[Jimmye]

Originally Posted by nado

hehe, I'd love to... I'm finding uni work to be very boring and time consuming atm.

I saw a figure yesterday that said 60% of entrepreneurs don't have a uni degree. This was at a "small business and entrepreneur presentation", which was basically a powerpoint presentation with info from the textbooks, and one guest speaker who makes and sells jewellery.

Where was this presentation? Do you have a website will it be in sydney?

[Jimmye]

Btw there are 100's of wana ebay sites just like this in aus. Usually you find the big sellers of ebay have their own site from ebay.

[nado]

Originally Posted by akula

small business sucks. it's too hard. think young big business. it's a completely different ball game and they're easier to work with.

I'm freaking out. they're floating http://www.wotif.com/ to make like 300million bucks and I didn't get my cut.

On a totally unrelated note, I'm keeping their prospectus under my bed as a kind of financial pornography. I can't beleive a bookings website can make so much money

WOAH! That's crazy... well I guess even simple listings sites can make a nice sum per year. Thinking Australian, www.realestate.com.au is bringing in 8mil a year, so anything's possible.

Yeah I know, small business doesn't have terribly much room to expand beyond the typical family small business.

I found myself laughing (to myself of course ) during their little presentation... don't these people know about the business opportunities on the net!

[nado]

Originally Posted by Jimmye

Where was this presentation? Do you have a website will it be in sydney?

hehe, I should have clarified "presentation".

It was basically a presentation a friend noticed was on at uni, because it was actually one that had to do with "business" or "entrepreneurship". It was just an hour long thing put together by SIFE students from the uni.

[akula]

Originally Posted by nado

WOAH! That's crazy... well I guess even simple listings sites can make a nice sum per year. Thinking Australian, www.realestate.com.au is bringing in 8mil a year, so anything's possible.

Yeah I know, small business doesn't have terribly much room to expand beyond the typical family small business.

I found myself laughing (to myself of course ) during their little presentation... don't these people know about the business opportunities on the net!

haha, yeah you know, there are investment bankers who look at us, laugh and wonder out loud why anyone gets out of bed for less than 50k, "don't these people know about opportunities in FOREX?"

[Jimmye]

Originally Posted by nado

hehe, I should have clarified "presentation".

It was basically a presentation a friend noticed was on at uni, because it was actually one that had to do with "business" or "entrepreneurship". It was just an hour long thing put together by SIFE students from the uni.

Is it a union? Looks a bit left wing to me if you know what I mean.

[nado]

Originally Posted by Jimmye

Is it a union? Looks a bit left wing to me if you know what I mean.

It's like a non-profit organisation which encourages the students to startup business ventures which help the community in some way. They have a competition each year where students from over Australia present the projects they've done etc. The winners from that then go onto the international competition.

It sounded pretty interesting when they had their clubs day at uni so I joined, but the projects they're currently doing are pretty easy, lame and unprofitable. e.g. they're doing an environmental thing with the council, BCP (Business Continuity Plans) for local businesses and a HSBC financial literacy program.

I'm keen to start a young entrepreneur organisation/group next year (or perhaps earlier) and turn it into an Australia-wide thing. The plan would be to get a whole heap of people involved... I remember there was a thread a little while back with interest. I'll gather it all together when I find some time.

cheers
nathan

[wackoo_jackoo]

Why no check out www.studenttrader.com.au

[5wayshost]

Just wanna say, well done and stick at school. Its good to get out a little early but remember schools are fun and you can pic up more chicks and be more popular.

All the best and go for it

what about AusBay.com?

or AusTrade etc etc

[sicnarftea]

Starting and maintain a auction website is crazily hard, esp getting peopel to join and list under you, and to also make sure that all sellers are "clean" and not shoddy bastards.

Anyways, I know the guys over at www.oztion.com.au since last year, and watched them grow from a relatively small website, into a National house hold name for some. If you do a google search on them, yo'ull find that they have been on "Channel Nine" and various other publications.

I always find it very interesting to watch a business which started of slowly grow so fast and big.

=)