R600 000 in one day, sounds like a scam to me

I recently received an email from Dr Hannes Dreyer, in this email he claims to have helped a student to build 2 businesses and within the first 24 hours of operation (not counting all the setup work done) the student made more than R600 000. I was, and still am, sceptical. But what the mail, and my subsequent research have done, was to make me think about the process of building a business and the capital used to do it. Is the traditional knowledge really true, do you need massive amounts of risk to really make money.

During the first part of this challenge I have already found that you do not need to have money to make money, in fact, starting out with nothing I have already made more than R130. Yet it has taken a long time, but mostly because I had to spend small amounts of time on my projects. Also this amount is only my part of the challenge money, for as you know Tanya and I have been sharing our profits. So yes you might say that R130 is not a lot of money, but you would agree that making R260 from R130 is possible. You would probably not have believed that one could make R130 from nothing, without one cent invested, and only selling goods, not services or time. So no you definitely do not need money to make money.

Maybe the conventional wisdom that suggests that Dr Dreyer and his student should not be able to show that kind of returns without running a scam, may be mistaken. I will continue investigating. Do not get me wrong, I will not encourage you to invest in businesses that promise you millions up front. You have to do your research, and do it thoroughly. What I am saying is that maybe we should push our businesses for bigger returns, and expect more from ourselves than anybody else ever would.