We translated his text into Russian, slightly changing the style - that is, all the smart thoughts there are from Lifshitz, and all the stupid jokes are from us.
By the way, the fact that Yuri’s text is posted on the new website Medium, in itself already shows how you can act when “everything has already been invented”: while the world is captivated by Twittering and Instagramming, one of the creators of the same Twitter has made a convenient platform for those who still like to write and read long texts - and on people went to her.
How to find new ideas for starting a company
Coming up with business ideas is a skill. And you can develop the habit of seeing opportunities for launching new projects in everything that surrounds you.
Many serial entrepreneurs have a special notebook for new and interesting ideas. You can get one for yourself too.
Actions:
- Choose tools to find ideas.
- Generate some ideas with them.
- PROFIT
1. Live in the future
Stay on the cutting edge of MacBook Air. Use something that didn't exist yesterday. Read about new inventions. Think about products for the new generation.
The future lies in wearable gadgets, self-driving cars, DNA tests and atom-thin materials. What products and services should arise around such things?
Think about change by finishing the sentence "If you are in the future...": for example, "if you are in the future, all the cars around are electric" or "if you are in the future, no one uses cash." And then create a company that makes it happen.
2. Become an expert at something
There are areas where you can't get to from the street. Customs, prisons, medicine, defense, nuclear energy, bridge construction. Usually they create their own company in such areas only after many years of experience in others. Become such an insider and you will open your way to the big market with high threshold entrance.
Michael Bloomberg worked in IT at the investment bank Salomon Brothers. In 1981, he was fired, receiving compensation of $10 million. With this money, he created the company Bloomberg L.P., which provides financial information to organizations interested in it. Now the company is the market leader, Bloomberg is the mayor of New York, Bloomberg’s fortune is on the 13th line in Forbes.
Become a master of some powerful tool. Learn to make mobile applications, online stores or use big data. Then date a bunch different people, ask about their problems and see if you can help them.
Be really great at two different things at once. Medicine and sales, IT and government contracts, culinary and retail. At their intersections there are a lot of unique opportunities.
3. Solve your own problems
Find the problem that is stopping you from living. Pay attention when you can't find something for ready-made solution. And problems arise when something changes in your life. When you become a parent, you will see so many new opportunities, it’s impossible to find enough.
It's the same in the B2B sector. You have one company, and it cannot solve some of its problems. A second company is created to solve such problems, and then this second company suddenly becomes larger than the first.
Patrick Collison founded the Stripe payment system after being tired of connecting other people's inconvenient payment systems to his previous projects. Flickr came into being when developing an online game required convenient way store user images, and the game itself is safely closed.
4. Look for pain points
Look where people waste time and money, work ineffectively, suffer, lose everything and generally look like a Munch painting. And then go out in all white and correct this with your project. Know as much as you can about hunger, poverty, epidemics, unemployment, crime, traffic jams, pollution and corruption. Make friends with those who have been working on these problems for years.
5. Improve what's already there
Look for what people hate. Finding rental housing, parking, obtaining visas, moving, visiting doctors. Find a better way to solve these problems.
Use modern technologies to rethink the way we do everything. How should workers perform their jobs in the smartphone era? How should hospitals operate in the digital age?
Monopolistic leaders have almost no incentive to develop. It’s very difficult to challenge people like that, but sometimes it works. Virgin Atlantic began as an attempt to provide a better service than British Airways.
6. Link low-cost resources to rich buyers
Buy cheaper, sell more expensive. This simple formula has been in effect for centuries, and now it is becoming even easier to connect goods and buyers from different parts of the world. China has a ton of cheap manufacturing capacity. IN developing countries oh cheap work force. Somewhere there are abandoned factories that can be rented for pennies. And somewhere in the other hemisphere people have a lot of money and unsatisfied needs. For example, freelance job boards like Odesk and 99Designs connect workers from developing countries with successful companies.
7. Copy and improve
Most ideas are derivative. Many successful companies started out as clones. See what you can add to successful ideas. New sales channels, best service, increased quality?
In small business, trendy topics come up all the time. Today coworking spaces and bubble tea are popular, tomorrow everyone is talking about private kindergartens, and the day after tomorrow a wave of SMM agencies arrives. These waves move through the world with a significant delay, and you can have time to be inspired by a new one. It's safer than something unknown and more fun than buying a franchise.
