Any Entrepreneurs out there??

[audaz49]

Originally posted by Greekopedia
well,

a sigma lambda beta runs greeknation.com



and i want to do a greek store tooo... doh haha

so not the type of thing I want to do...
I'll post up some pictures of the kind of things i do once I've got it together... definitely more on the *unique* side

[Greekopedia]

I've been researching the whole greek store thing. Its amazing how many major organizations have licensing before any store can sell their products. And its pretty expensive too, making it hard for startups to get into the industry.

[TheBestOfYou]

I ran an online magazine. I'd consider it a modest success. It was worthwhile and engaging for a while, but I realized how little time I had to devote to it, so I sold it. I am a writer by profession so I always imagined something like that would be an absolute dream come true - but to be perfectly honest, it was just okay. There's more to me than the ability to regurgitate a press release in pretty language (which is basically what I was doing), and I wanted to give that side a chance to shine.

Right now I'm in the midst of opening a copywriting firm. I am so fond of picking apart grammatical and spelling errors that I thought I may as well make some money doing it. I'm going to be writing copy for web sites, company products, business plans, brochures, press releases, and perhaps more. This is no frills business writing, which is fine with me. I don't have to be fancy with it, but it's certainly more fulfilling than what I was doing with the magazine.

[GAC3710]

I started a charity fundraiser on a radio show for people affected by our state's budget cuts in the healthcare system, specifically people with HIV/AIDS who are using the ryanwhite act as either their primary or sole source of funding for HIV/AIDS treatment and medications. In less than 6 months it went from a radio fundraiser to a subsidary of the ADAP program.

What bothered me the most about the issue at hand was how the state could cut the funding to the people who need it the most while increasing funding to programs that promote abstinance. At the same time when the fraction of funds were dispersed to the various cities, metropolitan cities in particular, most of the mayors in each city chose to cut their healthcare budgets by at least $1,000,000. Financial records indicated the surplus funds after the budget cuts, for each city that made healthcare cuts, were mostly appropriated to construction projects that were never completed. And as if the fire was not flamed enough, the projects designated were all in areas where the wealthy lived.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by GAC3710

I started a charity fundraiser on a radio show for people affected by our state's budget cuts in the healthcare system, specifically people with HIV/AIDS who are using the ryanwhite act as either their primary or sole source of funding for HIV/AIDS treatment and medications. In less than 6 months it went from a radio fundraiser to a subsidary of the ADAP program.

What bothered me the most about the issue at hand was how the state could cut the funding to the people who need it the most while increasing funding to programs that promote abstinance. At the same time when the fraction of funds were dispersed to the various cities, metropolitan cities in particular, most of the mayors in each city chose to cut their healthcare budgets by at least $1,000,000. Financial records indicated the surplus funds after the budget cuts, for each city that made healthcare cuts, were mostly appropriated to construction projects that were never completed. And as if the fire was not flamed enough, the projects designated were all in areas where the wealthy lived.

That sounds like a bad situation, glad you did something about it.

[RU OX Alum]

also, once I get my new computer (tonight!) I will finally be able to get the first DVD done. Even if it sucks, I can sell I copies of it for like $10 a piece. It will be a collection of short works already filmed called "Experiments in Light and Color" or maybe Color and Sound. Or Light and Sound. Whichever one sounds best to me at the time I make the cover will be the title of the DVD. Hooray.

Do I need a Business Licence, or just the DBA paperwork?

[Greekopedia]

hmmm everything is made by you? so its your property?