If you've ever owned a business....What was it?

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Bar, Lawn Service ( had a partner), Car Wash (partner), and just recently purchased a distributor ship in the direct sales field I have been in for the last 3+ years.
 

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When I was in middle school, I had a joint venture with my buddy. We spent $10 each and bought a porno on VHS from the adult video store. Hooked our parents VCR's up after school and made 1 copy every day because that's how long we had until our parents got home and we had to put it back. Sold them to other kids at school for $20, so were making 100% profit on every one we sold. The gig ended after a couple weeks when his Dad came home early one day noticed the VCR was gone. That was a tough conversation for two 13 year old kids.

I still remember the name of it, but i can't post it here haha!
 

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Currently own 4 different businesses, real estate investments, construction co, Snow Plowing Biz, and a different company for some other type of construction I do. I am thinking about buying a parking lot paint sprayer and getting into that. Also thinking about stamped concrete
 

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Currently own 4 different businesses, real estate investments, construction co, Snow Plowing Biz, and a different company for some other type of construction I do. I am thinking about buying a parking lot paint sprayer and getting into that. Also thinking about stamped concrete


I think the guys that fix potholes and resurface the parking lots have a lock on re-striping, so you would need to do that too ( IMO).
 

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I think the guys that fix potholes and resurface the parking lots have a lock on re-striping, so you would need to do that too ( IMO).

Best friend owns a concrete company where I live. I hooked him up with 500k in business this year alone so he pretty much owes me haha. I also have a lot of snow plow accounts and am in tight with a big chain of stores in my area. I think I can keep a couple guys pretty busy, but I just have never done it before. Don't know if the money is worth the hassle for me or not.
 

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online cell phone reseller, wholesale biz, construction co & now real estate rehab
 

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When I was 12 years old me and a buddy took all of our shitty sports cards and put about 4 in a soft plastic sleeve protector. We made it a grabbag and the "good" cards were the middle ones....we sold each pull for $2....we mustve had 100s of grabbags to choose from and maybe only 1 or 2 had a decent $20 shaq rookie card
 
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I owned the Tastykake franchise in Vegas from 83-85....

The heat was too much to deal with....
 

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currently own my own accounting business

no real cost of sales, that's the kind of business to get into! hard to go under if you don't have any debt or big expenses...
 

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If you ask some of those posters here, you will find out i founded google in my spare time while serving as ceo of goldman sachs
 

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Bilingual call center...enough said about that.
 

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currently own my own accounting business

no real cost of sales, that's the kind of business to get into! hard to go under if you don't have any debt or big expenses...


are you a one man shop?

the firm I work for has lots of expenses.....rent, salaries (the biggest expense), and everything from phone systems to computer softwares to equipment, etc.
 

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are you a one man shop?

the firm I work for has lots of expenses.....rent, salaries (the biggest expense), and everything from phone systems to computer softwares to equipment, etc.

I visualize a guy listening to avril lavigne on his iPod taking your taxes to the library with a free turbo tax log-in.
 

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