ENTRY 005: Financing Your Dreams

June 7th, 2025 currently in my generation for the middle class and the lower class it's a bit of a struggle and confusion to start a business. Finance/money be the main reason.


On one hand, you have people telling you, you don't need money to start a business, to chase a dream, do whatever. On the other hand, you have some someone telling you, OPM, other people money. Then you have the thing of scared money, don't make money.


Then you also have, you have to take risk in order to do better and follow your dreams. Now, here's a couple of things. Now, I can break down actually both of those scenarios and why.


So let's take it back to you don't need money in order to make money or to follow a dream or to produce your idea. So let me help you understand both of those statements in case during the time you come across these recordings, you're in the same situation or you know someone, a family, or friend, that had the same or similar situation or idea, whether you have money or you don't. So the thing of you don't need money to make money or the start a business or to do whatever, to cash 22 to that.


I'm going to tell you here and right now, you need money to do any and everything in America. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be your money. That's the OPM, other people's money.


But you do need money, no matter where you get it from, how you get it, whatever the case may be, Money has to be involved. So when you starting out, let's say, for example, you don't have a creative bone in your body, but you have a brilliant business mind or idea or way to do things. It's like, okay, now you need to find someone that can make your dream or vision come to life or to put it out there. and you might not have the money to do so.


So here's where you might have to find someone that you can work something out with. Or you have to get the money up in order to pay that person to make your idea and your dream happen. In any case of scenario is the same thing, vice versa.


Someone can be very creative, but they might not have the business mind or the marketing or the finance to make something happen, but they can actually create whatever that they need done and put the concept out there, but they don't know how to actually sell it or get the money for it. So it's like a lot that goes on with that. And where I'm at right now, I've been on both sides of the fence.


But right now, I'm going to do things differently for what I have going on. I got to get the money up to actually make my dreams and my goals to come true and the bigger picture. And I know what you're probably thinking.


Why don't you just crowdfund it? The thing about crowdfunding is that crowdfunding is for a specific project or product, meaning you have this single idea, this single business, a single product that people are going to invest in or they get something for it or they have like an early version of production of it. And I know what you're thinking.


Well, if your project isn't there that, what you have or what you're doing, yes and no. You see each of my projects are for different things. They're not just for this one.. one, what would I say? I guess one piece.


Like they all do different things in different categories for different reasons. When as when you're crowdfunding something, that one thing or that thing, even if it's several things, it comes together for this one. And now in most cases, especially if people go through Kickstarter.


Kickstarter at the time of this recording was a place where you can actually raise money for a specific product or idea that you have. And again, it's just one. It's that and there was another one.


Was it GoFundMe? I think it was GoFundMe. I think it's GoFundMe.


I think GoFundme is similar to Kickstarter. Yeah, GoFundMe came before Kickstarter, and then Kickstarter came out to compete with GoFundMe. Now, the difference between GoFundMe and Kickstarter is is with GoFundMe, no matter what, you actually get the money and you can raise funds for whatever that you want to do.


Kickstarter, the people that's supporting you, which are called backers, they don't actually have to pay you until you reach your actual goal that you set to raise. So, and GoFundMe you're going to get the money regardless of you reaching your goal, your real goal or whatever that you had to do. Whereas in Kickstarter, if you don't reach your initial goal that you set, let's say, for example, you have a goal of $10,000.


But you only raise $9,980 Kickstarter does not care. You did not hit that 10K. You do not get funded. All the money goes back to your backers.


Come and try again. Whereas in GoFundMe, you still get the money. And you're not really obligated to like do whatever. That's on you. 

With Kickstarter, they provide that safety. And see that's the competitive edge.


When doing business and especially if you're going to have to go against a competitor, well known, you have to have a competitive edge. Kickstarter competitive edge was safety, protection for the backers. That way, they don't get burned or feel some type of way or feel like they're doing a scam or going to be part of a scam and all of that, which works out for them.


But sometimes things can still happen that's out of their control and that's just business. That's just what you get into. But that's the thing about them.


Now, back to the whole crowdfunding thing and the raising money, again, it's for that specific thing, so you're good. But here's the thing also, for those to really be a success, because even if it's still going on now when you're hearing this, I don't want you to be like, oh, I'm about to do going to do that. We about to get this money.


I'm going to be good. No, it's a lot of planning, timing that goes in into actually running a successful campaign and a successful Kickstarter campaign at that. You have to at least be known within your field, within your product that you're trying to create and that you need for funding for.


That always helps. And this comes from you building your followings. And doesn't necessarily have to be social media.


