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0:00My first decent paycheck. I got it
0:03during my last year of high school,
0:06from 7:45 in the morning to 6 in the
0:08evening. Basically, if you have a job
0:11that takes up your whole day, you can
0:13still start a 3D printing business. And
0:16in this video, I’m going to show you
0:18step-by-step how it’s done. Mind you,
0:20I’ll be upfront: this isn't that
0:22passive income machine everyone tries
0:24to sell you for no reason. It’s a
0:26real business that requires real work
0:29behind it. And the only difference
0:31compared to any other business is that
0:32the machine works while you're at your
0:34job. But even then, you still have to
0:36put in the work hours yourself. I’ve
0:38been an entrepreneur since I was 16,
0:40seven years ago, and today I have a
0:42farm with over 35 3D printers running
0:4424/7. And at the end of the video,
0:46I’ll show you a piece of data that
0:48would have saved me years of work.
0:50I’ll also tell you how many printers
0:52you need to make a decent salary and
0:54we’ll look at when it’s worth
0:55quitting your current job and when
0:57it’s not. Right, the first thing is
1:03to understand why this particular
1:05business goes so well with a 9-to-5,
1:06how you can do both things at once
1:08without much trouble. Think of it this
1:11way: in any generic business, you
1:13always have to put in the time to
1:15create the product. For example, if you
1:17have a bakery or a cookie shop, the one
1:19baking the cookies or the cakes is you.
1:22If you’re a teacher, for example,
1:24giving private lessons or whatever,
1:26you’re the one teaching—it’s your
1:28time. Or if you have a clothing brand,
1:30which is very trendy now, usually when
1:31you’re starting out, you’re the one
1:33cutting the fabric, making the designs,
1:35and doing absolutely everything in the
1:36production process with your own time.
1:38Here, producing doesn't take up as much
1:40of your time. If everything is set up
1:43right and the machine is in optimal
1:44condition, you hit print and you’re
1:46off in 20 minutes. That lets you start
1:48a print early before heading to work,
1:50come back, and the part is supposedly
1:52already finished. Though I’ll warn
1:54you now, the truth is that machines
1:55fail from time to time, and they fail
1:57quite often, but we’ll look at that
1:58later. My point is that the production
2:01process doesn't depend on your free
2:02time, it depends on the 24 hours in a
2:04day with the machine running and that's
2:06it. Now, another thing that has to be
2:09clear is that even though the machine
2:10works by itself, the business does not
2:12run itself. Someone has to choose what
2:15to print, has to take the part out of
2:17the printer, has to reprint, has to
2:19package the products; we have to do
2:21things. But the nice thing about this
2:24venture is that everything we have to
2:25do can be adjusted to your schedule;
2:27you don't have to do it at a specific
2:29time. So, if it can adapt to your
2:31schedule, the question is no longer, "
2:33Hey, do I have time to start a 3D
2:35printing business?" but rather, "Hey,
2:38how much does it cost to set up a 3D
2:39printing business, what do I sell, how
2:41does it work?" and we'll see all that
2:43today. And that's where the first
2:45surprise comes in, because actually
2:46starting a 3D printing business is
2:48cheaper than people think. I started in
2:502019 with a Geeetech A10, a 3D printer
2:52that was a clone of an Ender 3, the
2:54printer that was trendy at the time,
2:56but which I don't recommend today just
2:58in case, and at that time it cost me
3:00about $ 230. Plus, I used it with a
3:03second-tier brand filament, the
3:04cheapest filament. I didn't go for the
3:06most expensive filament of all because
3:08it didn't make much sense to me. Today,
3:10obviously, 7 years have passed, the
3:12technology has advanced quite a bit,
3:13and you have much better machines for
3:15the same price, 200 and something.
