Are there any people that run their own business or startup here?

Are there any people that run their own business or startup here?

Entrepreneurship seems pretty Sup Forums

>Working for someone else in 2016

The kind of people who would be able to find a partner who was willing to move into the wilderness with them like that and support themselves with their internet businesses are also the kind of people who crave too much attention to be able to live away from a big liberal cities like San Fransisco

San Fransisco is terrible. All of the degeneracy of Sweden with none of the benefits.

What benefits?

off yourself

Im an entrepreneur, I've tried finding others on here but have failed at every turn.

Im in Import/Export of plastics and rubbers. A few large weed farms, and now entering the cloud computing space.

Ill fucking kill myself before i ever take orders from anyone as a wage slave ever again.

I'm a self employed artist. The pay isn't the best but it's worth it because I don't have to answer to some asshole (most of the time)

I want to be an entrepreneur but I'm probably too lazy and dumb.

How did you get your starting capital? Did you just save up money or what?

Freelance fixer.

I fix things that need to be fixed. Very lucrative job.

starting my own business would make me a target for organized crime specifically racketeering ;_;

I worked in sales and saved up about 30k from bonuses. Went to MBA school because I couldn't handle being a wage slave anymore, while there me and a few other students decided to enter into the w33dl0rd industry. Took out 25k in loans, started up the first venture. From there just keep going and going.

I started my own business at 20 and now at 28 have a net worth of over 4 million. Any faggot not doing this doesn't even deserve to live

Yeah see I'm too lazy and dumb to do any of that

good for you though, nice to have diversity (kek) in your revenue streams

Hello.

I am on my way. After finishing my degree I evaluated my possibilities, and I decided I don't want to start a professional career on a company.

It's risky, but given the circunstances, I have nothing to lose. I refuse to be a slave for the rest of my life.

I started doing some audio electronic products and musical instruments, and hopefully the next year I will register my first patent.

If you feel possitive about it, you have an education, and you have the economic resources (I got them from my family, after begging like a bitch) go for it.

The problem for me is solitude. I really wish I had someone to work with, to share ideas and knowledge...

damn, i started at 29, i wish i fucking started at 20. I bet you are smashing all kinds of young ass. Like last week I discovered that I could smash 18 and 21 year olds still @ 33. So, ya know, I'm smashing 18 and 21 year olds now.

The cops have tried to enrich my businesses from time to time, but i talked my way out of it somehow, lol

You can do it, it just takes desperation and your back being against the wall

>Did you just save up money or what?

Historically, you borrow it. Or you start a company that borrows it; that way you don't get cleaned out if the venture goes bankrupt.

tried it there.

company stalled and ultimately got jewed by another company.

That's cool as hell. I'm guessing it was an outdoor grow considering the startup cost?

Like you fix things or you "fix things"?

>The cops have tried to enrich my businesses from time to time

What do you mean by this?

So many new entrepreneurs hit me up for starting capital and I'm like no fuck you use your own money to do your first failures like everyone else

Indoor, required 200k

Seriously kid.. what benefits? The only thing nice about Sweden at this point is the nature.

I did the entrepreneur thing. I but we were boot strapped and the company we were competing against were funded by jewgle.

long story short we got jew'd and dissolved.

Well weed industry used to get raided and maybe still does. I had a swat team up my ass for a 20k sqft grow

That fucking blows, i bet they were jews as well

How did you handle security? I've been thinking about moving to NM and getting in on the weed thing

you are very late to this industry. get into cloud computing, thats the next hot thing

You're retarded. Please off yourself. Sweden is the greatest country on earth. We literally have universal income and still have a thriving economy

I'm a self-employed electrician

I worked for a company that did government contracts to get the bux to get the house, property and shit, and now I work the easy life out in the country.

Total comfy

your country is shit and has been enriched

fuck it dude im too math dumb to work with computers

How does one entrepreneur?

It's not shit. Your country is shit.

like actual data centers?

