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I agree, travel. Travel travel travel while you have the opportunity and aren't tied down by job, family, etc. Especially in places like South America or Asia(Thailand for example) you can live very well for $20k a year.

It's funny, I'm basically in the same position you are- 1 year of school left,business student, and I have enough money saved up from my Internet marketing business(and some good revenues still coming in) that I don't feel any need or pressure to go look for a corporate job. I'm going to school in the boring Midwest, and seriously contemplating moving to Silicon Valley or traveling through Asia after finishing school.

By the way, about your business, getting traffic is the eays part, it's getting them to convert that is the issue. If you can consistently be earning $100 CPM from your visitors, you should have no problem getting that traffic with some precisely targeted advertising campaigns (or maybe even SEO). It's trivial to get a couple thousand uniques a day for almost any niche with a bit of SEO/PPC work, provided you're monetizing them well, so with any luck, you won't need to use that 100K at all- you could live quite well off revenues from your startup as you travel the world.

graduating, send me an email to ilya[-at-]unviral.com I'd love to chat about this further.




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