3:17Dollars. For example, on Amazon or
3:19enxit.com, in the case of Argentina,
3:21link below in the description, you have
3:24the Flashforge Adventurer 5M as the
3:26cheapest 3D printer I can recommend
3:28today. And it costs that much and is
3:29much better than what my A10 was. I
3:31guarantee it. It's great to start now
3:32because they are easy, all things
3:33considered. But anyway, that would be
3:35the cheapest machine, but which one
3:37would I buy for a slightly more serious
3:39venture if you have more than a $ 200
3:40budget? In order of price, the cheapest
3:433D printer I would buy today would be
3:44the Bambu Lab A1 Mini, which is a super
3:46robust printer, very well priced, that
3:48allows you to print everything with
3:50excellent quality to start selling
3:52parts; but if you still have a little
3:54more margin, you have the Bambu A1
3:56Combo, which is like its big sister
3:57with a larger print area, and I
3:59wouldn't go beyond that as a first
4:01printer. In Argentina, there’s an
4:03interesting case: the Flashforge AD5M,
4:05which internationally competes with the
4:07Bambu Lab A1 on price, but for some
4:09reason I don’t know, it costs about $
4:11200 less in Argentina, making it, in my
4:12opinion, a better value-for-money
4:14option for multicolor printing than the
4:16A1 in the Argentine market. So, you can
4:18check that one out. You have a video
4:20right here about the Bambu Lab A1 Combo
4:22versus the AD5M. And now, please, the
4:24most important piece of advice in this
4:26whole first block of the video. Buy the
4:28machine in installments. I learned this
4:30over the years while managing my
4:32business finances, and I eventually
4:33concluded it was the best thing I could
4:35do. Now, why in installments? Why go
4:37into debt to buy a printer? It makes
4:40more sense than it seems. The logic is
4:42that you get it on a payment plan, and
4:44the printer pays for itself with what
4:46it prints and sells. I buy the printer
4:48with a credit card at the beginning of
4:49the month, right? Well, I have 30 days
4:51to sell parts before I even have to pay
4:53the first of nine installments. In
4:56other words, I have a month to gather $
4:58150 or $ 200 to pay a installment; the
5:00first few months might be a bit tricky,
5:02but the final months almost 100%pay for
5:04themselves. This allows you, for
5:07example, in my case—since I already
5:08have several machines—the last
5:09purchase I made wasn't for one printer,
5:11it was for five. I had the money to buy
5:12one and I said, "Whatever, they're
5:13going to sell anyway." And I bought
5:14five. Obviously, don't do that at the
5:16beginning. Don't buy five machines if
5:18you haven't sold a single part yet, but
5:19keep in mind that it's a strategy you
5:21can use with just one machine at first
5:23without any issues. Mind you, it's
5:25still important: I would have a safety
5:27cushion of at least 50%of the machine's
5:28value just so you aren't struggling to
5:30cover the installments and getting into
5:32debt for something you can't afford. It
5:34will give you a lot of peace of mind
5:35and allow you to make decisions with a
5:36clear head. But speaking from personal
5:39experience and what I actually did, I
5:40wouldn't wait to have 100%of the
5:41machine's value either, because again,
5:43if you get it in nine installments, you
5:44have 9 months. That's a lot of time.
5:47Think about it. Everyone is responsible
5:49for their own financial actions. I'm
5:50just telling you what I did and what
5:52worked for me, nothing more. Okay,
5:54ready; you now know more or less how to
5:56start, what you need, how much it costs
5:58, and how to manage the finances. Great
6:00. Now, what's next? What actually sells
6:03? Well, what to sell is a complicated
6:05question, and there's a trap here that
6:07everyone falls into. But first, notice
6:08that I didn't get much into the topic
6:10of filament brands in this video, but
6:12if you're interested and I see lots of
6:14likes and comments on the subject, I
6:15can make a video related to that about
6:17all the filament brands in Argentina.
