Hello everyone!
I'm Andrew & I've been a member here for a while. I just finished college & will be receiving my diploma this Saturday, the 20th of May. I'm making this thread to begin discussions with the community in-regards to entrepreneurship. Whether most of the community realizes it or not, anyone whom has hosted a server, worked on a project, sells graphic designs, & freelances is an entrepreneur in some-way shape or form. I personally believe entrepreneurship is really seeing explosive growth in today's time, especially with all of the technological advancements we have been experiencing. My idea for this thread was to begin discussions & journeys with members of the community for their entrepreneurial ideas & projects. This could range anywhere from RSPS related, to Freelancing, to Software Development, to even Consulting. I believe that a thread like this would be really useful for anyone looking for insight, feedback, general topic discussion, etc. Hopefully if this gets popular enough we could devote a section to entrepenuership!
A little about myself:
I am graduating with a BSBA in a concentration in Finance & a minor in Psychology. I am hoping to do something related to behavioral Finance/Economics or investment banking, with a specialization in technology. I've self-taught myself multiple topics, such as: investments, physics, natural philosophy, programming (swift, python, js, html/css), & other areas. I am truly in the mind-state of entrepreneur, and am trying to become financially independent (meaning not having to work for someone else) within a year. I am currently working on a couple projects/developing ideas of mine that are related to the following: Mobile-Application, Education, e-Commerce, Consulting Agency, & others. I think what is beautiful about entrepenuership is breaking your ideas into small goals and trying to build off them. If as an individual one could generate $5k per month, then that would correlate to income of $60k per year, which would allow an individual to live financially independently (in-terms of not having to work for someone else). I'm really hoping that this thread kicks off, and would love to hear people's ideas, insights, and thoughts on a wide-range of topics.
I will start off a bit:
- I am currently working on an agency where I will be approaching small businesses in my state, and attempting to convince them to allow me to take over their social media marketing. Now for this I don't mean just post on their accounts & deal with customers; but actually take over a part of their marketing budget for SMM. FB, Google, & Instagram, allow for precise targeting with users, and many small businesses have not gotten into the Social Medial world yet, this is a great opportunity to begin, and many people have already begun working with this idea. I'm really hoping this kicks off, and will keep an update on this.
- I am also working on a Social Media Mobile-Application, that I hope will kick off, while I can't get into details about it yet, I'm hoping to have an open beta for users by the mid-June at the latest, if everything goes accordingly.
Remember, anything is fair game for this thread, don't hesitate to put your thoughts on this threads; and always keep in mind that we can build-off each-other & learn from one-another. Please refrain from flame & spam. It is okay to disagree & give constructive criticism, just not in a harsh manner!