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.

  • founderscurve@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    for what you describe -

    1. at 18, just a good job, one that pays and allows you to learn about business in situ. and, importantly gives you time for …
    2. start an affiliate site, google affiliate marketing, start a niche blog, work on it a little everyday, it’ll take a long time, but in the right niche, its great for (survival) passive income
    3. start freelancing (use fiverr or other freelance sites) - start with projects that are well within your expertise, try and find ones that are very similar so you can reuse code, grow this business.

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    3 is actually the real business, 2 gives you backup income, 1 allows you to develop pays you and gives you options.

    pretty much what i did, but at a later stage in my career, its still what i do… just different % of time on each of the 3