Business Ideas for Lunatics of a Feather

Okay, so Dave and I were talking about starting slow and scaling up, still with the idea that we "keep the day jobs" and just do something else on weekends. Keep in mind, this is a slowly ramping up proposal that involves little risk and little start up costs, but could take a while to achieve...

So, here is a proposed plan of attack:

1) We use a model similar to the comic book approach Brandon mentioned. That being, we all have our own home-based businesses to start. We use the "poor man's silk screening method" listed below as this is bare-bones cost. Sputnik does the M.U.S.C.L.E.s, Brandonstein does Silent Creations, I do CreepyGram, etc....

2) Once the costs have been recouped for our materials, we put the profits in one fund. This is to save up for actual equipment (silk screening big-time volume like Dave's post) to up the volume of our home-based models (though we would need to house the equipment in one location, of course).

3) The smaller home-based companies then take a portion of the profits to save towards the collective, once again, to purchase even more equipment and perhaps scale the business to something permanent. This is only a portion for the umbrella business, the amount of which can be determined by all of us...but the remainder of what we make from the home-based stuff stays in our pockets.

4) We expand on the shirt customization with other equipment, but still similar in approach. Here are some examples of that:



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5) We move into a real office/warehouse and establish one company. We make enough to hire cronies to do the manual labor and smoke Cuban cigars and drink fine brandy...

THOUGHTS?!