How to invest 150k

My advice? Stick with what you know. You can easily net a million with this model; especially given your experience and startup capital. Explore other markets, use a similar blueprint, and consider how to sell more than 20 copies a day. Work hard at that and seek to make your business passive again.

Tom

It's tough to say, the motivation of late has been lacking but the overall passion for all things tech is what has allowed me to be successful thus far. I'm 24, traveling the world and working towards my savings goals and the computer screen has offered that life to me. I don't have a degree, I'm self taught and any time I've encountered a problem I analyze it and learn what I need to solve it. Thus far it's been everything from coding to marketing to design and everything in between.

One big bonus I have at my disposal is a huge email list of qualified buyers. So branching into other gaming ventures seems to be the most realistic as I can utilize that with my reputations within said communities as well.

I've done quite a bit of my own research on the prospect, I tend to stay away from investment firms as they are generally have their own interests in mind. I've always been analytical with a sense of pattern recognition, I've tried my hand at day trading and almost doubled up in just over a month. Granted, I think just as in poker translating that success from play money to real money may encounter more resistance.

My goal has always been to identify where the most profit is possible, learn as much as I can about it, and then make an informed investment. I also don't believe in going in blind, but I hate to limit myself to things I already know. I've gotten here so far by pushing the boundaries of my knowledge and learning what I know.
Yes, right now I have a tad bit over 150k sitting in bank untouched doing nothing much for me. I'll look into the new Tony Robin's book. As an avid techcrunch and recode reader, I am really interested in the Silicon Valley. I think if I were to get involved I would prefer moving there and pursuing a position within an early stage start-up more-so then providing capital. The boom and bust nature of it deters me from wanting to personally invest. For every success story there are 10 failures and I don't have the bank roll to support that.
I agree, online business has been where I am most successful and I definitely wouldn't swear it off. The problem with investing with real estate is I am very debt adverse and there isn't much I could buy with only $150k.
That's very interesting, I'm actually living in South East Asia right now. Currently in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam and there are definitely similar opportunities. Vietnam has a lot more "coffee money" required to be successful here. I've also considered a web design and coding startup which could offer reasonable rates by utilizing local vietnamese coders.
I've always thought about doing that, even if just for the benefits of sponsored travel. (Yes please!)
Day trading is definitely something that I am interested in.
Thank you for the valuable input, I definitely have taken note.

I like your thought process, thank you for a very valuable post.

I've purchased a high quality expiring domain for a more general gaming sales niche which I believe can be beneficial as while some games dry up there will always be something new. I've communicated with a chinese power seller and secured services for other games at a flat 20% profit and will be exploring that. I have an email list of every paying customer I've had over the last two years and established myself in the main gaming sales communities which I think will be very valuable to transitioning to a more generic sales. The issue comes with inconsistencies in most Chinese suppliers, but they are a necessary evil expand into a wider array of games.

I think I will also be trying my hand at a personal blog aimed at others in similar situations, looking to explore new ideas, travel more, and are seeking inspiration based my own failures or successes as they come along. I've been a little apprehensive about something so personal as I am generally a fairly private person.

I also like the idea of sourcing local coding talent from vietnam and working on something with a more disruptive potential.

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TryBPO, I am also in Saigon currently.

Fulfillment definitely is a bit out of my comfort zone after specializing in digital goods and services, however I'll definitely look into it.

Team up with me, let's start an SEO company in Vietnam!

I have all the knowledge in house, I have funds same like you so we can do all 50/50, you speak the language, you know who to hire and train them, I train you. In fact we don't need a lot of staff, 1 or 2 is enough to start with and salaries aren't high in Vietnam.

We start doing billboard advertisements with a bit of a trick.

In case it doesn't work out we don't loose much, just start with a small office, land line, billboard advertisements for 1 month and see what it brings, if nothing we both lose a few thousand and call it a day.

At another IM forum I read about a guy doing this in India, he's banking BIG time. I thought about doing it in Thailand but it's not easy to find reliable business partners here, let alone people with money that believe in the idea. Thailand also has some strange rules like hiring a minimum of 5 Thai employees and Thai owning the company for 51%, all things that I am not very happy with, especially when I have to take care of 100% of the costs.

Anyway hit me up if interested, I'm ready to roll.

BAM Right in the face but that's my style

I'd be interested in discussing this further, however I don't speak the language nor would I hire any vietnamese staff that don't speak english. You can hire university students for $200 a month.
I'm specifcally looking at ShawCor which has an amazing balance sheet, and while affected by the oil prices they deal with piping.
Haha, it makes a nice sounding board and brainstorming place at the very least.