Tell me your business ideas

>>1580623
>Is it fair to say all of us on here are faggots that are looking for a get rich quick scheme or trying to start a business so we can work for ourselves?
Not really.
I'm retired, living off passive income.

>>1580632
What did you do for a living?

>>1580623
Ideas I'm considering executing myself
>Become a 'self help guru' - sell ebooks and eventually get into doing paid speaking gigs. Maybe I could become a "life coach"?
>Become a 'content marketing' consultant and specializing in youth oriented branding and video content in particular. With an eye towards fashion or premium urban lifestyle brands. The question is should I target businesses directly, or instead offer myself as a contractor to creative agencies and advertising agencies?
>Make inflammatory anti-establishment media commentary on Youtube and eventually sell merch
>Become a film producer - buy properties with great market potential (i.e. when 50 shades of grey came out, buy all the second and third best mummy porn book rights) for bargain prices. I'd really need my finger on the pulse to do this.

Ideas I don't have the skills/will to execute but there's money in:
>Data scrape publicly available data, collate it in a easily accessible way, make a front end so simple an idiot can use it and then sell it on to small businesses
>Impresario or Creative Agency - basically I'd use multiple-clients as leverage to book gigs. Eventually branch out into selling their music or artwork to brands.
>Business Ideas and Name Agency - exactly what it says on the tin - for like 200 bucks I'll do an audit of you as a person and present you with a business strategy report that you can easily execute. I'll tell you your target customer. Tell you how best to leverage your personality, connections, resources, geographical position etc.
>Invent some new form of New-Age panacea that I don't need a certificate to practice.
>Run a Jean-Pierre Van Rossem-type scam

>>1580654
Got fired from a lot of jobs.
So, not related.

>>1580749
All sound very hard and complicated. Have you started any idea or business before?

>>1580793
Nope. But I'm not afraid of failure, like I said: only considering.
I know my skill set, I know my life goals... I just need to write the narrative 'between.

>>1580632
where does your passive income come from?

websites, rent, franchises, bank interest, dividends?

>>1582089
Mostly equities and funds, some dividends.
Any of it resulting from rent or interest would be more or less indirect.

>>1580623
It's not that my ventures have been unsuccesful, it's more that my affinity for drugs far outweighs any sentiment of fiscal responsibility.

>>1582094
and how much in assets do you have? (total value)
I have $200k (Aud) in property at the moment but am going to sell it soon

>>1582101
Close to $5 mil USD.

>>1582110
fucking hell, inherited?
whats the minimum amount I would need to live on passive income

my current assets (aud)
>a house worth 900k -1m
>property in city worth 200k (after mortgage)

>>1582115
>inherited?
Lol, no, it was a little more complicated than that.
I'd guess how much you'd need depends mostly on how much you'd want yearly. Maybe estimate a 5 or 6% return and go from there. Under that scenario, half a mil gets you $25-$30K. Double it for a mil, and so on. Can't help with the property aspect as I don't rent it out.

>>1582120
ahh damn, you're lucky man
how old are you anyway?
im 21

>>1582124
>im 21
I wish. 38.
You're doing well for 21. I didn't have near what you do at that age.

>>1582133
well don't worry, I envy your position
how did you get to where you are now?

diligent saving?

because I'm good at saving, I just find being a wageslave completely boring.

>>1582133
I talked my way into some business deals with people more knowledgeable than myself. After the first couple I had a decent enough amount of capital that I could take a larger position. The rest was investment. Not pissing it away wasn't too difficult as I didn't grow up with a lot.
I found regular jobs boring too. Which is probably why I got fired from as many as I did.
You seem like you're on the right track.

>>1582139
I didn't / don't want to go to uni though
parents think I'm crazy,

I havent gone because Im confident that I could learn pretty much everything I need online for free / through a paid online course (much cheaper + shorter)

have I fucked myself?

>>1582146
>have I fucked myself?
That's a tough one.
On the pro side, I don't doubt you could learn much of what they would teach you class-wise on your own. And the actual piece of paper I got from school wasn't instrumental in any of my deals.
But on the con side, what you learn in class is only part of what you learn in total. Not just from a connections point of view, but in terms of interaction with professors, other students, etc. I have no way of knowing how much these things contributed to my abilities later on. I may have been knowledgeable about the right things, or was able to be familiar with and/or say things the people I did business with wanted to hear.

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>>1580623

I'm 31, get $1,300 a month in Social Security since I'm 'Disabled', collect $250 in food-stamps, get 100% free healthcare via Medicaid/Medicare, go to school and get Pell Grant/Scholarships/Subsided Loans, tutor fucking retarded fresh out of high school kids in Calculus, sell my Adderall (allegedly) and sell PDFs of textbooks.

I don't even have to file for taxes since the IRS just sees the Disability and it's not taxable; in reality, I make quite a bit but it's all in cash and kept in a safe in my condo.

I'm a career student and once the loans max out; I fill out a single form, attach a letter from Social Security and all of my loans are erased.

Demand fuels innovation, comrade.

My generation got fucked by the Baby Boomers so I decided to just mooch off the system while getting a lifetime of free education and college pussy.

I'm working on my second Bachelors and then going for an MBA.

Work smarter, not harder.

>>1582197
Aaaand your business idea is? Or are you just bragging about being a leech to an anonymous board?

>>1582197
enjoy going to federal fuck me in the ass prison for fraud.

>>1582209

I consider myself an entrepreneur since my 'firm' is not just sustainable but quite profitable at times.

I'd like to start a tutoring service but there's too many people with bachelors/masters in math and the only job they can get is tutoring in math.

