Tim Schultz @TimSchultz99

George Foreman says a countertop grill paid him as much as $5 million a month. In 1999, its manufacturer agreed to pay $137.5 million for the permanent worldwide right to keep using his name on its appliances. By then Foreman had already made one of the strangest second acts in sports. He returned to boxing after a ten-year retirement, regained the heavyweight title at 45, and turned the intimidating fighter of the 1970s into one of the most trusted faces on television. A friend watched companies pay Foreman to appear in commercials and asked why he kept making other brands successful instead of getting his own product. The product they found was a small two-sided grill. Foreman did not receive a large guaranteed endorsement fee. He and his partners formed a joint venture whose payoff depended on the grill actually selling. At first, Foreman barely touched the prototype. His wife cooked him a burger on it, the fat drained away, and he agreed to put his name behind it. The first royalty check was about $1,500. The next was $15,000. Then the product moved from infomercials into millions of kitchens. “The checks were coming in $5 million a month.” That is the financial difference between renting a reputation and participating in what it sells. A normal endorsement pays the celebrity a fee. Foreman's arrangement let the payment rise with the product. Eventually those recurring payments became expensive for Salton. Its financial filing says the company paid $137.5 million in cash, stock and a promissory note for perpetual worldwide appliance rights to the George Foreman name. The filing says the transaction eliminated substantial royalty expense. Foreman had spent decades being paid to fight and a few years being paid when somebody bought a grill. The second arrangement made him more money. Watch the former heavyweight champion explain how a product he almost ignored began sending him checks worth millions every month.

The collateral side is where this gets really interesting. If tokenized equities keep growing, lending protocols could have a serious new market on their hands

jfab @josefabregab

2 days ago

There is $3.92B in tokenized stocks, up 715% YoY, per @tokenterminal. However, only 2.1% of supply was being used as collateral, or ~$83M, according to @Blockworks. Even if tokenized-stock supply stopped growing, increasing collateral utilization to 10% would create ~$392M in

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Two apps and paying customers in 60 days is pretty impressive. Love seeing a side project turn into something real

Dante @dantegaleazzi

3 days ago

is building in public dead? You decide. real numbers from posting for 60 days👇 >700 → 2,059 followers >206 posts >2,502 replies >186K impressions >200+ users >4 paying users I became a reply guy, replied 12x more than i posted. but the best part isn't in the numbers. 60

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When a stock jumps after earnings, I'd check the company's numbers first before scrolling through ten posts guessing what actually moved the price that morning

When everyone expects every dip to bounce, having cash ready feels pretty important. Markets can humble a lot of people in a hurry 😬

Dante @dantegaleazzi

3 days ago

is building in public dead? You decide. real numbers from posting for 60 days👇 >700 → 2,059 followers >206 posts >2,502 replies >186K impressions >200+ users >4 paying users I became a reply guy, replied 12x more than i posted. but the best part isn't in the numbers. 60

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That's infuriating People putting their work out for free to help others should be able to trust it won't get flipped for someone else's profit.

Xuliya Customizable Model - OUT NOW! @xuliya_ya

5 days ago

I REALLY HATE THESE PEOPLE. 💔 This Etsy shop stole my FREE VTuber model from BOOTH, which I created and shared for free to help other VTuber artists, and is now SELLING IT to make a profit?! I made this model to help creators, not for someone to steal my work and profit from

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A good DJ who can read the room is worth every dollar if people leave already talking about coming back next weekend with friends.

Kalz @deejaykalz__

6 days ago

THE BIGGEST MISTAKE BAR OWNERS ARE MAKING LATELY 1. Bar owners are confusing CONTENT CREATORS with DJs. They are NOT always the same thing 2. A viral video gets people to scroll. A great DJ keeps people stay for 4 hours. Those are completely different Jobs 3. A club has no

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Bitcoin is 94.5% of $MSTR's assets. For Metaplanet it's 98%. MSCI's new rule drops companies whose real businesses are tiny next to what they hold. If cut, index funds must sell, about $2.8B of MSTR, per JPMorgan. Less demand for the stock means less cash to buy BTC. Cut 'em.

If you're getting paid in stablecoins for a side hustle, do you leave the money onchain for expenses or cash it out right away?

ZEC pumping 11% while its ETF bleeds another $15m

Still at the desk messing with some code. Told myself I'd stop an hour ago

📊 BitradeX Insight Three crypto stories worth catching up on this week: • 📉 Bitcoin slipped below $82K as market volatility picked up, triggering a fresh wave of long liquidations. • Kraken’s parent company, Payward, agreed to acquire Saldo Bank, taking another step toward offering traditional banking services alongside crypto trading. • Ripple and Privy announced a partnership to bring embedded wallets to the XRP Ledger, making it easier for apps to integrate crypto wallets. From market volatility to new banking services and easier wallet access, crypto keeps moving forward. #BitradeXInsight #Crypto #Bitcoin

New tokenized stock listings: Securitize expands its onchain product suite on Solana with 12 mega-cap & other prominent U.S. stocks, including Nvidia, Apple & Microsoft. Each token is backed 1:1 by a share, preserving dividend & voting rights, where applicable.

Those shooting stars are worth watching, but markets can humble anyone reading too much into a chart. Keeping some dry powder makes sense here

The Great Martis @great_martis

a week ago

“Prepare during sunshine, not during the eye of the storm.” ☀️⛈️ - T.G.M. 2007 For the tech-savvy, tech-inclined, and tech-seasoned… 📊 A technician looks for clues, and it takes experience, know-how, and the deliverance of time and experience. Nevertheless, I shall not

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Keeping control of your business has real value. Investor money can bring pressure to chase returns, even when that pulls you away from why you started

Scott D. Clary @scottdclary

a week ago

Alex Tarnava says almost every founder he's talked to has regretted taking investor money. Not because the money wasn't useful, but because it changed what they were allowed to do with the business. The funding comes with an obligation to return profit. When that obligation

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Watching stocks jump around right after inflation numbers come out makes me want to wait until the afternoon before placing any trades

AVAX ETF flows are worth keeping an eye on. Sustained demand could get interesting if on-chain activity starts picking up over the next few weeks too.

Mundo cripto @world_cript

a week ago

🚨 $AVAX: CAPITAL IS FLOWING IN! ⚡ Avalanche #ETFs recorded $2.52M in net inflows during Oct. 5–9, led by purchases on Oct. 8. But on-chain signals remain mixed. Can sustained inflows fuel the next AVAX breakout? 🐂 Bullish momentum or just a short-term bounce? #Crypto #Alt

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That first customer is proof someone wants what you're offering. Figuring out the numbers and sticking with it takes real patience when you're building a business from scratch

Flourish @Zaccheaus002

a week ago

I once started a business that taught me a lesson I wish I'd learned earlier. In 2021, I started a cleaning business. I was working during the day, but I wanted something more for myself, so I decided to try my hands at business. I made flyers. I got business cards. I created

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Percentage-based rankings can make the picture pretty misleading. Account size belongs in the mix too if we're trying to compare traders fairly across wallets. 📊

GodAir @dang_duytan

a week ago

A leaderboard can look objective while rewarding the wrong thing. @zerufinance recently highlighted a problem with percentage based trading rankings. When performance is measured only by returns relative to account size, a small account can dominate the rankings while traders

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I love watching a stock react to earnings guidance in the first few minutes, when traders are still figuring out what the next quarter might look like