Grenade Pod seeds

Grenade Pod has nothing to do with military grenades. The term “grenade pod” is used to describe a fruit of Sacoglottis amazonica, plant that grows in southeast of America and along the beaches of Caribbean.

These fruits are known to travel large distances. They come from trees native to Amazon River and are known to get carried by the Gulf Stream as far as coast of Northern Europe.

OK, so is this site about botanics and trees and stuff? No. So why is this name?..

Let me explain by example. Let’s look at a tree. It grows, but the time comes to reproduce, so the type is preserved. That’s how nature works. So now the tree has some tough choices to make. Should it drop the seed just right next to itself? If so, then few generations later, the land it grows on will be over saturated and so the minerals, water, etc may become scarce and potentially the whole population of trees might just simply die.

Another choice is to send the seeds as far as possible and hope they’ll find better place to live. If the tree is on an island that is the only (wise) choice it can make. There is some degree of risk involved though, the seeds may never reach their destination. So fist option is safer, but has little potential to expand and grow the population, whereas the later is a lot riskier, yet it may yield much better results.

Same applies to business, especially online business. One can spend ages analysing different markets, developing and improving existing products in an attempt to make something better that sells. Or just concentrating on a particular niche. If it works out, the gain could be significant, and there are numerous examples of this.

Opposite would be to try many different things and see what works and what doesn’t. Don’t think too much, if there is an idea, give it a go, and if there’s no immediate gain, drop it. If you see that it can develop into something good – give it more energy. And that is the approach of the Grenade Pod (both the tree and this site). Throw the seeds as far as possible and see what happens.

In last few years I’ve been trying to get money of the internet. And I can’t say it’s been easy. There is no magic bullet that would work miracles. Do not trust all these “Watch me making 38k/week online working from home 2 hrs/day”. There’s no such thing. There are successful online business, but I have a suspicion that the ratio between those that make it above zero an those that flop is 1:20 if not greater.

I’ve setup quite few web projects in an attempt to build a self sustaining money flow. But the approach that I took is rather expensive – domain names are costly. Especially if there are lots of projects that last a month or two… So Grenade Pod is going to be some sort of central place for all my experiments. There will be no more independent websites, all will go under Grenade Pod umbrella. Main website is just going to be a blog for all my random ramblings.

There are no particular things I’m interested in, I’m keen to try new things every time. My main occupation is IT related, but there’s music, cars, traveling, gambling involved as well.

So in short, there’s going to be lots of projects, so watch this space.

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