This is the story or Ramon van Meer, and how he went from having a difficult childhood, dropping out of high school, becoming a single father, and creating an internet business that went from $0 to 8.75 million in about 2 years.
Ramon always had an entrepreneurial spirit but he faced many failures before stumbling upon his final successful business.
After some brainstorming and testing, he decided to create a soap opera website, despite having no interest in watching soap operas himself.
He created the website, hired several freelance writers, and started promoting it. The goal was to make some money through advertisement.
The website, SoapHub, quickly gained a fanbase. Ramon’s goal was to make $100 a day, but the website surpassed his expectations, and after one year, it was making over $1,000 a day.
In less than two years, he started receiving offers to buy to buy the website, and finally, he sold it for 8.75 million.
The lesson that I got from this story is that there are all kinds of opportunities out there, and if you continue looking and trying, eventually you will find your own opportunity as well.
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