You all say "nevur answer to another boss again Im not waeg slav", but having your own business is a shit ton of work that takes up tons of time. You still have to work at all hours and now your boss is the consumer. Sure, you can just not go to work one day, but that could spell severe losses.


Not to mention keeping a company up and running for more than five years is hard as fuck. Most fail pretty fast. You all act like its really easy.

I am a distributor of a range of cosmetic products I invented and sell in the USA. It has been profitable since January, which is great because I spent seven years trying and failing to start profitable businesses before that. I saved up 10k startup capital from doing CPA marketing with those Dr. Oz advertorials that Americans always fall for.

But it is much harder to start a successful business without connections than people let on. If you don't luck out, you are very likely to spend years in poverty working long hours. So I think you have to be quite humble and patient to make it work if you don't have access to VC or daddy's friends. Humble in the sense you don't be one of those "my time is inherently valuable" little bitches.

dude i don't know anything about cloud computing. Im a sales guy/weedl0rd i don't know anything about it.

Go find someone who does, convince him to do his own consulting firm, be minority partner, and do everything business wise he cannot.

Im going to make a fucking 100mm off this industry at least over the next 5 years

OUR countries are shit and you can go to little mogadishu and see what your country has turned into (its shit)

Fuck this, it's probably easier for me to get published as a writer

specifically migrating datacenters to the cloud (AWS, Microsoft, etc)

can you grow my foreskin back?

...

like sitting down to pee, bitch swede

>The only thing nice about Sweden at this point is the nature.

I heard from a guy that worked in Sweden that you have great forests and he said that Swedes don't go to those forests at all.
He was going there for mushroom.

nah i net 15k/wk and I'm fucking on perma vacation , business is only like that if you don't know how to hire employees and delegate duties

Explain to me what exactly you are doing? Explain to me how you "get into" cloud computing?? What I should do that instead of other IT shit or what?

do whatever it takes to get money

you're a lying little bitch that's managed to tell us absolutely nothing in 15 posts

off yourself my man

Left my last job at age 25 back in 2000, been working for myself with 2 online retail stores ever since then.

But, now that online retail is sucking ass because "I WANT FREE SHIPPING ON EVERYTHING LIKE AMAZON DOES AND I WANT 25% OFF MY ORDER TOO!" idiocy from every faggot who thinks the world owes them shit for less than I pay for it myself, so I'm making alternate plans for the coming years with a hopeful sale/exit from my current operations in 2017.

i literally told all of you how. Learn the skills to start your own cloud computing consulting firm or have a high level friend who wants to break away and start their own firm.

Cant argue with indoctrination..

>cloud computing consulting firm
What is that in the first place? What are you consulting care to explain? I've been doing web hosting internet services for fucking years setting up all that shit for people have my AA in IST. I still have no idea how you'd start that sort of thing.

Even had my own business doing IT shit repairing peoples computers networking, web reselling all that garbage. Would it be beneficial to get a business license?

To run a successful star up you need someone who knows business, and has connections, and someone who understands the technology.

These partnerships typically form between people who graduated from places like Harvard and MIT.

California is absolutely swamped with business and cs, bio, etc. majors who went to the top schools in the world. It's practically GG before you start.

No, but one of my products is made from foreskins, so thank you for your contribution.

Also, to anybody thinking of being an entrepreneur: Don't even think about a professional services "business". Service businesses are essentially freelancers who are essentially employees with no job security or benefits. B2C is the only way because the public is retarded and can be manipulated as needed. While a B2B will have you squeezed and forced to itemize your expenses to prove you're not profiting too much. The only time this isn't true is if you have a skill that is so valuable and hard to learn, people will suck your dick for your services.

Let me guess. You've been here for 2 weeks. You identify as a libertarian national socialist and you know absolutely nothing about capitalism.

Sweden is the only country on earth who has managed to negate all the byproducts of capitalism. We're the only country that can be considered a utopia. The only problem we have is corruption and too many foreigners who refuse to fall in line with our tightly knit tribe's interconnectedness and self-regulated behavior.

>B2C
Business to Consumer?