I'm saving my money to use as seed money for once I decide on the type of business I'd like to own/run/operate.

The state and city I live in is a fucking desert and dusty as fuck but full of rich assholes; I've considered investing in some top of the line carpet/tile cleaning equipment and doing that.

Since I'm not relying on it as my livelihood, I could easily undercut the competition; plus I'd take pride in my work and always do an A+ job.

I'll never be a millionaire but I think I'd be quite happy.

>>1582215

Fraud?

Everything that involves getting money from the government is 100% legit and I have the paperwork to confirm it; I recently had my disability case reviewed and approved for another 8 years.

Guys, it's FREE money; are you telling me you would just ignore it out of 'pride'?

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24 HOUR PIZZA AND DONUTS.

we sell fresh pizza and donuts 24 hours a day

>>1582217
>I'd like to start a tutoring service but there's too many people with bachelors/masters in math and the only job they can get is tutoring in math.

Just throwing a random idea out there - why don't you invent a new "tutoring method" kind of like how many schools brand themselves as 'Montessori'? Just a marketing ploy but you could do some research into learning techniques and actually try to be a better tutor.

> I've considered investing in some top of the line carpet/tile cleaning equipment and doing that.
You'll probably always be in work doing that.

>>1582224

Yeah, the tutoring idea won't go away even though I see the market is saturated where I live.

The only way I would consider going forward with it is if I made it a three 'Tiered' tutoring service.

Tier 1 would be a few hours of general tutoring.

Tier 2 would be more hours but also homework help and prepping for tests.

Tier 3 would include the previous services but I would actually enroll in the class with the client and guarantee they would pass the class or their money back; the reason for enrolling in their class is mostly for the placebo effect and also because I would know exactly how the teacher teaches/tests and can prepare the client 100%.

There would be a legal contract that would be involved that would state skipping tutoring sessions, not doing homework and/or missing a certain number of classes would be in breach and they would forfeit their fees and I would drop the class.

I even have two pretty appealing names for my tutoring service/firm.

As for the carpet/tile cleaning idea, I would always have customers in the nice/rich/upscale neighborhoods and you'd be surprised how much they tip and sometimes give you their old 'shitty' last years electronics/appliances.

Think I should go the solo owner/operator route or maybe take on a partner to be the squeaky clean front-man and also finance getting the equipment?

>>1582197
>sell PDFs of textbooks
Wouldn't the person you sold it to, sell it again to his friends in the same class?

>tutor fucking retarded fresh out of high school kids in Calculus
I can do this, any tips on how to get started? Should I target the rich foreign students and charge a premium? I can say that I'm so busy that I may have to stop tutoring, unless Chang pays up.

>>1582230

No, I put it on super, super cheap thumb drives can can't have files copied or moved off it.

You have to figure out your own way pimp yourself out since you know your strengths and weaknesses ie. looks, socially, cunning, etc.

I started by creating a slick looking website with our colleges logo on it, my 4.0 GPA in every single math class I've ever taken, made up some fake testimonials (with pictures and burner e-mails) and some shit about how I take pride in what I do and I want to help you reach your potential, etc.

Then I start leaving/pinning my business cards with the website address on it every on campus; bathrooms, cork-boards, handing them to people who looked stressed the fuck out in the math building.

I also gave a few people a free 15 minute session to show them I knew what I was doing.

First one is free, right?

Word of mouth got me customers but around midterms is when students started getting scared and my e-mail BLEW THE FUCK UP with idiots who didn't study enough and were terrified of failing the class.

Gotta be clever, mang.

Getting money off the government for school is great lol

>>1582241
>jack up the price after the class drop deadline and after the first test
>pay me or get stuck with a terrible grade on your transcript

perfect

>>1582266

Strong arming isn't good for business, comrade.

Sure you get a few extra bucks but word travels fast that you're a scumbag.

>>1582218
People here don't like you being smug about having disability. Apparently you're supposed to be depressed to be certified depressed ethically

>>1582283
to be certified disabled

>>1582283

I wasn't trying to be smug; I just explained how I'm operating my 'firm' in hopes of using the money and business degree/knowledge to own and operator my own tile/carpet cleaning service.

I was diagnosed when I was younger but grew out of it but they keep sending checks so I keep cashing them.

All roads lead to Rome, right?

Well not all roads are exactly alike.

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I'm an electrician and want to buy some generators, thousands of feet of SO cord, some light stands and spider-boxes and start a temporary lighting and power business. I figure I could provide temporary power and light to events, night construction sites, and emergency situations with power outages.

>>1582222
Where?

>>1580623

a pokemon clone with sexi monstergirls that utilizes bitcoin in order to provide real-life incentive to play well and competitively. there will be two modules, the single player module where you run around, train and capture rare monstergirls, and the multiplayer module where you can duel other players (but not run around in the landscape, multiplayer module will be only dueling). when players log into the multiplayer module, they can select between 'casual', 'competitive' and 'hardcore'. casual is for normies, comp puts some bitcoin at stake per fight, but is still fairly forgiving, and hardcore is for the serious player with very heavy penalties for losing and high rewards for winning.

hardcore mode would require players to put forward atleast 5$ per battle, winner takes all. also monstergirls can die permanently if their health is reduced significantly below 0 with a single blow.

combine all of this with:
- cute art for the girls, and good game design for the skills/abilities
- easy to get into but with high underlying complexity in mechanics
- an auction house where people can trade and sell rare items and monstergirls
- no levelling thus skilled is acquired through genuine knowledge, experience, and decision making. not grinding.

i'll be rich boyos. just gotta learn how to ... well... everything