Tell Your First Business Experience Story
 

My first business--charging fellow elementary students to read US comic books my Mom sent me back in grade school here in the Philippines. American comic book heroes were really popular-- I must have made P50 a day (that's big money back in the 70's). When I moved to the US in 1979 my next business was selling candies from Fedco to fellow elementary school students. My brother and I would buy a big pack of candy for $5 and split it up into twenty pieces and sell it for 75 cents each.

What's your first business experience story?

I beat up some kid for his lunch money.

100% profit baby!!!

I collected basketball cards when I was a kid. I started buying/trading them and selling for more. Same with comic books. I think I was about nine or ten years old at the time

kool-Aid stand . . . probably 6 years old

it may have been lemonade now that I think about it

Yep. I had a buddy who went from collecting comics to selling/trading them at conventions to owning a chain of comic book stores in Southern California. Lesson I learned from him: Find your passion, get good at it, make a living from it.

I tried that, but there was no big money in lemonade.

Tell that to Mr. Chemirinsky. He is also know as Hi-C :winkwink: :1orglaugh

well my first ONLINE biz was selling on ebay. :(

when i am 17 i tried to sell pomegranate ,i bought two boxes aroung 10 kilo i sold one fruit.then bring all remaing fruits my home and ate it every thing

selling my ass for cash

Me and a friend were putting up satellite dishes for people around '92. We said to each other as a joke "If this goes to hell, we'll start selling porn on the Internet". It did go to hell, but we never went into porn. Too bad :)

10 years old maybe, I was buying scrap wood from the local sawmill and selling it for firewood. Nice markup but hard work doing the deliveries...

cant remember :(

I can see that, very heavy load and transport.

When I was about 8 years old I found two 8packs of Miller High Life beer on some guys stoop. I sold them to teenagers in a school yard for 25cents a beer :)

I threw weekend ski trips starting at the age of 13. I wanted to go to killington for the weekend with a company called kings tours - but the trip was soldout. I had them do me a flier and sold out two full busses, all the condo's etc., included breakfast and dinner- had chaperones that were our baseball coaches and made a fortune all the way through high school. A november and march trip was the key as rates were real low. I would be able to package it down to about 99$ a person and i was charging $179 - $229 depending on whether we did lake placid or killington. the stories from the trips are endless... I'll stop here. But that was my first business experience Gene.

How are you?

Hey Evan, how are ya, man? Hit me up on ICQ, bro!