6:19Literally test them all. It’s
6:21complicated to organize that video
6:22because I have to talk to all the
6:23brands, but if there's support, I'll do
6:25it, no problem at all. Right,
6:26continuing then, what to sell? Most
6:28people when starting out do exactly the
6:30same thing. They go on Google, see
6:32what's selling, copy it, list it a bit
6:34cheaper, and that's where the problems
6:36start because you end up competing on
6:39price against 100, 200, 300 people
6:40selling the same thing. That ends up
6:43with the person selling cheapest
6:44winning, and everyone ends up selling
6:46practically at the cost of the filament
6:47. Like what happened at the time with
6:49those mugs, quite a bit of noise, and
6:51they ended up selling them for six
6:52grand, which is nothing, it's $ 4, and
6:54the cost is two. In the end, if you do
6:56that, you end up working a ton for
6:58practically no profit. And especially
7:01in your case, since you have a job and
7:02don't have many hours to dedicate to
7:04this, your time not being profitable
7:06makes no sense. So avoid selling based
7:08on price, avoid being the cheapest,
7:10avoid selling what everyone else is
7:11selling. Now I'll tell you exactly what
7:13you have to do. The golden rule that
7:15changed my entire business and that I
7:17always keep in mind is that the person
7:19buying from you isn't buying plastic,
7:21they're buying the solution your
7:23plastic offers. Okay, you aren't
7:26selling a 3 D-printed part, you're
7:27selling a solution, and that pays a lot
7:29more than a cat with glasses that's out
7:31there on MercadoLibre with 200 listings
7:33. I have products that literally cost $
7:363 to make, and I sell them for $ 45.
7:40That's quite a margin. And the person
7:41paying me that isn't thinking, "Uh,
7:43let's see how this works, how he made
7:45it, how he manufactured it, how much it
7:46costs him to make." No, the person
7:48buying from me is saying, "Ugh, great,
7:50for $ 45 it solves my problem." And
7:53believe me, believe me that $ 45 for
7:55the product I offer is super cheap
7:56compared to what's on the market. And
7:58that is a bit of what you need to start
8:00evaluating. If you're interested, after
8:02watching this video, I have another one
8:04about how to price your 3D printing
8:05service, which I highly recommend you
8:07watch once you finish this one and take
8:09note of a few tricks. Now I know what
8:12you're thinking. Okay, I get it. I need
8:14to provide custom solutions, but I
8:16don't know how to design. I have to
8:18learn to design. I have to learn how to
8:20use Fusion 360, for example, or how to
8:22use Blender. Look, the truth is that
8:24nowadays, especially now that AI is
8:26advancing so much, it's not 100%
8:27necessary. Today you have millions of
8:30free models on Google that people
8:32aren't selling or commercially
8:33exploiting, and those rotate constantly
8:35. One day one thing sells, the next
8:37month something else does. You have to
8:38keep an eye on the trends. So I would
8:40say that if you're just starting out, I
8:42wouldn't focus so much on learning to
8:44design, especially in the first few
8:45months; I'd focus more on learning to
8:47sell, posting a ton of products,
8:48uploading content, and things like that
8:49. Later on, when you're taking it more
8:52seriously or see that you're enjoying
8:54it, then you can learn to design from
8:55scratch. But it's not something that's
8:57100%necessary, and especially not
8:59necessary in the first few months.
9:01Regardless, if you are interested in
9:03learning to 3D design and print
9:05completely from scratch like a pro, my
9:07community has full courses on Fusion,
9:08Bambu Lab, and Orca Slicer so you can
9:10learn to print and design from the
9:12ground up. Plus, you have a ton of
9:14designs like these cool ones I have
9:16here, like Bart Simpson, Gengar, and
9:18other designs you can sell. I'll leave
9:19it in the description. And we raffle
9:22off four 3D printers every month among
9:23all members internationally, which is
9:25not a minor detail. Let's continue.
