I wasm’t just talking about your time, @noemi, i was talking about all of our schedules, the whole Edgeryders community.
If you’ve put 35 hours+ into this funding application ( and from what i’ve seen, it needs at least 1 person doing this full-time to have any chance of succeeding), then we should take around 12 hours as 1%.
What about we all co-ordinate our efforts so that we can get the most effective results?
There are probably similar success rates for other funding applications. I don’t know where you’d find the data, but we could use those figures as benchmarks for scheduling our time.
The work that @Nadia has been creating on revenue streams, would be another method to achieve financial independence.
The work that @matthias has been doing with the OpenVillage Solutions, PayCoupons, and the work he’s personally been doing to convert his truck into a living space, is another approach to reducing our financial footprint.
The thing that i’m trying to do with making and manufacturing is another approach towards reducing our costs-of-living, which in turn will free up our time to work on the things we really enjoy.