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Where to make rich friends? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by king_chain_mail@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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I'm starting to realize that to get rich, one needs to hang out with rich people but I'm not sure where to meet them. The only places I can think of are Silicon Valley and New York (no I don't know where in New York they are).

Why have rich friends?

If they didn't make the money themselves, they at least know people who did can learn from them
They're the ideal customer because they can pay more for the same product

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[–] terserterseness@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Really depends what you have to offer. I'm not very rich but rich enough (and an entrepreneur -> how I got rich) for people to bother me with ideas or plans etc but have nothing in return.

Most obvious and most commoni; 'I have this plan, but I cannot do anything myself' and then trying to get ideas, strategies, money etc from me. Thing is ; I have the people, the tech knowledge, the marketing knowledge *and* the money to make things from scratch and make them work. So what do I need you for? The successful collabs I had was, what you said, if some has a great product; my companies can be the first paying users, but i will want something in return. As i'm an entrepreneur, I will bank on your success with me 'investing' (being a first mover and having more patient for bugs etc than other paying clients would have) so I will want a % in the company owning the product. Another way which I have done, is if somehow has an idea and indeed can at least build it themselves.

But people doing cold-call sales on me because they know i'm rich and indeed 'pay more for the same product' I sniff our quickly and indeed will never waste my time on.