If you started a business what would it be?

[sammyg2]

Combination couch testing and pizza and beer tasting consultant.
I'd be good at that. No really. I would.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

I can't imagine why anyone would ever want to open a restaurant. So many people say they would like to do it, but it's one of the riskiest businesses you can go into, is incredibly hard work and even if wildly successful, still incredibly hard work. If you open at 11 for lunch, you get there at 7 for prep. If you close at midnight, you leave after 2. Who needs that? Every restaurant I ever worked at had managers that stole, even when the managers were the son and daughter-in-law of the owner.

You can get rich feeding the poor or get poor feeding the rich.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by David 84 911

I am curious what types of businesses people would start or buy. Assuming funding and time was available. Thanks for your imput.

I started a repossession business. I've been doing it over 10 years. All i really have to show for it is a battery of herniated discs.

[red-beard]

Beer Brewery would be nice.

We're actually doing a business expansion right now. Sales are up by a factor of 5 from 2008 to 2009. The Business plan has us doubling next year, with smaller but steady increases after that. By 2013-2014, we should hit the wall with what we are doing. By that point, I want us large enough to start doing Engineered Packages. We'll use the contacts we've built up between now and then. Should be about $10-20M/yr by that point. Then the sky is the limit.

[on2wheels52]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

Gun and porn shop in the same bldg.

You mis-spelled pawn Rick.
Jim

[Burnin' oil]

Wilderness guide. But I wouldn't advertise or tell anyone what I do or where I am. It would just be me in the middle of nowhere.

[ODDJOB UNO]

Oddjob uno's beer bait bullets taco emporium

[serge944]

A hardcore gym. Dim lighting, heavy industrial music, bare concrete floors, unpadded benches, NO machines. There WILL be an interview process. No pussies.

I know this niche exists. It'll be called "Stalingrad."

If you copy my idea, I will hunt you down.

[David]

Coin operated car wash.

Storage units.

Machine shop. I'd probably start with a couple of CNC machines in a small business park and try to pick up oil and gas equipment sub-contractor work at first.

[strupgolf]

I'd like to open a Hobby Shop. The kind I knew as a kid. Models, trains, slot cars, dolls, etc. in a small midwestern town. Kids today need such a place to learn how to use their brain and hands. One kid at a time.

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by serge944

A hardcore gym. Dim lighting, heavy industrial music, bare concrete floors, unpadded benches, NO machines. There WILL be an interview process. No pussies.

I know this niche exists. It'll be called "Stalingrad."

If you copy my idea, I will hunt you down.

I love it. Can we also ban matching sweatsuits? Ban people from using treadmills for walking slower than they normally walk on a sidewalk? Oh yeah, you said no machines. How about a cell phone jammer in the place too? That would be paradise. While I love looking at MILF's, I can't stand seeing people use machines as resting places for their fat a$$es or water bottles and then talk on their cell phones while using a treadmill for walking only when it's perfect weather outside. I really do hate everyone, BTW.

[scottmandue]

Book store... doubt there is much money in it but that is what I would love to do.

Maybe combine high end audio/book store

[Shaun @ Tru6]

A few years from now, I may try to open Little Traveler retail stores. They'll be interactive aimed at boys, one idea is a hydraulic press inside a banker's glass enclosure and you get to choose what you put into the press: can of baked beans, football, your sister...

[BeyGon]

Shaun, I thought you might name your store "Fellow Travelers"

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by Shaun 84 Targa

A few years from now, I may try to open Little Traveler retail stores. They'll be interactive aimed at boys, one idea is a hydraulic press inside a banker's glass enclosure and you get to choose what you put into the press: can of baked beans, football, your sister...

You mean hawking T-shirts isn't your dream job?

[Granite]

My idea is to open a shop called the "Clip-a- torium" We will wear white smocks and look very sterile and doctorish. Trimming the ladies lower region in a variety of trendy trims. It will be hard work but I think.... I mean I know I could really get into my work. I will of course be franchising this out to the masses once I have had my fill of trim and dialed in the procedures.

Keep your eye out for one coming to a neighborhood near you.

Steve

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by Granite

My idea is to open a shop called the "Clip-a- torium" We will wear white smocks and look very sterile and doctorish. Trimming the ladies lower region in a variety of trendy trims. It will be hard work but I think.... I mean I know I could really get into my work. I will of course be franchising this out to the masses once I have had my fill of trim and dialed in the procedures.

Keep your eye out for one coming to a neighborhood near you.

Steve

The disgust and revulsion you'd experience with probably a majority of your customers would not be worth seeing the good ones.

[Granite]

Don't burst my bubble. I need to keep the dream alive. Snip, Snip!

[Jim Bremner]

Well.... Here in California we have legal MEDICAL marijuana.



Med Marijuana "pharmacy" with couches and video games + all kinds of junk food for sale!

I'll call it "mom's basement"

[nynor]

homebrewing supply. small but with good variety of ingredients and equipment.