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.

  • Itchy_Neighborhood51B
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    1 year ago

    I was exactly where you are. So many ideas with all results posted for me to see. It made it easy to wish to try everything. I am 20 now, but started when I was 13, took a break and hit it hard at 15… Here’s what I wish I focused on

    Your number one approach is to answer these questions:

    1. What is something you’d like to learn and become an expert in?
    2. How can you use this skill to provide value to people? (People pay for value)
    3. What knowledge must I have in order to GROW this money? (value investing, not trading. Expansion. Systems, etc.)

    Hopefully this helps.

    Best Regards,

    Landon