9:28Since you have little time, my advice
9:30is also not to build a giant product
9:32catalog because it will take you a very
9:34long time. Choose two, three, or four
9:37products at most, publish them, and do
9:39it well, because each well-made product
9:42adds up in time: printing it to test it
9:44, checking different colors, publishing
9:46it, taking photos, and doing the
9:48marketing. It's not like having one
9:50product or having 100 is basically the
9:52same in this case. That's why, from my
9:55point of view, make two or three
9:56products that have high turnover, that
9:58sell well, and are also easy to make,
9:59so you aren't dealing with too much
10:00assembly, as that doesn't pay off as
10:02much, especially when you have limited
10:03time. And focus on that, two or three
10:06good products. Once those products are
10:08validated, selling automatically, and
10:10the listing is perfect so you don't
10:11have to do anything, keep adding
10:12products. In the long run, your store
10:15needs to have many products—about 20
10:16or 30 as a base—but for the first few
10:18months, three or four is fine, it
10:19doesn't matter. In fact, I recommend it
10:22. Added to that, where to sell. Since
10:24at first you have little time to build
10:26your website and a professional
10:28Instagram, what I would tell you is to
10:30list directly on Mercado Libre. I know
10:32it rips your head off with commissions,
10:34I know it makes you ship on a specific
10:35day, which might make you rush around,
10:37and in general, Mercado Libre is quite
10:38stressful compared to having your own
10:40website. But the reality is that for
10:42the first few months, basically 100%of
10:44your sales will come from there because
10:46you're just starting, you're not
10:47well-known, you don't have a polished
10:49Instagram, and you don't have a known
10:50website with well-done ads. So it
10:53doesn't make much sense to focus there
10:54when there isn't much of an audience;
10:56there’s more of an audience on
10:57Mercado Libre. So, in short, start with
10:59your catalog. Well-done, small, on
11:01Mercado Libre. Okay, so now we know
11:04what machine to buy, how to pay for it,
11:06paying in installments, and where and
11:08what to sell. Okay. How can I manage to
11:11work and be an entrepreneur at the same
11:12time, on the same day? What is a day
11:14like for an entrepreneur who also works
11:15? Well, for that, the only thing I can
11:18show you is my real-life example of how
11:21I managed my business while I was
11:23studying from 7:45 AM to 6:15 PM. I
11:26mean, it was more than a typical
11:27workday. And there you will find the
11:29answer to "I don't have time." Because
11:31time, believe me, you end up making it
11:33for yourself. Okay, first, the routine.
11:35As soon as you wake up, before going to
11:37work, you have to dedicate an hour to
11:39setting things to print. You start
11:40printing the day's tasks, you go to
11:42work, and when you return, you check
11:44that everything turned out more or less
11:46okay. With that, you're gaining about 7
11:48or 8 hours of daily printing time by
11:49doing practically nothing, just by
11:51getting up an hour earlier or
11:52dedicating time to it in the morning.
11:55When you get back, you check that
11:56everything came out well. And watch out
11:58, that product you see, the one you set
12:00to print in the morning, shouldn't be
12:01shipped today. That product shouldn't
12:04be shipped until tomorrow. In other
12:06words, you plan everything so, "Okay, I
12:08print on day one and I ship on day two.
12:09" I practically never print and ship on
12:12the same day. This is because every
12:14once in a while a 3D print will fail,
12:16because the machine ends up failing
12:17sooner or later, and you can't always
12:19depend on it never failing, because
12:20even though it happens less and less,
12:22it still happens. This is basically so
12:24you have some margin. In this business,
12:26you always have to have some kind of
12:28margin because, on top of that, when
12:30you're rushing, that's when everything
12:31goes wrong. So take my advice: you
12:33print in the morning on day 1, and on
12:35day 2, you print the rest. You ship
12:37that out in the afternoon. So,
12:39basically, I print in the morning, and
12:41late at night when I get back from work
12:42, I pack everything up and print again.
12:44And after that, what's left is to see
12:46at what time of day you can go to the
12:48post office, and that depends on your
12:50workday or the time you have. When I
12:52was a student, luckily, I had an hour
12:54in the middle to supposedly go eat.
12:56Right, what did I do? Since I lived 10
12:58minutes away by bike, I would grab my
13:00bike, fly home, grab all the products,
13:02put them in my backpack, go to the post
13:04office, ship everything, and run back
13:06to school. Only after that, if I had
13:08enough time, I would eat, and if not,
13:10well, I would eat later in the
13:11afternoon; it’s no big deal. But my
13:13point is that you see, that adapted to
13:15my schedule. I just happened to have a
13:17free hour I could use for the post
13:18office. Look, you have to figure out
13:21when you can say, "Hey, I'll go in the
13:22morning before work, or at noon because
13:23I have a break," or, like in my case, "
13:25I have to go in the afternoon," which
13:26is also fine, but you have to go.
