Starting A Business

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Is it hard?

[Institutional Control]

Totally pud.

[Emo EMAW]

What kind of business?  Like I imagine starting a farm would be pretty hard.  Starting a food truck probably easier.

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

After watching the movie "Blow", I always wanted to start a drug business

[Pete]

After watching the movie "Blow", I always wanted to start a drug business

Talk about supply chain head aches....

[michigancat]

Totally pud.

Yep. Something like 85% of new business are successful.

[ben ji]

Totally pud.

Yep. Something like 85% of new business are successful.

Restaurants/Bars have the greatest sucess rate.

Just put a nice sign up in aggieville and you will be printing money in 6months

[EllRobersonisInnocent]

A legit foodtruck could make a killing parking in the ville thursday-saturday night

[Pete]

Before you start a business, cash out your 401(k) and tap your loved ones for cash.

It's a can't miss deal.

[Cartierfor3]

Based on watching Shark Tank it sounds like a catchy name is key.  Tell me what the business is and lets come up with a catchy name, together, as a team.

[CNS]

You guys are holding out.

The very best way to raise immediate capital for starting a biz is a loan shark.

New biz's usually make back all of their cash outlay in the first 7-9 hrs of operation.  Why go through all the bank paper work for such a short period of time?  Loan shark, payback, profit. 

[Johnny Wichita]

A legit foodtruck could make a killing parking in the ville thursday-saturday night

I've always wondered what the ceiling is for a food truck.  There is one in town there that does very well, but to what extent I don't know. 

[Johnny Wichita]

After watching the movie "Blow", I always wanted to start a drug business

Bet those guys wish they had stayed in Manhattan Beach peddling weed for the rest of their lives. 

[Institutional Control]

After watching the movie "Blow", I always wanted to start a drug business

Bet those guys wish they had stayed in Manhattan Beach peddling weed for the rest of their lives.

No way would he have gotten to bang Penelope Cruz selling weed.

[Pete]

CNS's time frame for full capital pay back is a bit aggressive, better to be cautious and set all lenders' expectations to be that they have to wait a least a month.


Cartier is right, if you don't have a good name, you are mumped.  Look at Waste Management...the eff is that name?  No surprise they almost went bankrupt a couple years ago. 

If the business is in Manhattan, you will have a roughly 20% higher rate of success if your name includes "wildcat."  In Lawrence, you literally cannot fail if you include "jayhawk" in the name.  I know the guy who owns Jayhawk Drug and he basically has a store full of pill bottles and he is LOADED.

In KC, "smoke" or some derivative of that seems to be a real action generator,  though I don't have any hard numbers on KC.

Anything west of Manhattan should include either "sunflower" or "America " in the name.

Hope this helps.

[Cartierfor3]

Also Heartland.  Heartland is a word that makes everyone feel safe and want to give you money.

[bubbles4ksu]

i'm sitting in business associations right now. if you want to find some partners or incorporate, i can totally do that. give me like two weeks to figure everything out.

[Emo EMAW]

Also Heartland.  Heartland is a word that makes everyone feel safe and want to give you money.

What's your email?  Totally just got the urge to PayPal you $5.

[Pete]

Idea 1:

Wildcat Tacos and Videos:

You are good at videos, so keep that as a core competency.  Now, diversify.

How?  Tacos.

Everyone loves them, and they are easy to make.

You may want to include a message at the end of your advertisements that the tacos are not actually made of Wildcat meat.

[Pete]

Next idea, but for the Lawrence-Eudora-Desoto corridor...

Jayhawk Heartland Exterminators:

No secret that with these relatively warm winters that insect populations are on the rise.  Now CAPITALIZE!

Anyone can spray for bugs, but you will have a key differentiator;  broads with HUGE tits.  The Lawrence area has a higher per-capita strip club ratio than Las Vegas or Windsor.  You have a large supply of day time workers with huge tits.  Develop a training program with the proper OSHA controls and you will be a force in the market place.  Key point: Make sure you position your product to take advantage of the broads with huge tits, with those who already like huge tits.

One more value added service to add to your already stellar offering:  Red Box movie returns.  Not only will you provide expert pest control, your staff with huge tits will return people's movies to Red Box locations (they are everywhere).

[TheHamburglar]

Idea 1:

Wildcat Tacos and Videos:

You are good at videos, so keep that as a core competency.  Now, diversify.

How?  Tacos.

Everyone loves them, and they are easy to make.

You may want to include a message at the end of your advertisements that the tacos are not actually made of Wildcat meat.

Taco Mail

[Pete]

Idea 1:

Wildcat Tacos and Videos:

You are good at videos, so keep that as a core competency.  Now, diversify.

How?  Tacos.

Everyone loves them, and they are easy to make.

You may want to include a message at the end of your advertisements that the tacos are not actually made of Wildcat meat.

Taco Mail

Hmmmmm, go on, I'm listening...

[OK_Cat]

i like the broads with huge tits idea.  plenty of ways to "expand" ( ) your business.  they can wash cars or clean houses or whatever.

[Pete]

Also, I don't want to make it seem like the business HAS to be about tacos.

If we need to, we can start a separate thread for those of you who want to really focus on taco related business opportunities.

[TheHamburglar]

Idea 1:

Wildcat Tacos and Videos:

You are good at videos, so keep that as a core competency.  Now, diversify.

How?  Tacos.

Everyone loves them, and they are easy to make.

You may want to include a message at the end of your advertisements that the tacos are not actually made of Wildcat meat.

Taco Mail

Hmmmmm, go on, I'm listening...

It was a skit on The State.  I used to have a link to it, but it appears that in the last 3 months Viacom has gone around had it removed from everywhere.  The mailman was delivering tacos instead of the mail.

However, I just came up with this idea.  You set up a service like the old milk delivery men, only with tacos.