Basically set up clouds and move information from servers to the cloud? Where might one aquire this sort of knowledge? I've got 2 kids and my weed crops still have a another month or so.

Is that what cuck sheds look like in Holland?

yeah i went to business school on the east coast, moved to san francisco, worked at a startup that IPO'd and now want to move innawoods doing internet stuff and investing.

absolutely fucking BTFO

What type of business?

Hoping to get into medical marijuana once it's legal in my state. I have a few ideas for products that I have yet to seen been made. Right now in college for cheap insurance cause Obama care would have me paying 300 a month instead of my 200 a year Rn.

>To run a successful star up you need someone who knows business, and has connections, and someone who understands the technology.

Wasn't that way in 2000, and it was awesome.

>Left being database admin to start business
>Gave friend who did web design a skateboard in exchange for functional e-commerce site
>Learned enough HTML to maintain it myself
>Took a thousand chances, most paid off
>Didn't know shit about what I was doing, outlasted all my competition except one who recently downsized greatly and now operates out of their home after shutting down their warehouse

The dawning of e-commerce era was great, but now, it's just a fucky mess.

Tattoo shop

Its still very very easy to do but you need to fine a niche. You also need money to start up I would love to start selling imported mechanical keyboards and shit like that would make loads of money.

I'm an inventor who has some pending patents I'm trying to license out, idk if that counts. To make ends meet I do some consulting work and personal training on the side.

Patent your ideas now if you're serious.

I'm in school now but I plan on working for the man until I get some money from the lucrative tech industry with my CS degree. People on here complain about being jewed but I figure if you can't beat them, join them. Just need to partner with one who has connections and business acumen—the key is not getting bamboozed/betrayed by them. But better to keep your eye on one person (your business partner) than the whole globalist empire

I'm starting an enactus chapter at my college next year

Hoping to use dat college money to create a business for myself to manage once I finish my program

Are you thinking of selling tiny houses OP?

Definitely have to have a niche that's NOT going to be squashed by the current (and future) war of attrition between Amazon and Wal-Mart. That's key to having something that will work in the future, because no longer can someone just set up an online soap store and think they're ever going to succeed with it as they could have 15 years ago.

WHat are some good products ?

I build aluminum bass fishing boats. Been doing well the past few years but really was tough the first two.

Hey user, 30 yr. old neet here as of 6 months ago
>swore I'd never live off the silicon jew again

I spent the last 3 months researching how to cultivate the dank jew and I gardened as a teenager. I'm considering moving to a legal (or soon to be legal) state to grow, or work in a grow house, or start a dispensary.

Can you give me any advice?
>inb4 cloud computing

Can you talk more about Walmart Amazon war of attrition?

Got a loan for 20 decent 3d printers. Lease them to small companies for 1k a month. Make a fucking killing. Hire a bunch of hipsters to service and install. Shitpost on Sup Forums all day.

please have cancer.

I run a tattoo shop. It's sick because I get free tattoos.

Hell if I know now, I deal in general retail staple goods, which was highly lucrative for the niche I cater to at one point, now everyone just wants cheapest/fastest on everything and I've lost a chunk of business to the retail giants I can't compete with.

Precisely why I'm looking at investing in property and/or buying a bar next year. Fewer people will qualify for mortgages in the future, so renting will always be a necessity, and a cash business like a bar/Laundromat is pretty tempting as well.

Whoah

Cool! I'm a sound engineer that has plans for a sound studio in the near future. What kind of products do you sell?

You make that sound really simple user
Can it all be so simple user?

>Can you talk more about Walmart Amazon war of attrition?

Was turned onto this by a friend in the supplement manufacturing industry about 2.5 years ago (they sold their company for $550 million CASH last year, talk about my being jealous...) Basically, Amazon and Wal-Mart have just going head-to-head to outdo each other fully knowing they're putting thousands of small retailers (online and brick-and-mortar) out of business at the same time, which offsets their losses in how much they undercut all the time. They're both attempting to kill each other as the main goal (not that either one will go away), but ANYONE whose goods overlap gets caught in the crossfire and gets hurt the worst now that they've re-set the expectations from consumers for what they now "feel" they should pay.

