Hello, I hope all is well. I am an 18 year old that is looking to start a business. I have dipped into the service providing area in July where I was supposed to make websites for people but I ended up doing a free trial creating videos for a possible client. I ended up stopping that. Wasn’t leading me to earning income.

My main question here is, what would you tell your 18 year old self to start? I truly like the idea of having an online business. I am in Computer Science at the moment for school and I was thinking of getting into saas. But I also see tons of different videos on different businesses to start. I just want to mention, I do not have shiny object syndrome. I am just interested in starting & getting advice from anyone.

Also, one thing I see often is, dropshipping, smma(which I tried to go in on), trading and Amazon fba. I see this everywhere. I don’t know if truly you can make a large sum of income from it or it’s just the courses that help them.

I started learning about business at 15 where I started a YouTube automation channel and later stopped that. Then got into cutting hair for others. And ever since I have turned 18 I have been learning a lot more on stocks, credit, as well as retirement plans. But truly retirement isn’t my end goal. I just like idea of working towards something.

So if anyone that is in the business areas I have mentioned I’d be open to hear your perspective from it and any perspective from others as well.

  • TO_GOF@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’d tell myself to do what I did, which is to say I stated a business in a field I enjoyed.

    Next I would tell myself that even though I hate college and do not want to be there, I should slow down and take to easy. Don’t try to get it over with quicker by taking more than a full load of courses each quarter as well as attending school in the summers. I would explain that you will burn yourself out by trying to go to school full time and work full time and that you will kill your entrepreneurial spirit.

    Finally I would tell myself that the key to a successful business is stubborn tenacity in the face of all adversity. No matter what happens never give up and as soon as you can, hire people to help, even if those people do menial clerical tasks so that you can focus on what is important. And for gosh sakes if you have family members who might be willing to help you a little, let them freaking help you.