Hark! the FUTURE!
Ok, you know how sometimes, an idea hits you smack in the head and is nearly fully formed and all you have to do to make it a reality is to just do it?
That's not what happened here. I've had an idea for quite some time now - a business idea. A buisiness plan, you might say. I figured out that I am never going to be happy working for someone else, no matter who that is, and the career path I am on right now is the wrong one. Some very smart people have asked me before, "What is it that you know best? What do you enjoy?" The answers have nothing to do with fixing computers. I'm good at it, but not great, and i do not particularly enjoy it. When I give them my answers, my replies are things I could never wrap a business-mind around: comic books, gaming, dressing up in costumes, creeping people the fuck out. These are hobbies, at best, I told myself, social disorders at worst. Nothing I could focus on to make money with.
I woke up the other day, and realized I was so very wrong. I just had to look at it from a different mindset. Some years ago, before my mom passed away, she had playfully tried to help me develop the idea I had, but I was too bogged down in "Wal-Mart Hell" to really see a bigger picture, but she was definitely on to something.
So - I have a business plan. Something I want to do, and I think it's a good idea. What I need to now is learn how to start and RUN a business, how to get investment captitol, learn accounting and shit like that. I need to learn HOW to be a businessman, and then apply my my idea to it. I have no idea where to start. Doing general Google-fu on "How to start a business" yeields a battlefield of links, and I'm reading them, but there is a LOT of information to sift through.
Therefore, I send out some very general inquiries to my readers (I'm pretty there's more than three of you)> Do any of have any advice to dole out to me, and experience with this sort of thing that you wish someone had told you when you were starting out - that sort of thing? I woke up today determined to no longer ignore this idea because it's good and I believe I can make it work. Now I need to learn how to breathe life into it.
That's not what happened here. I've had an idea for quite some time now - a business idea. A buisiness plan, you might say. I figured out that I am never going to be happy working for someone else, no matter who that is, and the career path I am on right now is the wrong one. Some very smart people have asked me before, "What is it that you know best? What do you enjoy?" The answers have nothing to do with fixing computers. I'm good at it, but not great, and i do not particularly enjoy it. When I give them my answers, my replies are things I could never wrap a business-mind around: comic books, gaming, dressing up in costumes, creeping people the fuck out. These are hobbies, at best, I told myself, social disorders at worst. Nothing I could focus on to make money with.
I woke up the other day, and realized I was so very wrong. I just had to look at it from a different mindset. Some years ago, before my mom passed away, she had playfully tried to help me develop the idea I had, but I was too bogged down in "Wal-Mart Hell" to really see a bigger picture, but she was definitely on to something.
So - I have a business plan. Something I want to do, and I think it's a good idea. What I need to now is learn how to start and RUN a business, how to get investment captitol, learn accounting and shit like that. I need to learn HOW to be a businessman, and then apply my my idea to it. I have no idea where to start. Doing general Google-fu on "How to start a business" yeields a battlefield of links, and I'm reading them, but there is a LOT of information to sift through.
Therefore, I send out some very general inquiries to my readers (I'm pretty there's more than three of you)> Do any of have any advice to dole out to me, and experience with this sort of thing that you wish someone had told you when you were starting out - that sort of thing? I woke up today determined to no longer ignore this idea because it's good and I believe I can make it work. Now I need to learn how to breathe life into it.