In the USA, each college has its own merchandise - sweatshirts, T-shirts and caps. This was not accepted in Russia. One student decided to change this, founded UniFashion, and now students wearing his products can be found in any dorm.
8. Travel
Understand successful business from the other side of the planet. Every industry has its own innovation centers. Fashion business ideas come from Paris and Guangzhou, software business from the Valley, financial business ideas from New York and London.
In the early 1980s, Howard Schultz worked at Starbucks. At that time, the company only sold bean coffee, without offering any drinks in its stores. Having gone shopping in Milan, Schultz saw coffee shops on almost every street there. He discovered that they not only served excellent espresso, but also met people: coffee shops were public places that played an important role in public life Italy, and there were 200,000 of them in the country. Upon returning, Schultz tried to convince the company owners to do the same. When he was gently sent away, he left Starbucks and opened his own chain of coffee shops. And a few years later he was so successful that he bought Starbucks itself and made it a world-class phenomenon.
9. Make decisions for newly opened markets
New products from big companies create many attractive opportunities. If you react quickly, you can become part of this market.
Venture capitalists understand this. Therefore, they create special investment funds for Facebook applications, Google Glass applications, Bitcoin services. When big changes come, entrepreneurs and investors try to ride the wave.
The same works for small local establishments. Follow large construction projects like metro stations and airports, the process of gentrification.
In 1975, MITS released the first commercially successful home computer, the Altair 8800. One Harvard student decided that selling software could become a business for him. He and his friends wrote a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 and began selling it in partnership with MITS. This student was Albert Einstein Bill Gates.
10. Improve a useless product
Do anything on your knee in a couple of days. Ask your friends what needs to change so that they start using it. Update. Ask again. Repeat until you have a service for millions. Everyone knows the fairy tale about the porridge made from an ax, right?
11. Talk to smart people
Typically, entrepreneurs value their own ideas and consider others' ideas to be secondary. Don't let your ego get between you and a great opportunity.
Elon Musk once gave the idea to an installation and maintenance company solar panels his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive. Today their SolarCity is valued at billions of dollars.
Bad ideas
Here are popular ways of coming up with ideas that very often lead to failure:
- Analogy. Every second person does X for Y, like “Hermitage for digital art”, “Instagram for video” or “Excel for hipsters”. It sounds impressive, but most of the time it doesn't work out. Most likely, your market has its own specifics and a solution from someone else’s market will not work. And if it does, then the source of your inspiration may come and trample you. Who needs numerous “Instagrams for video” now that video has appeared on Instagram itself?
- "Product Vision". Many entrepreneurs start by presenting their new product with all the details and nuances. But it’s not difficult to come up with anything, and usually what you come up with has nothing to do with the real needs of the market. Majority good ideas starts with the client.
Every idea has its drawbacks
Even your best ideas will have downsides. Find and acknowledge them. An idea can be implemented if you find a way to effectively deal with shortcomings.
Don't discard ideas that involve a lot hard and unpleasant work. If you can cope with it, you will find yourself in a market with low competition and will be more reliably protected from young punks.
Availability successful competitors more of a plus than a minus: it demonstrates the presence of demand. If you have a demonstrable difference from them and evidence that this difference can attract enough customers, you can enter even highly competitive markets.
Sometimes successful business starts from a very small market. This can work if a few users simply pray for you, and there is a clear strategy for how to survive from a narrow niche to entering a wide market.
Ideas are born in the process of communication. Talk to everyone around you about trends, markets, and your existing ideas. New guesses are guaranteed.
Ideas are born through empathy. Understand other people's pain and you can come up with new solutions.
Ideas come from curiosity. How should everything work? What will the future look like?
Ideas come from the subconscious. Write down your area of activity and the requirements for the idea. Then just do other things. A few days later, the idea will appear without any effort.
Having seen enough successful stories of billionaires who invented Internet services from scratch and became rich, newcomers to business also want to follow this path. They are also trying to come up with something completely new that will be useful to people, but not everyone’s expectations are met. To ensure that your startup ideas are in demand, follow these recommendations:
1. Come up with a service, service or product that will improve your life.
2. You yourself have a clear idea of how to bring your plans to life.
3. Your idea is also interesting to others.
How to find startup ideas?
