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Tara680 · 10-05-2009, 01:15 AM

Rabbit,

I have a couple of suggestions for you.

You want to start your own brewery or nonprofit organization without tapping into your savings? You can do that.
Write a business plan. Plan out a marketing strategy. Write down your strengths and weaknesses, then look for an Angel Investor. Go to SCORE, it is an organization of former CEOs and the like who will sit down with you and help you with your ideas, for free.

Or you could start a small home brew operation for like $100. Just get it going, and then take your product to friends and taste sampling shows and see if people are generally interested in it. If so, you can expand and start selling your beer and then worry about getting your liquor license, etc.

I think it was on one of Steve's articles where he noted how many of us secretly admire the insane homeless guy on the street shouting obscenities, because he is probably more happy than most people caught in the "rat race". And I believe that is true. I do not ever see myself working for someone else ever again, or if I did, it would have to be for a LOT of money. I would be happier making $40,000 myself than $100,000 working for someone else, that is sure.

Life is what you make of it. Dont ever give up on your dreams. Try and fail. Who cares, at least you tried. Now get back up and try something else. You only get one life. Go after what you want.

10-05-2009, 01:15 AM	#73 (permalink)
Tara680 Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 73	Rabbit, I have a couple of suggestions for you. You want to start your own brewery or nonprofit organization without tapping into your savings? You can do that. Write a business plan. Plan out a marketing strategy. Write down your strengths and weaknesses, then look for an Angel Investor. Go to SCORE, it is an organization of former CEOs and the like who will sit down with you and help you with your ideas, for free. Or you could start a small home brew operation for like $100. Just get it going, and then take your product to friends and taste sampling shows and see if people are generally interested in it. If so, you can expand and start selling your beer and then worry about getting your liquor license, etc. I think it was on one of Steve's articles where he noted how many of us secretly admire the insane homeless guy on the street shouting obscenities, because he is probably more happy than most people caught in the "rat race". And I believe that is true. I do not ever see myself working for someone else ever again, or if I did, it would have to be for a LOT of money. I would be happier making $40,000 myself than $100,000 working for someone else, that is sure. Life is what you make of it. Dont ever give up on your dreams. Try and fail. Who cares, at least you tried. Now get back up and try something else. You only get one life. Go after what you want.