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Business Growth & Analytics

Founder lessons, getting started, and the strategy behind growing a reselling business over time.

How to Build a Reselling Business in 2026: Systems & Operations

Stop running your resale business out of messy spreadsheets. Learn how to design a scalable sourcing, tracking, and management workflow for 2026.

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I Resold Model Trains and Electronics to Pay My Server Bills. Here's What Changed Everything.

At 16, Botifex cost $500–800/month to keep online. I funded it by reselling model trains and electronics—and every mistake became a product feature. Here's what bootstrapping through flips taught me.

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Rhev Williams on Building Botifex: What I'd Tell a 15-Year-Old Who Wants to Build a Software Company

Rhev Williams, founder and CEO of Botifex, shares lessons from building a six-figure software company from rural Idaho at age 16.

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Rhev Williams: The Teenage Founder Who Built a Six-Figure Software Company from Rural Idaho

Rhev Williams is the CEO and founder of Botifex, an AI-powered deal-discovery platform he built from a Raspberry Pi while still in high school. His story: web scraping, SuperBot, and a company valued in the six figures from small-town Idaho.

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