Don't complicate your life, don't reinvent the wheel. Constantly brainstorming ideas can only cause constant pressure and nervousness.
1. Examples of successful startup ideas show the need to find a problem and meet people's needs. This is easy to do - you need to observe and identify discontent in your current life.
Mark Zuckerberg, by creating Facebook, solved his problem. He spent a lot of time on the Internet, he wanted to meet and communicate with people also on the Internet. He solved his main problem, and then it turned out to be a solution to the problem of the world community.
Observe what irritates you and what others do, while simultaneously thinking about how you can improve the situation.
That is, change your focus from the category of inventing to the position of noticing.
2. After you have noticed the problem and come up with its solution, evaluate at first glance the prospects for the development of this idea. How many people can you benefit? Will a startup be able to grow into a big company?
3. The next stage is the search for like-minded people, just like you, who believe in the idea, who are turned on by the mere thought of working on a project, and who are not ready to work only for a salary.
Typical startup mistakes!
1. Most likely, there was little faith in this idea or the problem was just invented, but in fact society did not need it.
2. Not all startupers work with like-minded people. They try to organize everything themselves. Having just one founder in a startup makes it difficult to attract investment.
3. This error does not apply to Internet startups, it is more for offline business. It is important to choose the right location. Perhaps you should choose a more central area in the city for promotion or choose a completely different city.
4. Selecting a startup with low margins. Small sales combined with low margins and, as a result, the enterprise is unprofitable.
5. No customer focus! In this case, when a businessman pursues his policy and does not analyze feedback from the client. By listening to customer wishes, you can improve the product, thereby retaining new satisfied customers.
6.Unqualified team. The ability to recognize a professional in his field and invite him to work in a team is worth a lot. Only a beginner can not always do this. He does not always understand who is a professional, especially in an area in which he understands nothing.
7. Lack of sufficient funding. Try to last as long as possible on your own funds and achieve certain results. To go to investors, it is important to show some results from independent work. In this case, they will have more confidence in the project than if the idea is at the zero stage.
8. There is no clear representation of the portrait of the audience who will want to buy the product. Not knowing the client is a failure in marketing promotion. 
Successful startups in Russia!
Foreign and Russian market entrepreneurship is noticeably different. What is popular abroad does not always take root here. I will pay attention specifically to Russian startups that have development prospects. The most popular industries are IT technology, medical, nuclear, and space developments. Here are some successful startup ideas:
1. IT, Internet technologies, mobile applications.
http://www.ecwid.com is a convenient online store module. This is an application that can embed a store on any website and is the best application for selling on Facebook. For convenience, the store is added to all your social accounts. networks, blogs and administered from one place.
http://gvidi.ru is a convenient mobile application for iPhone and Android. This mobile guide recommends where to eat. It takes into account a person’s tastes, searches for nearby establishments, and can be used to reserve tables.
http://oktogo.ru is a convenient service that allows you to book a hotel anywhere in the world.
http://wizee.ru is an indispensable application for offline shopping. It makes it possible to locate stores in mall, where promotions and discounts take place.
http://ibuildapp.com is a unique platform that allows people who are not programming literate to create their own applications for iPhone and Android.
http://www.excursiopedia.com is a useful service for tourists and vacationers that allows you to book places of entertainment, excursions and other active recreation.
2. Another broad area is scientific and medical developments.
http://www.knopka24.ru is a service through which you can call for help. Designed for older people and people with disabilities.
http://www.latan.info – scientific development of an artificial lens for the eyes, which has high quality and can enter the international market.
http://lactocore.com – unique development of identical components breastfeeding which allows baby food have a beneficial effect on child development.
Ideas for a startup are near us, you just have to look around.
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Opening your own company is the dream of many people. Just imagine: you work not for your boss, but for yourself. You organize production activities yourself and are responsible only for your own work. Later, when you begin to achieve some success, you will be able to hire employees and earn more money, expanding the sphere of influence. This is a very interesting prospect, but most people do not even think that it can be brought to life, and not just kept in dreams.
