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Business idea?

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Bahir the Red, Aug 29, 2006.

  1. Morgoth

    Morgoth La lune ne garde aucune rancune Veteran

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    Well, I've seen websites that offer such services, so don't bother ;)
     
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    I think it can be done by professionals. But if you are programming as a hobby, it is very hard, unless you are very talented. But it depends on the situations that the messages are sent.
     
  3. Bahir the Red Gems: 18/31
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    How about this: would anyone of you ever concider buying an FM-transmitter, that could convert whatever you are playing with your MP3-player or iPod to radio waves, so that you can play it in a radio, perhaps in your car or something? Would cost around $20 to buy or somethin...
     
  4. Kitrax

    Kitrax Pantaloons are supposed to go where!?!?

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    Already been done. And I already have one. They don't work too well in a large suburban areas since you need a wide range of fee FM frequencies... :rolling:
     
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    Then it probably won't help that we would import the cheapest we could find from China :D
     
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    Since when can you tell the return of the investment for certain? If you could do that the stock market would not be called calculated risk. :p
     
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    You provide a full business plan with projecting financials for the next five years and the assumptions that you made in calculating those. Any good investor will realize what you're doing.

    And the stock market is only risky if you don't know what you're doing.
     
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    Which covers about 90% of the population, I daresay. ;)
     
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    Even the best of investors will do a bad investment sometime. A good example of this is the wave of computer ralated companies that sprung like mushrooms from the ground. A lot of people (including "know-how" investors) invested in them and after that thier value fell, like rocks in water.

    It is right that studing the market and it's trends will help you but it isn't always possible to pretend what happens on the international stock market.

    @Your last line

    It sure is risky even if you know what your doing. Otherwise big investmentfounds would never drop in value.
     
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    Hey, why don't you make other people feel bad about themselves and then try to sell them some makeup? It works well with the major cosmetics companies so why wouldn't it work on a smaller scale?
     
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    Dude, gay bars and clubs! Outside of the major cities, in the smallish cities of America, them gays are definitely an untapped resource.
     
  12. Carcaroth

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    Bespoke T-Shirt screen-printing business.
    We did it (many moons ago) at school (Young Enterprise scheme), reasonably cheap to set up and run, not too time consuming, lots of students will buy t-shirts, particularly if you come up with orriginal designs and can make them to their own specification.

    However, you need someone who is good at art.

    I think we had the highest turnover (for the scheme) in the county. "Tax" was paid back into the scheme. (though I cooked the books a little to pay the operators more)
     
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    ROFLMAO. Big investment funds can't even beat the S&P 500. Doesn't sound to me like they know what they're doing.
     
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    Correction: the stock market is ALWAYS risky.

    The difference between the 5% of investors who don't immediately lose their shirts and the 95% of investors who do, is that the 5% KNOW that the market is risky, and prepare accordingly.
     
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    I couldn't agree more thats why i stay off the stock exchange.
     
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