13:28That's what you have to evaluate. When
13:30can I go to the post office? Actually,
13:31once you have everything published on
13:33Mercado Libre, it's easy. In the
13:34morning I start printing, in the
13:35afternoon whenever you can you go to
13:37the post office, and when you're home
13:38you start packing and reprinting.
13:40Obviously, if you don't have orders yet
13:42, if you don't have sales, you're not
13:43going to start reprinting or packing;
13:45you're going to start creating your
13:46Mercado Libre listings. You're going to
13:49print the product you want, take
13:50pictures of it, edit them, and upload
13:51them. But I insist, once the product is
13:54published and has daily sales, the
13:56routine is much easier. And that is
13:58basically how I made my first decent
14:00paycheck at 19 years old. I’m not
14:02telling you this to say, "Look how well
14:04I was doing at 19 and what a genius I
14:05am, go buy my course," but so you
14:07understand the mindset of: "Hey, I need
14:08to gain time, I need to see where I can
14:09get things done, and I have to do them
14:11anyway." At first, obviously, it’s
14:14never going to be easy doing two things
14:15at the same time, but the point is to
14:17gradually build something so that in
14:18the end, you have your own business
14:20that you can manage 100%. Now, watch
14:22out, because this is also very
14:23important. When your hours are so
14:26limited because you basically have to
14:28work two jobs at the same time, you
14:29can't waste time on things that aren't
14:31useful. And that happened to me a lot
14:34in my own venture. I spent hours doing
14:35things, and then I’d look at the bank
14:37account and the numbers just didn't add
14:38up. And what I’m about to tell you
14:40now, I learned quite late and it would
14:42have saved me a lot of time, so listen
14:44until the end. It’s called the Pareto
14:46Principle, or the 80/20 rule. The first
14:48time I heard this was in the book "The
14:504-Hour Workweek," which is a great book
14:52; I highly recommend it. Basically,
14:55this rule is somewhat universal, it
14:57applies to everything, and it says that
14:5980%of your results come from only 20%of
15:01your actions. In the case of your
15:04business, to put it simply, 80%of your
15:06revenue comes from only 20%of the
15:08things you do. So you end up spending
15:1180%of your time on things that aren't
15:13as profitable as they seem. Let me give
15:15you real examples from my life so you
15:17don't fall into the same trap. I
15:18remember at one point I was spending
15:20two hours a day—which was a lot in my
15:21four-hour shift—putting rings on
15:23keychains; I sold keychains and I had
15:25to attach the rings. It was right when
15:27the "Wednesday" series was super
15:29popular and had just come out, and
15:30there was a "Thing" keychain that was
15:32amazing. I sold a ton of them and had
15:34them listed in kits of 100, 50, and 30
15:36units. They were bought a lot for
15:37birthday party favors, and well, yeah.