Introduction
The two biggest obstacles on the path of many people who continue to take a job they don't like, although they dream of starting their own business, are lack of money and lack of ideas. Almost everyone believes that to open your own company you need to have a huge budget, as well as be a creative genius who can take creative ideas out of thin air.
Reselling items
Trade in modern world very different from what it was 10-20 years ago. The fact is that technological progress has led to the creation of online stores, which have not supplanted real ones, but have taken a much higher place in the industry. Naturally, to open your own online store, you will have to try and spend money: you need to create your own website, purchase a large assortment of products, find suppliers, promote the resource and advertise your activities.
But you can start small: now there are a huge number of web pages on the Internet where things are sold from hand to hand. That is, someone sells their things, and someone looks for what they need and buys what the first person put up for sale. This is where it's easy to start your own business. You can look for cheap items and then resell them for more. If you buy a wholesale supply of some popular product at a low price, then it makes sense to sell it at a substantial markup.
In general, there are many opportunities, and you can start such an activity with a minimal budget. If things go well, you can gradually move to a higher level by opening your own online store.
However, this is far from the only startup with minimal investment. There are many other options for you to explore. Which startup with minimal investment should you choose? Here you should decide what you personally like and what gives you more pleasure.
Organization of holidays
Before considering another idea, it is necessary to refer to the term “startup” used above. What it is? Many users may not be aware of what this strange word means, but it has long been part of speech modern people. So what is a startup? What it is?
A startup is new business, which you open on your own, in most cases it starts with one person or a group of like-minded people. And your personal startup can specialize in organizing a variety of holiday events.
You will not have to spend a lot of money to provide services, since they will be intangible. Professionalism plays an important role here, so it is worth focusing on this aspect. It is recommended to start with children's audiences, as they are less demanding. When you have completed a certain number of events for enough high level, you will definitely be noticed. You can help this with online promotion.
Advertising agency
How else can you make your startup? The idea of an advertising agency may seem extremely unrealistic to many, but in reality it is much simpler than you might think. All you need is a creative mind, as well as basic equipment such as a computer, printer, scanner, and so on.
Then you just need to look for clients, of whom there are plenty on the Internet, if you know how to do this. An advertising agency can consist of one person or a small group of people, and it is not necessary to rent an office - you can engage in advertising activities right from home. So advertising business- this is an area in which you can safely start your startup. The idea is very profitable if it can be implemented correctly.
"Husband for an hour"
It is quite possible that you have already seen advertisements for “husband for an hour” services, which do not imply any intimacy, as some may think. In reality, such a “husband” must be a jack of all trades and be able to do a lot, starting with plumbing work and ending with the repair of small and large household appliances.
However, such a startup has one thing big advantage- you don’t have to spend money on implementing your idea at all. All you need to do is take a toolbox, which is in every apartment, and go make money. Considering that Russian startups are becoming increasingly popular, you will have to try hard with advertising to stand out from the rest. However, this will not be a problem if you are remembered by your clients for your versatility and professionalism. As a result, you can gain such popularity that you will leave all Russian startups far behind. They will envy you and look up to you as an example.
Freight transportation
As mentioned above, online shopping has changed modern commerce, and this also affected cargo transportation. Now you can easily open your own business in this area if you have a driver’s license and a car. How to launch a startup of this kind? It’s always better to start on your own, delivering goods to online stores, as well as to clients of such outlets.
Even if you don't have a car, you can take out a loan. With good workload, it is possible to make a profit of about 35 thousand rubles per month from one vehicle. And when the loan for the car is paid off, the profit will increase to 50 thousand rubles. Naturally, if you decide to expand and buy more cars, you will have to think about salaries for drivers. But you are guaranteed to have at least 20-25 thousand rubles per vehicle per month. As you can see, profitable business startups do not always require incredible investments from you.
Animal breeding
Startups with minimal investments in Moscow are quite real idea, but what can we say about small towns, whose population does not exceed 100-200 thousand inhabitants? Here the conditions are much more difficult, but you can always find your niche. For example, you can raise pets. Just study the demand and purchase those animals that are of more interest to the residents of your city.
One of the most convenient and effective options is the breeding of rabbits. They are undemanding animals that reproduce at a high rate, and a purebred rabbit can fetch up to five thousand rubles. In order to open such a startup with minimal investment, you will simply need a project. You need to conduct an analysis to ensure that demand does not drop, and also plan how you will house the animals. Remember that they are not things and you will have to care for them and take care of them.
