

Ask HN: What's a Good Business for a College Student to Run? - movingtohawaii

I'm going into my second year of college, and I'm looking for any suggestions on what would be a good business to run at school.  I'm not necessarily talking about startups with revolutionary technology (I already have something to that effect that I've been slowly working on), but something that can hopefully help pay for school.  Something where if I work 5x as hard, although perhaps not 5x as long, I can increase my profits by a similar factor.  Any advice or ideas are appreciated!
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tiffani
If you can hustle up a few beefy guys, start a moving service. A friend of
mine started school in EE, but left school with the moving company supporting
him full-time. He started it around his second year as well.

Edit: We went to school in DC, so having several universities around
definitely did help him.

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Goodbizidea
Are there things that you donkt like to do? Like laundry or cleaning. Make a
simple business doing the things that other students don't like doing. That is
the whole premise of business, solving problems or doing things that other
people don't want to do or can't do on their own. People will pay for services
they don't want to do. So what are some of the things you don't like doing at
college?

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iliketosleep
something cool which can be developed FAST. brainstorm with some buddies for
specific ideas. you wanna be able to take something to market ASAP so you can
get feedback and learn. but be aware that for better or for worse, the payoff
will be disproportionate to the amount of work. a lot of people work really
hard and make nothing. whereas others can work work equally has hard and make
millions.... for steady predictable income... job.

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movingtohawaii
I'm not really looking for a new technology or idea, more of a tried-and-true
business model that fits well on a college campus/in a college town. My school
has around 14,000 students and I'm sure there must be some service I can
provide them that they would pay for, but I can't think of what exactly.

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chrisclark1729
Helping people move.