It could have been anything, whether it was social media, emails, lists, your customers, whatever. It's like you have things that you're trying to expand on, but you need the funds to do this and you would direct them there and then they would spread the word and so on and so forth. That's why if you just have an idea right now, you're not known and it's not known, you're just going to come off as somebody that's trying to get money to do something that we don't trust you, and you're going to take the risk of not really having a successful campaign.


Now, for me, where I'm at and how we do things, right? I can't really raise money.. well I can raise money, and I am and I will. But with that being said, instead of crowdfunding, what people like me have or do is called trap'n?


Now, trap'n is the alternative of hustling. Because see, when you're a hustler and you're hustling, you don't really have a goal, per se. It's like you're just doing it to get money, to make money.


You enjoy the feel of making money and the selling a product and moving something. And sometimes also, there's the bad side of the word hustle, or hustling. When you hustle somebody, you got over on them.


You don't care what it was or what it takes. Look, I get my money. You go off, that ain't got nothing to do with me.


It is what it is. I got my money. I'm good.


But the good part of it is that, you know what I'm saying? With hustlers, it's like, you just getting money, you look good, you feel good. You man, breaking bread with whatever.


Your team, everybody, man, yeah, getting A. anything that they want, dreamed of, whatever, and sometimes it depends on what you was hustling. You're the dark side of that, where your competitors is not just another person in the office, you hear me? And it ain't just a step on the toe and a slap on the wrist.


It's a lot of things that come with that. Now, trap'n, trap'n is the financial backing of a street entrepreneur. See, we're trying to reach a profit now.


And we have a reason and a goal for that. We're trying to get money up to pursue our dreams, our goals to start this business because it has to get funded no matter what. And we need the money to do this.


And Derek White once said, you don't do business to get money. You get money to do business. And I understood that when he said it immediately.


And it's not just about OPM. You see, the first half of that, what he was saying, is you don't do business to get money. That goes back to the hustler.


They doing business to get money. They moving whatever the product to get money. Now you go to the other half.


You get money to do business. That's the trapper. That's trap'n.


See you getting money to fund your dream, your business, your goal, this product, this concept that you have. And it doesn't matter how you want to go about it. And his way of thinking of going about it is through banks.


Not everyone can do the whole bank thing. And that also goes back to the, you don't need money to make money or you can start it a business with little to no money or from scratch. You can if your credit is good, which you had to be in some way financially smart or educated and to actually just do things right and not mess up your credit or to have certain credit cards, limits and all that, and be able to walk in the bank and to do whatever.


Then there's the other thing and the flip side to that. You might have the good credit score or the credit cards, and etc, but you don't necessarily have the business plan that's needed or the income to guarantee that if we do give you this money, you're going to be straight. So it's a lot to it.


It's not as simple and easy as it sound, but it's also not impossible. It is doable. But that's the thing to that.


And then you have the thing of crowdfunding where, okay, you get people to fund your dreams and front your projects, which also is not just through things like GoFund or Kickstarter. You can also have investors, loans, and all that. But for people like me and us, we trap and we're trap'n and make things happen.


So in this case, right now, in order for me to raise capital, I got to sell a couple of things. I got to move a couple of things. I got to create things in order to sell.


And looking over what I have, it's like, why not? I can do this. and I'm going to spend the summer doing this. My platforms that I'm going to use are eBay, Etsy, and Shopify.


Now, with eBay, I have these bags that I need to get rid of. And it's like, why not and how not? Come on now?


I have enough of these to bring in a little something because slow money better than no money and something is better than nothing. So if I have this product and I need to move it, I got to figure out how, why, and to make sure that it happens. Now, I already had tested this product a couple of years ago, but eBay had shut me down because I couldn't provide them with the official information of my business.


Like the registration and name and all that. Because I was getting money. Like, it was it was getting in one of those things like, hey, hey, hey, hey, we see you.


We see We see what you're doing. Just just verify this for me real quick and then we can let you continue getting your money. And since I couldn't, they kept some of my last payments and didn't release it.


And at the time, I was like, it's not even worth for me even trying to register a business or whatever to just prove this and that. So what I did was I started another account later on and it didn't get as much traffic as the first one did. and I don't know why I have a couple of reasons or maybe why like maybe someone probably figured like, damn, like, all right, we trusted this other company. Maybe this one is a scam or a knockoff of them.


But the other one, you see, the other one had like five stars and all that. The ratings, reviews, and all that whatever was on point. And I tried to redo it and it didn't go as well as the other one.


So this time when I go back, I'm going to make a couple of changes and.. I might also do a few ads hand there. I'll let you know.


It's going to be a part of the process. We'll see. Then for Etsy, I have a couple of digital products that I can test and I can put out and I can see what happens.


