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You going to go full-time on it and invest all $100k or looking to start a side gig?

Don't be fooled though, there is no "surest route to success". Whatever you're actually interested in and where you can bring the most expertise will likely be your "surest route", if there was such a thing.

"Out the garage is how you end up in charge It's how you end up in penthouses, end up in cars, it's how you Start off a curb servin', end up a boss"
 

$10K buy in to WSOP main event poker is potentially $8 million for first place... easy money riiiiight

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee

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