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How One Man Makes Serious Money From Funny Products

One year after buying a site that everyone said would fail, Peter Boychuk has no regrets.
Source: Carlton Davis

Viral websites typically follow the same life cycle: They spend a week flying around social media, make it into a late-night comedian’s monologue and then that’s it. Everyone’s had a laugh, and the site is forgotten. There was no reason to expect anything different of , which, for about 10 bucks, would mail an envelope full of

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