15:39Every time a sale came in, it was great
15:40, spectacular, I’d make a lot of
15:41money, but then I had to attach those
15:43rings. What was the solution in the end
15:45? I ended up paying a friend to attach
15:47the rings, I reclaimed two hours of my
15:48day, and with those two hours, I
15:50focused on selling more, which ended up
15:51being profitable. Look, maybe you're
15:54going through the same thing today,
15:55though not necessarily with rings; it
15:57could be you’re spending 2 hours
15:58packing boxes, or maybe you’re
15:59cutting paper, applying stickers,
16:00whatever it is. That's when you have to
16:03think, "Hey, is this activity I’ve
16:04been doing for 2 hours actually that
16:06profitable for me?" The answer is
16:07probably no. Another thing that
16:09happened to me often, I’d spend days,
16:11and I mean real days, designing things
16:13that ended up being this tiny, and the
16:15client only asked for one. So, sure,
16:17maybe it was a week of design, but for
16:19a piece like this. Here’s a more
16:20visual example for you. Designing this
16:22little car, you have to design it. You
16:24have to spend some time, I don’t know
16:25if days, but a whole afternoon for sure
16:27. And if they ask for one, how much can
16:29I sell this for? The solution, when
16:31it’s a custom order, I set a minimum
16:33amount of filament. If it doesn't meet
16:35that, I don't sell it. Here’s another
16:36example of the same situation brought
16:37down to earth. How many times has it
16:39happened to you if you sell 3D prints,
16:40or if you don't sell them yet, it will
16:42happen to you? A client comes and says,
16:44"I need two keychains with my company
16:46logo." Two. I used to take those
16:49because I had the mindset that, well, I
16:50have to take everything because it
16:52helped me polish my design skills a bit
16:54, but there came a point where I said,
16:55"That’s it, I’m never doing a
16:57two-unit keychain order ever again."
16:59Yes, I’ll make the keychains, but 20
17:01units minimum. And many will tell you,
17:03"No thanks, I don’t need that many,
17:05see you later." And many will tell you,
17:07"Well, okay, 20 is fine, I’ll just
17:08give them away, I don’t know, make
17:09them, it’s not a huge expense for
17:10that person." Another very typical one,
17:13I spent a lot of time making Instagram
17:15stories that looked very nice. I’d
17:17launch a new product, for example, and
17:19spend 2 hours making a beautiful photo
17:21for Instagram, and of course, the photo
17:22got 10 views because no one followed me
17:24, and one like that was probably from
17:26my mom. If I had invested those 2 hours
17:28in listing a new product on
17:29MercadoLibre, I probably would have
17:31ended up making more in the long run,
17:33although I insist that Instagram is
17:34important, but it’s more of a
17:36long-term play, not short-term. Well,
17:38that was the 80%that was absolutely
17:40useless, but what was the 20%? Yes,
17:42like I was telling you, posting like
17:44crazy on MercadoLibre and creating
17:46social media content will eventually
17:48bring you a large number of clients and
17:49things that generally last over time.
17:51That is what you have to look at. Hey,
17:53this post, well, I'll publish it. How
17:55long does it stay published? And
17:56whatever you want, if you want, it
17:58doesn't matter, hey, I'll post it on my
17:59Instagram story. How long does it stay
18:01published? 24 hours. Okay, maybe the
18:03story gets you a bunch of clients.
18:04These are strategies, I'm not
18:05forbidding anything, but if you are
18:07just starting out and don't have many
18:08people watching your story, it pays off
18:10more to post on MercadoLibre. That's
18:11what I'm getting at. Everything you do,
18:12do it wisely. It's as simple as that.
18:14And look at what is taking up a lot of
18:16your time and not giving you results in
18:18terms of numbers. Simply that. Right.
18:20And now, let's move on to the last
18:21thing I promised you. How many printers
18:23do I need to earn something like a
18:25salary, and how do I manage the
18:27business finances a bit? Also, at what
18:29point is it better to keep working for
18:30someone else? At what point is it
18:32better to quit because the business is
18:33doing well? Let's look at it all. With
18:36your first 3D printer, you'll learn a
18:38lot, you'll love it, it will be very
18:39fun, but the reality is that you
18:41basically won't see money in your bank
18:42account; mostly because, even though
18:44the machine will pay for itself, you
18:46will most likely end up reinvesting
18:47everything you earn into the business
18:49itself, which is fine, it's what you
18:51have to do. Everything that comes in
18:53will end up going toward more variety
18:55of filament colors, because buying 1 kg
18:57is not the same as buying six. Some
18:59spare parts, some tools that might come
19:00in handy, for example, a heat gun or
19:02something like that that just comes to
19:03mind, which are things that are good to
19:05have in the long run, that make your
19:06life a little easier, but aren't that
19:08important at the beginning. In this
19:11first year, most likely what will
19:12support you, unless you do things
19:14extremely well, will be your salary,
19:15and whatever you earn from 3D printing
19:17will probably go toward making the
19:18business continue to grow, and that's
19:20it, which is perfectly fine. In the
19:22first year, regardless of what you earn
19:24, it will basically be that. Right,
19:26it's only with the third or fourth
19:27printer that the business starts to get
19:29serious. You can start taking a little
19:31bit from the business for yourself, for
19:33personal use, it’s totally fine. But
19:35at this stage, it’s not just about,
19:36well, instead of buying one printer, I
19:38had more money to invest, so I bought
19:39four machines and that’s it. No,
19:41that’s not how it works. You still
19:42have to get through the first year and
19:43you have to go through all the filters
19:45I’ve been mentioning. Have a
19:46well-made catalog, the 80/20 rule, know
19:48which products give you results and
19:49which ones don’t. Maybe even have an
19:51employee helping you with the rings,
19:53doing the packaging, or whatever it is.
