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Old 01-02-2007, 06:27 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Entrepreneur Needing Advice - Please!

Short background information. My fiance and I are 21 years old and are juniors at a university in the NW. We're both very computer and internet savvy and have made an income for the past 2 years in college off of our skills. However, it seems everytime we find a skill that can work, something fails and we have to start from scratch again. For example. As a lot of college players do, I played poker my freshman year of college online. Starting from $150 deposit I cashed out 13k in a 2 month span. As my grades dipped a bit and then online poker became illegal in the state I had to change.

I then went to textbooks which has been successful here and there throughout our business, we've had too many problems lately with sellers not following through or magically 'lost in the mail'. We made on average $10-20 profit per textbook sale, with some extremes at $120+ and breaking even. We even ventured into flipping sports cards on ebay and on a few cards we made $600 on a 3 day flip. But again, lost in the mail and fees ate away at our profits.

So here we are now, we have around 2-5k to invest in capital of some sort or an idea to try and get a steady income for the next 4-6 months. We're not looking for ridiculous figures, just enough to be comfortable until summer.

I've looked into ordering products out of Asia and selling them on ebay, even found a great product in a green laser pointer with $200 profit per laser but customs are not banning the item.

I'm looking for any tips or advice, I've found myself in a hole the last few weeks when it comes to ideas. If anyone has any insight or would like to work together or anything of the sort. Please reply or pm. I'm not looking to 'invest' in your company, we're looking to do the work here. However long and hard the work is, we're willing to do it. Getting a job is not the easier option as we're both taking 18 credits and our hours of availablity are best set online. Thanks a lot

Jason & Brynn

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And on a side note, we're both business and econ majors so we're not clueless on the matter. I'm also a powerseller on ebay with 99.9% feedback so selling on ebay is alway an option with the right product.

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Old 01-02-2007, 06:46 PM   #3 (permalink)
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That's quite interesting

ANother thing you could possibly do is buy an established website for those k and then build it up to get good value out of it
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Again, I've received multiple PM's on 'investing' in your company or purchasing your 'mentorship or tutoring'. Not interested, do not bother.
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