<p>I would really love to start a business of my own but I really don't know where to start. There have probably been threads about this but I need one of my own. How do you get the money? What would be some things I need to do to start, and would I need to set up my own website? If you have started a business and it's fairly successful, please list is here and what it's about.</p>
<p>Yeah I wanted to start a business too...but it's too hard as a high school student. >_<</p>
<p>I just can't think of anything that's my huge problem, and don't know where to start.</p>
<p>Hey, me too.</p>
<p>I did it, I dropped out of HS and started several different online ventures.</p>
<p>Heres what I did to earn my first 85k</p>
<ol>
<li>Drop out of Highschool</li>
<li>Get loans from family and friends (In excess of 5-6k)</li>
<li>Invested all the money into several hundred webpages (Hire someone to build you them)</li>
<li>Develop the webpages</li>
<li>Slap some ads on the webpages</li>
<li>Drive as much traffic as you can to the webpage</li>
</ol>
<p>Profit ....</p>
<p>Then.. Use the profit to start another business and continue making money.</p>
<p>It's as easy as 1 - 2 - 3 now adays to make a quick buck online. Forget about opening a RL business....</p>
<p>I MUST WARN YOU. If you are under 18 forget about everything I said. Almost every ad network will automatically reject you and you will end up with a network that pays you .001 a click instead of 2.00$ a click.</p>
<ul>
<li>If you live in the US you HAVE to pay taxes on the money ( I got screwed over on this one badly...)</li>
</ul>
<p>Why'd you drop out of high school? Was there not enough time for the business?</p>
<p>you can think of ideas now and then actually do it once you get out of high school.</p>
<p>errr... I didn't drop out of high school and I started a flourishing non-profit organization (a business that does philanthropy). Of course the word "flourishing" is used within the context of a 14-15 year old.. We have an operating budget of around $54,000 per fiscal year and around 35 employees (who act as volunteers). PM me for more information about it (website, contacts, advice, etc)</p>
<p>Just a word of a advice though. A business EATS your time, literally. Just organizing everything takes ~10-12 hours/week. That doesn't even include corporate/member and Board meetings, events, or fundraisers...</p>
<p>i fix computers...</p>
<p>i advertise in my town letter.</p>
<p>I charge 30$ an hour.</p>
<p>I make around 250$ a week.</p>
<p>Once i get my license, i will advertise in the local newspaper, and i expect that i can easily work 20 hr a week (which would be 600$).</p>
<p>Geek Squad is like 100$ an hour, and less personal. People are glad to give me (a 16 year old) 30 bux an hour, and when something in the future goes wrong they can always call me and either hire me again or ask for some phone support.</p>
<p>Its AWESOME.</p>
<p>The closest I ever came to a business was a lemonade stand at my elimentary school's yearly bazar. And it went very badly (partially because I was drinking the lemonade all day :) )</p>
<p>That's funny!</p>
<p>"i fix computers…</p>
<p>i advertise in my town letter.</p>
<p>I charge 30$ an hour.</p>
<p>I make around 250$ a week.</p>
<p>Once i get my license, i will advertise in the local newspaper, and i expect that i can easily work 20 hr a week (which would be 600$).</p>
<p>Geek Squad is like 100$ an hour, and less personal. People are glad to give me (a 16 year old) 30 bux an hour, and when something in the future goes wrong they can always call me and either hire me again or ask for some phone support.</p>
<p>Its AWESOME."</p>
<p>I could probably do that, but I would be worried about running into problems that I can’t figure out. And, what do you tell people when they need a replacement that can’t be done (for instance, say you need a socket 939 motherboard).</p>
<p>I mow lawns, landscape, snowblow. It’s really easy and I make a ton.</p>
<p>I was thinking of an iphone unlocking/jailbreaking service since there seems to be a lack of basic competence, in this regard, around my area.</p>
<p>start an online business costs $10 for a domain and maybe $200 to hire a programmer so the site will look nice.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this counts as a business, but I do internet marketing, where I buy a domain and hosting, develop a site, drive traffic, and make money when people like you guys fill out leads.</p>