paid their dues to society, now time for sweet treats, raisins can simply just f#ck off
Resolution Kit (Day 29)
Setting, working towards, and achieving the things you really want in and out of life
Submerged.com co-op holacracy (Day 30)
Community driven co-op based product or service
Edgy Ned & the SoundSpace (Day 31)
Beard Season is Approaching
Farewell Inca our Lovebug
Ready for Wimpy Burgers at the Upstair