Both of them pay a fraction for shipping costs that the rest of us in retail do, which allows them to use money normally earmarked for marketing to use to subsidize shipping down to $0 many times without taking much of a loss to margins. I pay almost 3x the cost to ship the same 1 lb. box circa 2000, and yet, people think shipping is "cheap" because a billion-dollar retailer can offer it to them. Consumers also don't know about the massive discounts these giants get on everything they purchase, as many times, manufacturers cut themselves down to bare-minimum profits just to get their foot in the door at Wal-Mart, and I would be paying 20-40% more for that same item, which is why they can sell it for less than I buy for on some items and STILL make money.

Retail is a complicated mess that most people think is some simple level-playing field scenario when it couldn't be more the opposite. If you have a shitload of money, you can do well, but a small mom-and-pop business is going to get fucked hard in the new era of retail expectations unless they can really stand out and offer something that nobody can get from the big guys.

Up your game with a high end laser scanner and scan/ print pattern parts for product development groups. Hire a CAD guy to smooth out the rough scan data, charge 5-6k for the whole job that takes about 12 hours.

freelance web design, programmer, anything IT related etc

ask me anything

run my own business

low overhead, pooled savings into investment funds

will be retired by 35 due to smart decision making and not being a dumb fuck with my money

any woman that comes a long will literally just be gravy, i wont let her work plus i work from home so i can watch her in the kitchen not fuckign the negro yard worker

i have a bunch of recipes to teach her as i am a good cook,

i literally just need a worthy womb at this point

They aren't that complicated. Some of them are made with printed parts so replacement parts, not including motors and belts, you can make yourself. The printers are easy to run and take about an hour to learn the program and load the filament. Getting the money can be difficult but the demand is good for the service. It's only going to get more and more demand as more pattern makers move from physical to digital. And the physical pattern shops are all wanting scans of their patterns. It's an industry that's growing fast as Fuck and not a lot of people are doing it.

who are your major clients

i have worksapce and could maybe get 20 printers up and running if i wanted to,

tell me more secrets about the 3d printing industry oh wise one, i will spill my beans in return

tattoos are degenerate though

That house's foundation cost more than a full size house, or it will fall of the hill in a slight rain

Are you a performance artist?
Can you make my deep dark fantasies come true?

oy dont be jewing us here shlomo

tel us how its done, i have access to credit and space just not clients, who you renting to?

tell us your business model for web designing pls

Gentle reminder that Charles Bukowski did the shittiest of shitty jobs. You know that one guy that got fired the first day on the job? That was Bukowski for most of his life.

His success came from writing, which just goes to show that if you're good at something, you'll get paid for it eventually.

I have 50k invested in ETFs doing nothing

How much money does it take to start a business? I want to be self employed but have no idea on what to do and I only have pleb tier skills

how do you learn about what to invest in?

Canadian bond index ETF
20%
Preferred share index ETF
20%
Canadian equity index (large cap) ETF
15%
US equity index (large cap) ETF
20%
International equity index (large cap) ETF
20%
REIT index (Canadian) ETF
5%

It's easy to get into. Most of the public believe that web design is some mystic art that is super expensive. Most professional firms charge insane money for very little work so it's easy to undercut.

I believe my first Ad was on the local Gumtree (you can substitute this for backpage or whatever is relevant in your area.)

Website for £20.

Unbeleivably cheap but from my experience in learning IT it's all about googling and solving problems and you need to get a client first to tell you what they want.

Just say YES you can do everything they ask and then google your life away learning everything you need afterwards. The most important thing is just to get the first client.

Web design has literally no overheads so you type away and sell your work.

Epic lessons and anecdotes below

>> You don't have the luxury to quit. If a client wants you to do something and you find you cannot you gotta be googling, on stack overflow, go everywhere ( even Sup Forums can be useful sometimes).

Work for minimum wage or less to begin with in order to get experience. The more jobs you do the more you will learn.

You interested in anything more specific?