Shoe repair, key making and other manual work
As in the case of “husband for an hour”, in this option you need to be good at doing what you are going to make money from. Buying equipment for work is not so difficult. It can also be purchased on credit, which is easy to pay off over time. In times of crisis, Russians are less likely to buy new shoes and try to repair old ones, so you should definitely take advantage of this opportunity. This is a low-investment startup that will pay off fairly quickly.
Beauty salon services
As you can see, examples of startups with minimal investment are almost endless. You just need to determine what you can do best, as well as what brings you pleasure. Use your ability to do haircuts, makeup, or any other beauty procedure by trying to charge money for it. Initially, you can dye your hair or do your nails at home, so you don't have to rent a space. Build up client base, starting with your friends, and then expand and gain popularity.
Tutoring
Another very common and interesting option- this is tutoring. As part of this, you will need to teach the subject that you are best at. This is a service that has always been very popular, but becomes especially relevant closer to the moment when school graduates begin to prepare for admission to higher education. educational establishments. Use the power of the Internet. Start small and then expand - chances are you'll end up with your own foreign language school.
Catering
If you know how and love to cook, then you should use it not only to eat yourself, but also to feed others. Naturally, for money. This does not mean that you need to rent a huge area and set up a restaurant with a hundred seats. Three or four tables will be enough to start with. Some do not do seating at all, selling food to go, while others simply prepare meals at home and then deliver them to customers’ homes (or they come to pick up the order themselves).
Making crafts
Another startup for those who know how to work with their hands, only this time in a more creative direction. If you know how to sew, knit, or carve wood, then at any moment you can start making money from it. There are enough resources on the Internet where people sell what they make with their own hands, while earning good money. Later, you can create your own online store and even promote your author’s brand.
Web development
IN modern society, which relies on the Internet, website development is an incredibly popular business, so if you have the desire, then you can start earning money without investing a penny in it. All you need is knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. There are tens of millions of websites on the Internet, but the demand for their creation not only does not fall, but is constantly growing. So you can discover a new career path by ending it as a director of a large IT company.
Online consultations
This startup may be a little similar to the one about tutoring. Its difference lies in the fact that you do not need to invite clients home and do not need to go to their homes to teach a particular subject. All you need is a program that allows you to make calls over the Internet, such as Skype. As a result, you will be able to give lessons on any topic without leaving your home or leaving your computer. At the same time, the possibilities are not limited to school subjects: you can give legal advice, teach business and even do astrological forecasts and predict the future of customers. As you can see, the possibilities for starting your own business with minimal investment are unlimited.
A startup is necessary for economic development, since it is the missing link between science and production. The scope of projects is not limited to scientific, technical or technological areas and can support any trend.
How to make a startup successful
What is a startup
A newly created company is called a startup. It is usually at a developmental stage, formed by innovative ideas and is not necessarily officially registered. Characteristic Features such a business project is a lack of funding and the precarious position of the subject entrepreneurial activity in the market for the provision of services, production or sale of products. To achieve a goal, risky decisions are often used.
Why a startup?
What is a startup
Large corporations successfully promote products that are already in demand and do not strive to introduce into their plans projects that still need to be developed long time. Their income is stable, and when promoting innovative ideas, it will be reduced due to the need to invest funds and scatter the attention of the business manager due to the formation of an additional niche for earnings that will not be received immediately. Therefore, the founders of large business entities rarely engage in startups, since it is easier for them to create a subsidiary or register an individual business to ensure mobility and efficiency in implementing new ideas.
The founders of projects are not necessarily current business representatives, they can be ordinary individuals who have set a goal, know how to convince and work for results.
Trend selection
According to statistical data compiled by participants in the startup community, entrepreneurs in the field of ecology, defense, science and culture have low chances of developing projects. With a competent approach to business, you can try to promote a project to successful results in a niche that supports the mass market and education. Quick and stunning results can be achieved in medicine, tourism and communications. It should be noted that forecasts generated based on the analysis of historical data are not accurate, but they allow one to assess the existing trend.
What is the key to success?
