As online entrepreneurs, we all have to come from somewhere. What was your first business? Did you have a lemonade stand? Newspaper route? Some sort of arbitrage business?
My first business: I rented out the American comic books my mom sent me to my Filipino classmates back in the 70s. Zero start up capital. Pure profit (I paid the dudes watching my comic stands--I had two set up on either end of the Don Bosco campus--with free comic reading time).
Inspiration for this thread:
http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/29/smbu...ion=2007053010