Come to the tech side
- 1. Come to the tech side
- 2. Design unlikely futuresStart with a program like Googles’ sketch up or blender play around with something that you have always wanted around the house. Need a new leg for that action figure, or a Lego AK-47 for the kids? Here is your chance to finally design what you always needed, but never knew how to get.
- 3. Fortune Favors The bold.Decide what business model suits your current situation, the capital you have to spend, the time you have to invest, and then go for it! For less than 5 grand you can create your own fabrication shop or merely play at being Santa’s next elf in your spare time.
- 4. Hobbyist or Home business?Custom Legos$11,000 bicycle frame
- 5. Maker Bot LoveA 3D printer that can create in molten plastic or cupcake icing will run you $750.00. Better yet its made in Brooklyn, New York. Talk about Joey Ramone approved!
- 6. Prototype completeNow take that mock up and go to the internet. You can find companies to do small batch manufacturing for you sites like www.alibaba.com are there to help match you with the production facility that is right for you.
- 7. orBe like teenage (yes teenage) surf phenom Andrew Doheny of New Port Beach, California. Start shaping boards for you and your friends, go global, then be ready to retire before High School Graduation. Check out Andrew and his stable of riders at www.3slobs.com
- 8. Market for Free on the InternetUse social networking to market your new brainchild. My Space seems to favor the arts and provide groupies. Facebook gets the critical 19-25 crowd. Twitter is followed by 27-35 year old (that may or may not suffer from ADD) and Foursquare bears monitoring at this point, but truthfully not much else.
- 9. Sell your Goods on ebay or craigs listUse ebay to reach a national or even international crowd. Craigs list to have a more local clientele. Paypal is free to set up payments with and they take a smaller cut of your earnings than do standard credit card transaction firms.
- 10. Donate here!When you make your first million and can’t decide which charity to give to. Remember that you learned all you needed to know to make millions from yours truly!