The successful implementation of an entrepreneurial idea and its introduction to the market is the goal of any startup at the stage of its formation. However, not every project acquires this status. The reason for failure is the choice of an irrelevant trend or incorrect organized business. So what is the key to success when implementing a business idea for a startup?
Idea
The main component of the success of the project is an innovative idea, which should be unusual and fresh.
Its parameters in terms of prospects and demand are assessed by investors, and their decision on cooperation depends on the impression made by the innovation and the expected results from its implementation in business. An idea displayed on paper, in the form of a business project, even without material implementation, can be expensive.
Team formation
Stages of startup development
An indispensable element of success is a well-chosen team of individuals. The implementation of a conceived idea can be carried out by one person, but in such a situation it will take more time to achieve results. Difficulties may be associated with the need to conduct simultaneous activities in several directions: developing a strategy, managing and entering the sales market, as well as finding investors when the project is insufficiently financed.
The team must be formed in such a way that its members complement each other with qualities and skills that companions lack. In a partnership, it is important to distribute responsibilities for planning, networking, product development, production and implementation. When selecting partners, you should take into account not only the knowledge and skills of the applicants, but also their age, passion for the idea and willingness to work until results are obtained.
The main question of people’s economic actions is: “What could be done so that after that they do nothing?” But, alas, this is not yet achievable; one has to constantly look for a means of subsistence. For some people, a regular workplace isn't enough and they want to try themselves in a new role. Well, now this is quite possible. The article will discuss the possibilities and features of practical implementation if you want to implement such a thing as an idea for a startup from scratch.
Expanse of ideas
It is worth noting that the choice of implementation is present, and it is huge. You can make a choice based on your desires or skills, if you have ideas about your own business (for those who cannot invest a lot of money and at first would like to get by with the minimum). There is an opportunity to realize oneself, based on knowledge of computers, programming languages, in the design, production of goods and products for rural purposes, as well as by producing various small things useful in everyday life. Within the framework of the article, an approach to the design of each idea will be considered, as well as several proposals in general outline, the specifics of their implementation will depend on the readers and their approach. It should be said that in Lately Startup ideas without investments are gaining quite a bit of popularity, but this is kind of overkill: at least you will have to spend your time - never forget about this.
How to format ideas
How to formulate an idea and its implementation? To create a rough business plan, you can go through the steps below.
- Set yourself a goal that the startup must achieve.
- Decide on a set of secondary goals and when to achieve them.
- Write the most detailed plan for achieving all your goals in such a way that they form a real mosaic, where everything is in place and there are no contradictions.
- Decide on a daily minimum of work. But don't take too little, otherwise you won't be able to do anything. And don’t set the bar too high, otherwise constant failures will only undermine self-confidence.
- If you want to work for yourself, understand that you will have to work. The first time will be very difficult, so you should think about possible rest, entertainment and self-discipline.
- Each idea must be worked out from the point of view of supply and implementation of what is produced. Who is the potential client? From whom can you purchase raw materials? Where will the production processes take place? Is it possible to find partners? Are these the questions that need to be addressed first?
Examples of successful ideas
Here's a look at a few ideas that have had significant success in the past. But trying to follow them now is quite problematic due to the fact that the niches are occupied. These were really ideas successful startups. Let their example inspire you to search for things that have not yet been invented.
- Social media. The pioneers who offered people the opportunity to communicate and additional functionality can now boast of the fact that tens and hundreds of millions of people visit their sites every day. But at the moment this niche is occupied, even thematically.
- Sale of branded clothing. Previously, this was a pretty good way to make money, but after the market was flooded with cheap goods from China, the prospects are very vague. The only way out is the official implementation of something based on a popular brand.
- Search engines. The late 1990s and early 2000s became real breeding grounds for search engines, which have now grown to enormous proportions. But now attempts to create more advanced technologies from scratch are not crowned with success due to the complexity of the task.
- Services for travelers. Once upon a time they really promised, but now that the market has been captured by several large players, it is very difficult to offer something worthwhile.
Opportunities with minimal investment
In order to have more or less real proposals that could potentially bring profit, several opportunities were selected that can only be called interesting startup ideas. Their estimated cost does not exceed 50 thousand rubles.
