Where to get started

mallardcove · 2017-06-23T15:56:28+00:00

This belongs in AskTRP
So you have no degree, no job, barely enough cashflow to stay afloat, how the fuck do you expect to become an entrepreneur?

MoronicBobbin · 2017-06-23T18:53:07+00:00

Learn to code. Internet has probably made more millionaires who started out with nothing in the last 20 years than all other industries combined, and its still the wild west.

E-commerce is good if you can source something only you have access to. Otherwise get ready to get your ass handed you on a plate like all the ebay middlemen who are getting BTFO.

JB-Enterprises · 2017-06-23T17:28:33+00:00

Get a job that allows you some financial freedom so you can make mistakes and not go into debt.

GET A JOB THAT ALLOWS YOU SOME FINANCIAL FREEDOM, not a job that lets you even out at zero while you support your mother.

If you're an aspiring entrepreneur, read the information provided at YCombinator or StartupSchool, whose most major tenets are the following; idea, product, team, execution. Find your idea, build an MVP, give it to people, collect their feedback, build another (better) MVP, rinse and repeat until you win. That's called the LEAN cycle, a business version of the scientific method.

Bonus: find a co-founder if you don't want to suffer the weight of the world and the crippling loneliness that is inherent in business from the get-go. But you will suffer both eventually, provided you have the grit to actually iterate.

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/

Bonus: Don't look for funding without a proven business that is making money or showing extremely rapid growth, you won't get it and you will waste your time. Look for funding when you're making money and/or have a positive month over month growth percentage. VCs are not the easy way out, they are some of the most talented individuals when it comes to sniffing out bullshit - it's their livelihood and their legacy - they will not hand you $150,000 to fuck around with. They make an exchange with you in order to further your company's growth, not start it - and they want a return.

Bonus: Angel investors too - either you have them or you don't, either way, Uncle Harold is not going to impart his offshore money into your pet idea unless you show him that you are growing, making money, or you have a massively original idea that he falls in love with.

Bonus: Don't spend more that two days validating your business model, two weeks building an MVP or two months per iteration cycle. Anything above that is generally far, far, far too long and you will die when it comes time to take advantage of a 'wave'.

"It's lonely at the top" - statistically, no one ever even gets there. Statistics don't matter, so just focus on iterating your thing.

Toolman890 · 2017-06-23T22:09:15+00:00

1) You're an aspiring entrepenuer? You're a delusional and impatient kid and your 'advisor' is an idiot. Most men who become entrepeneurs do so in their forties after having money saved. Why on earth would you take a 2 year break from college? I know why you're doing it, to feed your delusion and ego that you'll randomly come up with something in those 2 years that will make serious money.

Obviously the logical thing to do would be to finish your degree asap, get a good job so your mum only has to work the one, and then start saving up and gradually put money into investments and try some ideas. Now thanks to this your mum has to work 3 jobs for an additional 2 years so you can masturbate over some dream that you can't even express in any tangible sense because you really do not have an idea.

mushroom_overlord · 2017-06-23T21:34:02+00:00

Find a job asap, doesn't matter if it's min wage or six figures just get something, preferably as many hours as your mom. It's not RP to have your mommy take care of you. On your off hours work on lifting, educating yourself in business, and improving your employment status.

Tuxedoyoda · 2017-06-23T22:55:36+00:00

Huge mistake to quit school. Huge. Go back to school.

Title	Where to get started
Author	JB-Enterprises
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Date	June 23, 2017 3:55 PM UTC (9 years ago)
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