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Can we the FFA start a company and get rich? (1 Viewer)

Otis

Otis

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What business would we be in?  What would we do?

Who will lead us?  What would the roles of other posters be?

Could we start a successful and profitable company on the brain power and elbow grease of the FFA?  Tell me how.

 
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Otis said:
What business would we be in?  What would we do?

Who will lead us?  What would the roles of other posters be?

Could we start a successful and profitable company on the brain power and elbow grease of the FFA?  Tell me how.
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MLM - selling something 

 
A current events news station where we argue over the dumbest things making no sense whatsoever while contradicting ourselves. 

Every news station out there does this, I assume we can profit from it. It seems like the main thing we are collectively good at

 
If you were to start a business with a purely distributed workforce, it would need to be in web or services. For the former, content creation (a blog/site like Elite Daily or the Dirty wherein our crew could produce dozens of articles a day).  For the latter, something like a courier service where we would immediately have a footprint in tons of markets.  However, both models have razor thin margins and we would lose interest quickly.  

The only other viable option would be to leverage our numbers and, uh, familiarity with each other to create an Angel Fund to invest in startups.  If 40 people put in $2500, for example, we could be first-dollar financiers of 2 to 5 other businesses and hope for the best.  

So "no." 

 
Ticket scalping.

We've got a bunch of guys that know random stuff and have random interests. In college hockey tonight, Gopher-UND tickets were going for $500. We could target individual games and season tickets for teams we know we could potentially get 3-1 or better. A bunch of degenerate gamblers could act as quality control. 

We only need boots on the ground.

 
What if we opened a place where the customer could make their own pizza and potatoes?

We give them the dough, they smash it, pound it, fling it in the air; and then they get to add the sauce and get to sprinkle your cheese, and they slide it into the oven.

Then they get to prepare their potato. They could bake it, fry it, peel it, boil it, mash it.

We'll make sure that it's all supervised.

 
An IDating profile editing service. 

We get paid a graduated commission starting with offdee 5's. 

Sechs with a 10 we would get a million dollars. 

 
Abraham said:
If you were to start a business with a purely distributed workforce, it would need to be in web or services. For the former, content creation (a blog/site like Elite Daily or the Dirty wherein our crew could produce dozens of articles a day).  For the latter, something like a courier service where we would immediately have a footprint in tons of markets.  However, both models have razor thin margins and we would lose interest quickly.  

The only other viable option would be to leverage our numbers and, uh, familiarity with each other to create an Angel Fund to invest in startups.  If 40 people put in $2500, for example, we could be first-dollar financiers of 2 to 5 other businesses and hope for the best.  

So "no." 
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If we didn't want to be completely legal, I'm sure it would be a cinch. There have to be some folks here who work as buyers for some large corporation. I know there are folks who have contacts with manufacturing firms in China/Asia. I know there are guys who have the funds to float the first shipments until payments are made.

Wholly illegal, but that's the easy way for three guys here to strike oil.

 
TheAristocrat said:
Ticket scalping.

We've got a bunch of guys that know random stuff and have random interests. In college hockey tonight, Gopher-UND tickets were going for $500. We could target individual games and season tickets for teams we know we could potentially get 3-1 or better. A bunch of degenerate gamblers could act as quality control. 

We only need boots on the ground.
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This could work.  

 
Gawain said:
If we didn't want to be completely legal, I'm sure it would be a cinch. There have to be some folks here who work as buyers for some large corporation. I know there are folks who have contacts with manufacturing firms in China/Asia. I know there are guys who have the funds to float the first shipments until payments are made.

Wholly illegal, but that's the easy way for three guys here to strike oil.
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"Art Vandelay? This is my boyfriend?"


"That's your boyfriend."


"What does he do?"


"He's an importer."


"Just imports? No exports?"


"He's an importer-exporter. Okay?"


- Elaine and George, working on his alibi, in "The Cadillac"


 


 
We could start a new 50 state political party and run candidates in federal, state, and local elections. Once we have enough people in place the money will flow in due to massive pay to play arrangements which we will use to obtain even more power, eventually turning our investment returns towards global domination.

 
Nah, too many slackers in here, hanging out on bulletin boards instead of putting in an honest day's work

 
We could start a headhunting company with just a few of us on the payroll to start.  Everyone else keeps their current job and works to get us MSAs with their company so we can start working searches with them.  Each person gets a % of the fees we collect from the company they were able to get us signed up with and you can also earn additional fees for referrals of candidates we place. It can be additional income for some and anyone who show promise in identifying candidates can quit their job and join us full time.

 
lod001 said:
It will never work. Everyone will end up getting banned from the company.
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Unlikely as I know the industry and can coach people on how to do this properly but even if this were to happen occasionally it would more affect that individual and the company itself would hardly skip a beat.

 
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