- Earning money in photo banks. If you have a good digital camera, the ability to beautiful pictures and the desire to earn money, you can try to earn money by selling them. First you need to shoot everything that gets into the camera. And then, when you have already figured out what is popular, photograph the most popular and expensive ones. If you already have a camera, this is the real idea for a startup from scratch.
- Resale of goods. Quite often you can see offers for the sale of goods from China. Have you ever looked for original sites where all this is purchased? Well, if you find it, you may be surprised to see that the price on trading platforms or in groups social networks overestimated several times. For a good start, a capital of 20-30 thousand rubles and a month of active promotion will be enough. By the way, using the social factor is not such a bad idea. Therefore, while you don’t have your own website, you can get by with a group on one of the popular networks like VKontakte or Odnoklassniki.
- There are some types of small businesses that are seasonal. And making cotton candy- one of them. This startup idea does not require significant investment and allows you to earn good money. In the warm season, you can earn so much that it is enough for quiet idleness in the cold or for doing something in which you are interested.
Self-realization at home
The previous paragraph considered opportunities with minimal investments in the presence of a fairly significant active component. And if you don’t want to, and it’s preferable to organize everything at home, what ideas are there for startups from scratch? Then this list is at your service:
- Growing greens. So, alas, it turned out that there is a certain amount of production in the state. And food is no exception. It should be said that this is more suitable for those who live in a private house and have free land. You can grow onions, parsley, dill and other plants that grow quickly and can produce results a dozen or even more times a year. In general, this proposal can be written into startup ideas from scratch, because it allows you to analyze the market yourself and make a choice in the most profitable direction, and the minimum for starting can be found in any rural house.
- Ceramic floristry. This one is more suitable for girls, but there are no gender restrictions. The meaning of ceramic floristry is to make flowers from... clay! This activity requires good manual skills, however, if you have talent, it can become something promising. Flowers can also be additionally painted.
- Soap making. What a great way to use homemade soap! And you can make good money from the desire of some people to wash themselves with it, if you approach it wisely. There are a lot of options here, and there is room for experimentation: ash soap, with real chamomile (or their decoction). In general, whatever your heart can come up with. And this option may in the future serve to generate new related ideas for startups from scratch in the field of human hygiene.
Features in the Russian Federation
If you want to start your own business, you should decide whether you are ready to overcome significant difficulties? The fact is that upon opening you need to pay 22 thousand rubles, which, however, will be taken into account in the future tax paid. But the start is not the most problematic. The main troubles are caused by the process of closing your business. This is the most problematic aspect that a startup in Russia has. Ideas therefore should be well prepared and be ready to implement them through the “I don’t want to”. I also bring to your attention brief descriptions of situations and needs in the country that may be able to encourage you to develop your own original business.
Implementation in the field of information technology
There is a real staff shortage here. Ideas for IT startups at home allow you to organize an enterprise that in the future can grow into a large corporation. Therefore, if you have programming skills, and better yet, programmer friends, you can organize an enterprise that works on a contract basis. That is, an agreement will be drawn up with some company to perform a certain range of work, after which payment will be transferred to the company. These are not all startup ideas. Programming provides a wide range of its own implementation, and where to find a place for yourself here is not a problem.
Sales in alternative energy
The problem is increasing the rather low efficiency. So, in solar panels it is a little more than 40%. Therefore, if you have the knowledge and skills, you can try to build your future on sales of improved alternative energy kits.
Sales in agriculture
As mentioned earlier in the article, our country is experiencing a certain shortage of food products. Therefore, having a small garden plot, you can count on making money by growing herbs, vegetables and berries. How can we not mention the situation that the residents Russian Federation have the right to free receipt land plot on the territory of Siberia and Far East. The calculation is as follows: 1 hectare per family member. Considering the cost of food in these areas and minimum required for accommodation, this offer looks very attractive.
Sales in production
You can try yourself as the head of a company that deals with secondary production processes. For example, collecting and recycling suitable waste. There is quite an active discussion about the possibility of processing rubber (usually from car caps) into crumbs for later use. In general, this area is quite promising and underdeveloped.
Various little things
If you don’t want to leave your comfortable zone, you can start making various aesthetic little things, which will later be sold through social networking groups or special shops. The objects of work can be knitted clothes, gloves, bracelets, figurines and other things.