The £100 challenge – start a business

[TotalControl]

Are we allowed to include things we've found after a while stacked under st that you'd forgotten about? I found loads to sell but will need the £100 for eBay fees more than likely.

[Hoofy]

I think you ought to include the cost prices of those items. Otherwise, someone could sell their Ferrari on Autotrader for £30...

[muppetdave]

Hoofy said:

Someone could sell their Ferrari on Autotrader for £30...

Can I buy it now for £25 please Mister?!

[jammy_basturd]

I would have thought it needs to be sustainable as a business too. Essentially what you're suggesting is selling all of your possessions until you have nothing left. It's not so much "stock and re-stock" if you get what I'm saying.

[Hoofy]

muppetdave said:

Can I buy it now for £25 please Mister?!

Sure, I'll sell you an advert for a Ferrari for £25.

[TotalControl]

jammy_basturd said:

I would have thought it needs to be sustainable as a business too. Essentially what you're suggesting is selling all of your possessions until you have nothing left. It's not so much "stock and re-stock" if you get what I'm saying.

I'll get my wife to sell them later then.

Time to start hunting for stuff then.

[Frimley111R]

As the OP, and unless there's particularly good reason not to set these rules, I will add:

You can't sell things you already own

As this is a fairly informal challenge there is no requirement to have you results verified. If you say that you generated X by doing Y then that's good enough.

[FactoryBacked]

Now that the thread appears to have gathered a bit of momentum, and with the deadline on the horizon, should we start to put a list together of challengers and their ideas?

I'll start:

FactoryBacked - E-commerce websites - one cycling related and one motorsport related. To start with...

[Shrimper]

like it!

FactoryBacked - E-commerce websites - one cycling related and one motorsport related. To start with...
Shrimper - breaking of a particular sport-specific item and resale of individual parts

[WetPaint]

FactoryBacked - E-commerce websites - one cycling related and one motorsport related. To start with...
Shrimper - breaking of a particular sport-specific item and resale of individual parts
Wet Paint - Independent cinema (starting as a small film club)

[Hoofy]

FactoryBacked - E-commerce websites - one cycling related and one motorsport related. To start with...
Shrimper - breaking of a particular sport-specific item and resale of individual parts
Wet Paint - Independent cinema (starting as a small film club)
Hoofy - (1) Health website (2) Porn Pointless YT videos

[WetPaint]

Channel? I'll Sub

[Hoofy]

WetPaint said:

Channel? I'll Sub

Thanks. "darrensurrey" on YT (http://www.youtube.com/user/darrensurrey). It might not be quite as pointless as I make out but definitely no porn. I'm quite a prude, perhaps. Put it this way, if I were a duchess, I'd not be sunbathing topless.

[mondeoman]

FactoryBacked - E-commerce websites - one cycling related and one motorsport related. To start with...
Shrimper - breaking of a particular sport-specific item and resale of individual parts
Wet Paint - Independent cinema (starting as a small film club)
Hoofy - (1) Health website (2) Porn Pointless YT videos
Mondeoman - Gaming accessories

[raw]

FactoryBacked - E-commerce websites - one cycling related and one motorsport related. To start with...
Shrimper - breaking of a particular sport-specific item and resale of individual parts
Wet Paint - Independent cinema (starting as a small film club)
Hoofy - (1) Health website (2) Porn Pointless YT videos
Mondeoman - Gaming accessories
raw - Skinning Carbon Fibre car parts

[naturals]

Hoofy said:

Hoofy - (1) Health website (2) Porn Pointless YT videos

I'm always curious as to how people make money out of YouTube clips. Care to share?

[WetPaint]

Advertising revenue from the pre rolls and those little pop ups at the bottom of the screen.

1000 views will get you somewhere between 50p and £5 depending on who you talk to.

So those people with 500k views per video, who put out 3 or more a week are laughing.

[Hoofy]

Yep. Those ads. Views = money, click-throughs = more money, clicking your own ads = find another revenue stream.

[OlberJ]

I thought i was out but now i'm back in.

FactoryBacked - E-commerce websites - one cycling related and one motorsport related. To start with...
Shrimper - breaking of a particular sport-specific item and resale of individual parts
Wet Paint - Independent cinema (starting as a small film club)
Hoofy - (1) Health website (2) Porn Pointless YT videos
Mondeoman - Gaming accessories
raw - Skinning Carbon Fibre car parts
OlberParts - Breaking vehicles

[elster]

I thought i was out but now i'm back in.

FactoryBacked - E-commerce websites - one cycling related and one motorsport related. To start with...
Shrimper - breaking of a particular sport-specific item and resale of individual parts
Wet Paint - Independent cinema (starting as a small film club)
Hoofy - (1) Health website (2) Porn Pointless YT videos
Mondeoman - Gaming accessories
raw - Skinning Carbon Fibre car parts
OlberParts - Breaking vehicles
Elster - Industry Specific App

Never made an app before so this will involve a lot of learning.