Entrepreneurship: Starting your own business

[SummerChild]

If you could start your own business, what kind of business would you start?

Would you use it to supplement your current work salary or would you quit your job and do it full time?

Does anyone have his/her own business? What kind of business is it? Did you do an extensive business plan or just make it happen? What is your website?

[jubilance1922]

I'm in the process of starting my own business right now. Its going to be an online costume jewelry store.

[EssenceofElle55]

I have my own business. It is a private practice for speech therapy. We treat children and adults of all ages and types of communication disorders.

I opened the clinic last year and I did do and extensive business plan with lots of market research. You know what they say "failing to plan, is planning to fail".

I also have a staffing company that staffs therapists and contracts them out to schools, hospitals, and rehab facilities all over Southern California.

Here are the websites

http://www.highdesertspeech.com
http://www.therapysolutions.vpweb.com

[tld221]

i've always wanted a business of my own. i definitely want to own a restaurant one day. and when i was younger, i wanted to own a nightclub for teens so they wouldn't be on the street all hours of the night...

but there's too much liabilities there. anyway, i'd love to be self-employed, but i just need to figure out what...

[RedefinedDiva]

Soror SummerChild,

You started a thread on homeownership. Now the entreprenuer thread. Hmmm....Have you been reading Black Enterprise lately? LOL!! I LOVE the spirit of homeownership and savvy business sense. I just need to get beyond the walls of school so that I can REALLY get things jumping in my life.

Anyway, a Soror/schoolmate of mine and I are trying to start up a t-shirt company. Being in school, some days folks just want to throw on a tee and jeans and roll out, ESPECIALLY when it's time to study. We have a few designs and all of the kinks haven't been worked out yet, but it should be up and running by the summer/fall.

As an independent project (if I can call it that), I do plan to start my own practice one day. Even if I don't go full steam ahead with a solo practice, I may just dabble here and there with mediation/arbitration, estate planning, successions, etc. Totally off my career path, I would like to do some event planning and/or interior design.

Good Luck Everyone!!

[SummerChild]

Hi Soror, yes, I'm trying to pull some stuff together financially. I actually have gotten BE for awhile now but I just skim the thing for the 1 or 2 interesting articles (or at least the ones that are interesting to me) . I'm not much of a financial mind so all of this is very hard work for me. LOL.

I've been thinking of getting a few vending machines and putting them in office buildings. Don't laugh...I'm serious. LOL. Just trying to think of some things that are not that capital intensive and don't require a ton of time. Thinking of doing some stuff on the legal side of things too. We'll see.

I'd love to open a food franchise but your girl does not have time to be in their serving up food... and I would need to do that to avoid paying managers all of *my* money.

Got any good ideas?

Real estate seems good, maybe one or two vending machines...lol....

Originally Posted by RedefinedDiva

Soror SummerChild,

You started a thread on homeownership. Now the entreprenuer thread. Hmmm....Have you been reading Black Enterprise lately? LOL!! I LOVE the spirit of homeownership and savvy business sense. I just need to get beyond the walls of school so that I can REALLY get things jumping in my life.

Anyway, a Soror/schoolmate of mine and I are trying to start up a t-shirt company. Being in school, some days folks just want to throw on a tee and jeans and roll out, ESPECIALLY when it's time to study. We have a few designs and all of the kinks haven't been worked out yet, but it should be up and running by the summer/fall.

As an independent project (if I can call it that), I do plan to start my own practice one day. Even if I don't go full steam ahead with a solo practice, I may just dabble here and there with mediation/arbitration, estate planning, successions, etc. Totally off my career path, I would like to do some event planning and/or interior design.

Good Luck Everyone!!