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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: cube talk]
#9343073 - 12/01/08 10:29 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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have you tried looking and seeing if anyone else has your idea?
Other wise i'd guess going to a venture capitalist would be your best bet, or an angel investor.
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: cube talk]
#9343083 - 12/01/08 10:30 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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It works just fine for me. As I said, I dont demand it of others.
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: blewmeanie]
#9343125 - 12/01/08 10:38 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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blewmeanie said: It works just fine for me. As I said, I dont demand it of others.
Believe me man, i'd love to just tell everyone all about it. But I need some money badly right now and in the near future to pay for my tuition not to mention some other things.
By no means whatsoever do I need to become a millionaire out of this ( although it wouldn't surprise me if it happened). It makes my heart warm to know that this is going to run quite a few companies out of business that from first hand experience I can tell are just trying to make money out of people, not help them.
Eventually, this is going to become common knowledge anyway. As the word gets out it's bound to happen. So i'm effectively running myself out of business, but much more happily, i'm running corrupted corporate tycoons out of business.
Especially those people that use actors on commercials to endorse their products ( i forget the name of the corporation ).
EDIT - proactiv... that's the name. I'm so sick of seeing that sh*t...
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: cube talk]
#9343163 - 12/01/08 10:45 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Probably the fastest and most efficient way to make money is design a website and charge for access.
I think the underlying problem is that you aren't really patenting something unique, but rather a method. I think you are looking at copyrighting, not patenting.
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: badchad]
#9343172 - 12/01/08 10:47 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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badchad said: Probably the fastest and most efficient way to make money is design a website and charge for access.
I think the underlying problem is that you aren't really patenting something unique, but rather a method. I think you are looking at copyrighting, not patenting.
Noted
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: badchad]
#9343326 - 12/01/08 11:18 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Yes a patent is a design of something new usually an invention.
I don't know exactly what cube talk has here but I'm pretty certain it would have to be copyrighted not patented.
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: Ego Death]
#9343384 - 12/01/08 11:30 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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the cure for acne is a natural diet and low-stress
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: boxcarguy07]
#9343436 - 12/01/08 11:40 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Theres a certain hormone that causes spots that you grow out of eventually although not everyone does.
Theres also many other causes such as not drinking enough water. Then theres the fact that people squeeze them to stop them hurting and they then spread. Just touching your face a lot can spread them. Under washing and equally over-washing make them worse!
Theres certainly no ointment miracle cure. In fact most of those so called "cures" make them worse.
Thats my first hand opinion from when I had spots as a teenager.
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: Ego Death]
#9343475 - 12/01/08 11:46 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Theres also many other causes such as not drinking enough water.
exactly
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: Atheist]
#9343533 - 12/01/08 11:54 AM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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How do you know your method works for everyone? Obviously many people have different dermatological needs. If its a simple method that anyone can do from their own home how do you even begin getting an edge on the market? Can you stretch it into a book?. It seems like you've just found something that works for you and want to try and make a quick buck out of it.
The acne medication market is prime time for snake oil medicines as well so there is already fierce competition according to my infomercial knowledge.
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: Irdamage]
#9343689 - 12/01/08 12:20 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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People make millions out of diet pills that actually do nothing.
People don't buy products people buy ideas. They buy the belief of what they think a product will do. Its sad but true.
Many people buy books like "How to start a business", "How to travel the world". Deep down they have no intention of actually doing it but consciously it temporarily for fills their dream.
I can sell a placebo and half my "patients" will be cured by it.
If you think about it a huge percentage of the retail market is based on nothing but belief. Look how many people buy creams to cure them with no scientific evidence they work. People buy perfumes because theirs an advert saying it makes you attractive. Paracetamol? Bottled water anyone?
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: Ego Death]
#9344330 - 12/01/08 02:07 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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What ego death said...
This thing doesn't even have to work, but if marketed correctly, could become a billion dollar business.
Look at proactiv and how they market it. They use stars like P diddy and jessica simpson to endorse their product. All the fans of those people will end up at least trying the product just because.
Proactiv in my opinion is just a load of bs. The way they put it on the market is what makes them tremendously successful.
And I know it will work with a good damn portion of the market if not all of it.
The real issue is the fact that it will become common knowledge after a while. But like I said, i'm not here to become one of those "rich get richer and poor get poorer" people. I personally would love to run proactiv and clean and clear out of business if it means a lot of this world will not have to deal with this filthy shit. God knows it kept me from doing a lot of things when I was younger that I wanted to do.
The trickiest part is how to make this book. The process itself is so simple, yet ideally I would like to stretch it out at least 100 pages if not more to make it seem like people need the book and all the details in it.
That's the hard part. How do I do that?
I think that maybe it's time to take a trip.
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: Ego Death]
#9344401 - 12/01/08 02:17 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ego Death said: People make millions out of diet pills that actually do nothing.
People don't buy products people buy ideas. They buy the belief of what they think a product will do. Its sad but true.
Many people buy books like "How to start a business", "How to travel the world". Deep down they have no intention of actually doing it but consciously it temporarily for fills their dream.
I can sell a placebo and half my "patients" will be cured by it.
If you think about it a huge percentage of the retail market is based on nothing but belief. Look how many people buy creams to cure them with no scientific evidence they work. People buy perfumes because theirs an advert saying it makes you attractive. Paracetamol? Bottled water anyone?
vitamin water anyone? 
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: cube talk]
#9344451 - 12/01/08 02:24 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Ahhhh the art of stretching 
Look at how some existing books have done it. Someone on the shroomery recommended a guide to getting wealthy - its in the money matters section somewhere. Its a book. I read the whole thing but I can tell you in a sentence what the whole book is saying "Stay positive, believe in yourself".
The book has broken it down into 10 or so major points and stretched these out with loads of examples and in-depth explanations but never actually deviates from the same point. Its was amusing to read but other people claimed to find it highly inspiring. The book was completely correct in its philosophy but its designed to sell to people who will probably never follow its philosophy. If you understand and follow the philosophy then you are out there making money from things such as books like this not sitting there enlightened by the thought for a few days.
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: Ego Death]
#9344530 - 12/01/08 02:33 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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ahh yes, perfect i mean perfect example.
I've read so many of those books.
Especially "the secret". I mean, i'm not saying that it's not true, but in order for that to work, i think you'd need more faith then Jesus had.... and that's saying something.
That and so many other books using the idea of the "power of thought" to just make yourself rich and get you believing it.
I think one method of doing it is to explain the process not in a step by step method in one chapter, but rather to string it out over many chapters with facts and storys in between without actually telling the viewer how stupid simple what he or she is really doing.
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: cube talk]
#9344533 - 12/01/08 02:34 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Fuck, PM me your cure. I'm 18 and stuck with some shitty acne still 
Not nearly as much as I used to, but like 3 blemishes at a time. Enough to piss me off.
I'll be your test dummy! Hahaha.
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: RasJeph]
#9344695 - 12/01/08 02:58 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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What really sucks the most, is that I can't simply tell you guys how to do this shit since i'm trying to make a living off of it now.
Like a guy in a pm told me, if I get this copyrighted and out on the market, i'll never have to work a day in my life.
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: cube talk]
#9344734 - 12/01/08 03:02 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Haha, yeah I know. I was just kidding anyway for the most part.
Good luck to you man!
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: RasJeph]
#9344811 - 12/01/08 03:13 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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Buy my book of secrets and my magic pill to be cured.
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Re: What if you discovered a cure for Acne? [Re: Ego Death]
#9344824 - 12/01/08 03:14 PM (15 years, 1 month ago) |
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My pill/book also cures erectile dysfunction and weight loss.
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