Need encouragement for starting a small internet business selling energy drinks from my apartment

[Sean]

any good words would be appreciated. or if you want to talk me out of it, go ahead

[Magnus]

Do it!  Safe is the new risky -- there is no economic safety (and nothing good generally) to be found in conventional employment anymore.  Self-employment (if you can call it that) is the only truly viable alternative, especially for someone who is astute and ethical enough to find his/her way to FDR. 

The Internet is the new economy.  We lived through it, and it seemed like it integrated seemlessly, but it was as transformative as the development of steam power, or electricity. 

Two pieces of advice:

1. Buy low, sell high.

2. It's all in the marketing.  Study it day and night.

[Guest darkskyabove]

Try not to get caught up in any psychobabble about the hypocrisy of claiming to be liberty-minded while resorting to current tactics. As we do not live in a free society, how would it be possible to practice a truly free-market methodology?

In fact, there exists the possibility to exploit the mass appeal of liberty while under the statist thumb.

If you do it, do your best; and good fortune!

[masonman]

The idea of doing something like that (starting a business) scares the hell out of me. I feel like everything in this world is way too risky so I just hide in college but now I feel like its not any better in terms of risk-reward. I think some of my depression came out of the understanding that I might spend the rest of my life this scared and uncertain.

So props to you for, at the very least, developing some kind of plan and direction.

[YMS]

What is an energy drink? Just out of curiosity.

 

It's not like it's a high risk venture, really, if you start in your apartment, is it? I mean you can start very very part time while you still have a "regular" job. You will not need to produce more until you have sold your stock, so you'll spend more time & money only when the previous production has already been paid for, more or less. Depending on how quickly the next lot goes you will know if there is a real interest in your product, if demand is constant or increasing or decreasing, etc.

I see this as a pretty low risk venture, so bottom line is "why not?" or "what have you got to lose?".