I also need to sell my original artwork, which I'm not doing on Etsy. And the reason why I'm not doing it on Etsy is because for me, I feel Etsy devalues your worth as an artist. Like, you have to sell $#!* for damn there pennies and like very cheap in order to get it off in order to do something.


On top of that, it also cost for every post that you do on Etsy. So for every item that you want to sell on Etsy, it's going to cost. So that's going to be like a no for me, especially for my artwork.


Now, what I am going to say sell my artwork on though, is my actual website that I'm building and I'm creating, and I think I'm going to try out eBay as well, just to see, just just to see what happens. I'll have more information on all of that later, but that's where I'm at right now. Need to get up this money so I can fund my dream, my project, my business, and to make things happen.


And that's what this project is going to be about. This whole initial PYREX Project is going to have several projects under it of my process of creating and doing business and getting this money and being creative and giving people the insights on how to do this and do that from my experience and someone that's real and it's giving it to them in real time. So I'm not sure when you're listening to this, but all the recordings that you're hearing right now, they were public during the time of me building my empire and following my dreams.


So people had access to it, which is very rare. And the reason why I'm doing this and why I came up with the concept and the idea is because usually you don't hear about the struggle or the process that.. how millionaires, billionaires, and great entrepreneurs had went through until after the fact. And that's when you have their documentaries and their stories of what they did and how they did it.


But at that time, the thing about it is that it can be too late for several reasons because you're hearing their story in their time, 5, 10, 20 years later, 30 years, 50 years later, even so for, I'm not going to even lie a couple of centuries, decades. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, even if you did what they did step by step and followed their blueprint, time has changed, people has changed.


The cost of things have changed. And for a lot of businesses and products that's going on right now, when they first started, you have to think about it, like Kellogs, Nike, Domino's, KFC, Coca-Cola, Nabisco, Ford, Mercedes, Chevy. You have to think, GE, at the time that they were created, right?


They were either the first or the handful in their industry. Whereas of now, it's millions, thousands of different variations of a product of a business. So it's like, eh, what do we what do we do?


How you how can you have the same success as them? It's going to be very hard. And on top of that, it's the reason why they dominate their industry because they've been around before you were born.


And then you have the other ones that starting out or that's doing something that's like totally new in my generation where they took advantage of something like Amazon, Facebook, Tesla. You see, with Amazon, Amazon became the first retailer online retailer where you can buy and shop everything. But it didn't start off like that.


That's for something totally different. But Amazon grew into the online retailer that solved so much. You see what I'm saying?


They revolutionized one, how people shop two, how you get it. Three, the guarantee of it. And four just the whole great customer service.


Facebook solved the problem of people being able to interact with each other across the world, different states, different countries, but especially in America, they revolutionize and solved the problem of being able to connect to this person, that person, talk, see, whatever the case may be. Share, right, Tesla, solve the problem of electric cars, no gas. And it looked good.


It looked like the future of a car that can be a flying car, which at this given moment in my era, we're still waiting for. I hope you got it in yours, along with the flying houses like The Jetsons. I am still very disappointed in 2025.


I do not have a flying car or flying houses, levitating and all that. Very disappointing. My childhood is very sad right now.


I really thought by now I would have a flying car and flying houses and we would be good. I'm dead serious. That is so disappointing.


Anyway, so yes, Tesla's start solve that problem and the reason why they were able to dominate and be good. But you see in my era where they solve new problems and presented something new for the consumer, that's why they did good. Now, of course, after them, there were several new things to go and do, but it's like, ah, we did it.


That's why we the talk dog, and we run this. And at the moment, if you look on the Forbes List, the Forbes List is something where it presents the richest people in the world and America, especially. And the people that I just named to you are the top ten and top five.


The owner of Tesla, which is Elon Musk, at the time of this recording, he was worth $240 billion, I believe. And then you have Jeff Bezos. He owns Amazon.


He's worth around $190 billion. And then there's Mark Zuckerberg, who owns Facebook, which is worth about $180 billion. You see what I'm saying?


And they dominate where they're at, and they control that market. So for the businesses that's starting out, as you heard from my previous recording, that had the number of businesses in America, entrepreneurs and all that, it's going to be hard for you to try to compete these days and to really make such a difference in great numbers, but let social media tell it, everybody's getting money.. Everybody, business and product is booming.


Doing over $100, $200K, $500K in sales. I'm talking about it month. Like, really?


Okay. Well, here I am and I want to see how y'all doing it. How's it going about where's the real proof?


And that's why when my thing kick off, that'd be the reason why I provided real time proof and people can go back and witness and see and hear my proof of my success. I like that. PYREX Project, the proof of my success.


Hmm. Maybe that'll be the name of my documentary. Who knows?