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Ask HN: Good resources for starting?
1 point by Delmania on June 17, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
After years of mulling, I've decided to take a more active effort to start a side business. The goal is fairly small, something that can generate around $1400 a month to pay for insurance. Before I do that, though, I need to change some beliefs of mine, one of which is that I have nothing to share or good idea. I'm looking for people's best resources on how to start. Stories about people who have successfully launched a side business. Something that can help to change my beliefs as well as give some good ideas on how to start making something people will pay for.


If you literally want $1400 you don't need to invent anything. $1400 over a month is $350 a week, or $175 a day for Saturday or Sunday.

Could you generate $200 a day for two days a week? Almost certainly. Anything from cleaning windows, to shovelling snow, or digging gardens. If you've extra skills and experience it should be even easier - child-care, for example, or dog-walking.

Hacker News is obsessed with side-businesses and "passive income", which is often anything but passive. If you're actually just wanting a comparatively small amount of money then there are much easier ways to get it than starting a business.

(Of course if you do explicitly want to start a business, which your post doesn't really seem to suggest, then good luck to you.)




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