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If you were to tell your 18 year old self what business to start what would you say? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by compendiousbeing@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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Hello, I hope all is well. I am an 18 year old that is looking to start a business. I have dipped into the service providing area in July where I was supposed to make websites for people but I ended up doing a free trial creating videos for a possible client. I ended up stopping that. Wasn’t leading me to earning income.

My main question here is, what would you tell your 18 year old self to start? I truly like the idea of having an online business. I am in Computer Science at the moment for school and I was thinking of getting into saas. But I also see tons of different videos on different businesses to start. I just want to mention, I do not have shiny object syndrome. I am just interested in starting & getting advice from anyone.

Also, one thing I see often is, dropshipping, smma(which I tried to go in on), trading and Amazon fba. I see this everywhere. I don’t know if truly you can make a large sum of income from it or it’s just the courses that help them.

I started learning about business at 15 where I started a YouTube automation channel and later stopped that. Then got into cutting hair for others. And ever since I have turned 18 I have been learning a lot more on stocks, credit, as well as retirement plans. But truly retirement isn’t my end goal. I just like idea of working towards something.

So if anyone that is in the business areas I have mentioned I’d be open to hear your perspective from it and any perspective from others as well.

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[–] Pirelly@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I would've continued with what you're doing, Youtube Automation. Or something else with Youtube. This is most likely very long term though.

I would advice to look at what you enjoy, or get a hobby if you can't find anything, and build a business around that. For example I like driving cars on track, and I now make car parts for track cars. If you can fill a gap then you have a high chance to succeed.

Since you're doing CS, you can also try to get into game making. Maybe make youtube videos around that. Lots of options really.

You're still young and you probably live at home so now is the time to try things, by the time you finish school and get a job you're already stuck.