Thread 33524362

Is it worth starting a business in 2025? Everyone around me raves at me to start a business like it's a guaranteed gold mine but what do I even start it in and how do you make money with it?
I can't seem to find any info on how to actually run a business because every book/video/podcast I listen to just ends up being some retarded motivation speaker cringe content instead of actual logistics
Seems like a scam in 2025

what do you make

>>33524374
current job is 50K and is have about 10k in savings currently. It's just some shitter office grunt job so no reliable experience to translate into a business unfortunately.

>>33524362 (OP)
Starting a business is always risky. Especially if you need to ask on /adv/

>>33524362 (OP)
>every book/video/podcast I listen to just ends up being some retarded motivation speaker cringe content instead of actual logistics
How do you think people are making money? Selling the dream is more profitable than actually doing the work.

>>33524484
that's what I was thinking. There's hardly any info on what the actual work is in a business. I get that a business is trying to sell something but the day to day logistics and operations of that selling is something that I just cannot find any information on at all for any field really.
Seems like I'd just have to walk in blind which is not a good idea in today's jewconomy

I don’t see it as a guaranteed path to economic prosperity, but it really depends on the niche or area you want to get into.

I’d start by attending meetings with your city’s Chamber of Commerce and asking for recommendations on where to begin.

ChatGPT and the internet can be great resources for materials that help you evaluate options you might not have considered before.

>>33524362 (OP)
Yes, I would get into making gadgets for use in space, licence or sell them to bigger space companies.

>>33525296
Assuming I make the gadgets with no issue, how do I go about licensing and selling them?

Is it stupid to sell templates on Etsy? Maybe I can make some money, I am good at design.

>>33524362 (OP)
As a guy who does small business IT type shit (think of the worlds smallest MSP, then think smaller?) the key is to start small in your time off. Go on upwork (which is an absolute shithole) and find out if you like short term (like this weekend) contract semi-skilled labor.
Also there's a BIG difference between not liking being a landscaper (or maybe liking it) versus owning and managing a landscaping company.
Another point is good enough is the enemy of perfect. Your first company idea will probably fail so it doesn't matter if you like mowing lawns go be a landscaper anyway.
If you can read, write, and speak English, and you're reliable and not high all the time on some drugs, you're ahead of about 95% of the competition in several fields such as landscaping which is why I use that as an example. What you learn managing a small time landscaping company will pay off when you start your "real" company 2, 5, 10 years from now where you won't be able to risk making dumb business mistakes you'd have learned if you were a landscaper for a year.
Don't quit your job and don't do anything relate to your workplace.
Small time businessman is sometimes just formalizing your paperwork and how you operate. You're not "a guy" who mows lawns or "a guy" who buys broken shit, fixes it, and resells it with a guarantee, you're a small businessman. You may grow that into a full time job for yourself, or even for a hundred other people, someday, just not today, not yet.

>>33525340
Network with NASA employees and ask them what they need. Read the requests that NASA (and ESA) puts out for commercial suppliers.

Read
Turn Your Idea or Invention into Millions
by Don Kracke,

and others on patenting your ideas.

Look at how salaried jobs keep lagging behind the cost of living and then ask yourself what it will look like in 10-20 years

You basically have little choice but to do it unless you want to be living in Hong Kong styled cages when you're older

>>33529686
I agree with this anon. A proper business is where you manage a bunch of people to provide goods and services that, in a job, you would make yourself. If more and more front-line workers are being replaced with tools, then it behooves you to get a "team" of tools, reserving to yourself the role of ultimate generalist.

I'll give an example. Someone mentioned landscaping:

As a landscaping (which I only have a superficial knowledge of) business owner you might have a team of workers doing mowing, pruning, tree surgery, planting, pest control, sales, billing, equipment. As AI makes inroads you replace each with a robot or app. Do that with sufficient agility and you stay on top of the pyramid and have a comfortable living.

>>33529997
I would also include a drone to take photos of what's been done to send to the customer.