Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris?

Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by utnick on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @02:19PM (#280618)

In interviews he makes it clear that you he doesnt think you should literally work only 4 hours. Especially when u are starting up a business.

Its more about building a business that can be run on autopilot. Its a lot harder to build a business while on autopilot.

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Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by mattmaroon on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @02:57PM (#280680)

I have a couple side businesses that do pretty well and run on auto pilot. I don't even spend 4 hours a month on them. I could work full time on them and double the profit probably, but it wouldn't be worth it.

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Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by gasull on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @03:19PM (#280708)

This is the kind of stuff I want to read about. Are your side businesses technology-oriented?

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Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by mattmaroon on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @07:52PM (#281001)

Online poker.

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Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by jrsims on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @03:07PM (#280692)

Links?

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Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by fbailey on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @05:20PM (#280851)

not his example, but I made sth like 5000€ last year from this site http://lottoliste.de/ which is basically a list of german online lottery offers, I just did a price comparison and bought some adwords. Since all these sites offer lifetime affiliate payments I make like 100€ a month for 0 hours.

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Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by mattmaroon on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @07:52PM (#281000)

rakesucks.com and thestarsexchange.com. Please note that I didn't do the design for either. As embarrassing as they look, they make pretty good money.

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Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by izaidi on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @08:02PM (#281009)

That second one took a couple tries to parse. For a second I thought you were in the sex change business.

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Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by mattmaroon on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @09:04PM (#281066)

I wish, it would probably be more profitable. Too labor intensive though.

I knew about that interpretation of the name going in, but thought it might help. No way of knowing if it has or not, but the site does surprisingly well, so it at least isn't killing it.

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Re:Any startups following the philosophy of the book The 4-H... by notauser on Tuesday August 19, 2008 @02:53PM (#280674)

By shaving the 'y' and 'o' from every instance of 'you' it is possible to cut so much fat out of the working week that just 4 hours gives you time to build a fortune 500 company in a month.

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