What would you do with 10,000 dollars to jump start a business/idea?

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writing a paper for a communications class and the prompt is basically if you were given a grant of 10,000 dollars to jumpstart your own business or idea what would you do? why?
what are your thoughts ns?
 
I've always thought it would be cool to open a summer jib place, but 10k probably wouldnt be enough for start up, and it probably wouldnt make any money either
 
Start your own ski company/fuck around, i.e. materials, build a ski press, graphics etc. Or you could screw over Itunes, buy a shit load of songs/movies/tv shows, then charge people half the price and give them access to your library. apparently this is a grey area of the law though, not sure it would work.
 
since 10 grand is not that much money, i would probably use it as a down payment on a mortgage loan for a furniture store here in Montana. Im in the furniture business and we lost a very big furniture manufacturer in this state, so id probably open a second store in another city and become the "invisible hand" if that makes sense to anybody. hhaha
 
buy this bad boy,

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this. except with weed. and i would buy a 4000 dollar car to conduct business out of. and about a pound of chron, and an expensive ass scale big enough to weigh pounds on.
 
Yea, but I'm out driving to-from places, and I get thirsty. So I either have to buy some fast food with a drink or get out of my car and buy something. Man if there was a quick place to just drive through in a minute and get a bottled mountain dew and some chips... damn.
 
To start your own company I would have to go with some sort of shop. Maybe a bike or skate shop, even a surf shop if your near the ocean. I would host jams and comps at local skate parks to get the word out. I would have a team, maybe a flow team to get kids stoked on trying for something. I would ask what brands to sell, see what kids ride the most around your area. Buy it with a little amount of land and maybe build a mini ramp, a couple handrails, and maybe even some dirt jumps out back to always have people wanting to come shred. Maybe bike rentals and sell parts and have a repair shop for everyone around. I would personally look for a sick spot like near a bike trail or big skate park, but away from other shops.

Hope this helps?
 
An affordable adventure camp for my town. The only camps they offer right now are either super god damned expensive, or free and basically a babysitting fest. No edumacation. It'd be so awesome.
 
This may sound stupid but I know someone who does it and he banks ridiculously. I would do this If i didnt go to college or I was a com major (haha jk).

You put $5,000 down on a cherry picker (its a truck with a boom like the electric guys use). It most likely will be a beater. Next you do your work in a city where you drive by businesses and look for burn out light bulbs on there store front. Then you call the business and tell them you will change the bulb with a fee. They will most likely bc that bulb is a bitch to change because its high up. Now you do this starting in the northtowns of the city and slowly make your way to the south. By the time your done with this the bulbs in the northtown on other business burn out and its a cycle.

Reading this your going to be like that is fucking stupid because your a professional light bulb changer. But realistically its an easy business with low over head. The guy who did this retired at 50 and lives in Florida now.
 
start a green building consulting firm inside an already existing construction company. make sure to write your business plan and marketing plan.
 
10k can't afford shit for office space or even a vehicle to really work out of unless you could immediately turn around and have more money to work with.
pretend you at least have a vehicle to work with and a square lot to work on
for 10k you could get a car detailing place going. then you could go window tinting as well if you learned how to do that. work with dealerships in the area and setup a flat rate for them so you clean their vehicles and do all their extra tint work. from there you could try and expand as you gain capital to installing rack systems, hitches, whatever. A lot of shops around here do this shit...in the summer they also sell mopeds and those italian scooters. Im surprised in the winter they don't sell christmas trees in their parking space they do have.
I don't think its an easy time to start a business though, and I think every business already around that is "traditional" has the game on lock down, and knows where to get their supplies the cheapest, and have probably thought of most ways to pinch their pennies.

 
that's exactly what i did, except i didnt have enough money for a huge act so i didn't make that much. however 10K is more than enough and you can turn out some good cash with that
 
the first thing you do after you have the money would be to write a business plan and marketing plan then take your money and those two things with you to the bank and say i have a plan and some money. can i have some more?
 
This summer im thinking about staring up a pedicab company. either get one or two pediabs and ride around the popular downtown area of my town on thurs-sat nights giving people rides around. i think instead of charging 5 bucks a ride or wahtever to do it for "free" and say tips are encouraged. I think that way your open up your earning potential ten fold.
 
I would start a railgarden.

Find a small snowy slope, buy a ropetow, buy some jibs, build some nice features, possibly blow snow, charge fees for sessions.
 
go to china town, acquire opiates, drive to bumfuck nowhere, sell opiates marked up 300%, repeat
 
Where the fuck do you live? We have exactly what you're talking about in Indiana and Ohio. I can go through the drive through and pick up a case of beer if I want.
 
Definitely have to book acts that people really wanna see. My Dad did it a couple times, but unfortunately the area in which we did it was either...old fucks who listen to the Grateful Dead and that's it, or real live thugs who listen to shit so underground it hasn't even been recorded.
 
I would open up a small boardshop in downtown Hudson, Wisconsin...don't no how much snow gear i would be able to sell, but skateboards and bike parts for sure. I've always wanted to open a small skate shop
 
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