19:55Basically, besides having three or four
19:56printers, you have a business structure
19:58already in place. There, well, now you
20:00can play around with the numbers, take
20:02a portion, reinvest the rest, I’ll
20:04allow it then. But again, what measures
20:06this isn't the number of printers
20:07themselves. I present it as a benchmark
20:09for someone who started with one and
20:10began to scale up. It’s the structure
20:12behind all that. And now, with five or
20:13six printers, that was when I
20:15personally stopped studying, dedicated
20:17myself 100%to 3D printing, and my
20:18salary came from that, and it was a
20:20more than decent salary, honestly.
20:22That’s it, only then is it the right
20:24time to evaluate. I would say it’s
20:26approximately at the 2.5 or 3-year mark
20:29. If in that time you did things
20:31reasonably well—not excellent, mind
20:32you, but reasonably well—then you
20:34will be more than ready to evaluate
20:36whether it’s worth quitting your job
20:37and dedicating yourself 100%to 3D
20:39printing. Maybe it’s not even
20:41necessary; perhaps you automated
20:42everything, do both things your whole
20:44life, and you like it. That’s valid.
20:45Also, for me, the beauty of
20:46entrepreneurship is that everyone sort
20:48of has control of their life however
20:49they like. So you’re free to do
20:50whatever you want. And before wrapping
20:52this up, I have to say it and clarify
20:54it, because otherwise, this video
20:55remains incomplete. This is not even
20:58close to an easy path. Again, it’s
21:00not a machine that you just plug in and
21:02boom, it makes money. You have to work,
21:03and you have to work for real. It took
21:05me years, taking it seriously. I
21:07consider that I did things relatively
21:09well from the start, and even so, it
21:11was a huge struggle. So don’t let
21:12anyone come and sell you the story that
21:14, hey, this is super easy, just go for
21:16it. But another thing I have to tell
21:18you is that if it really goes wrong,
21:19it's no big deal, so go for it. Let's
21:21imagine a catastrophic scenario.
21:22Everything goes terribly, you don't
21:24sell anything, you hate the printer,
21:25you want to throw it out the window.
21:27Okay. In that case, what is the worst
21:28that can happen? First, you took away a
21:30spectacular lesson. Did you discover
21:32yourself as an entrepreneur? That is
21:34important. Did you discover what you do
21:35in stressful situations? What you don't
21:37? How much discipline do you really
21:39have? Whether you like having customers
21:40on your back or not, if you like being
21:42your own boss. I mean, you did a year's
21:44worth of work in a month, literally.
21:45And the worst that can happen is that.
21:47Well, I didn't like it, I'll sell the
21:48machine, I'll keep the lesson, and
21:50that's it, problem solved. I tried it,
21:52it wasn't for me, no big deal. But this
21:53video is also a guide that I think
21:55turned out quite well, you'll tell me
21:56in the comments, it's for you to get
21:58encouraged, to give it a go, and to see
22:00that the worst case isn't as bad as it
22:01seems. So, if you're interested in
22:03starting a 3D business completely from
22:05scratch, I have a very nice video
22:06covering my face for you to watch after
22:07this one.

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