Earning your first £1m

Looks like you're looking for the same contacts as I am. Why the hell not Imperial!Pure science and tech grads like Caltech and the best in Europe. Go to MIT or Caltech and I hope you've got deep pockets! Imperial is the most successful UK uni in terms of spin-offs and startups. Look up Imperial Innovations for example or Imperial Entrepreneurs. There are whole divisions of VC firms that plow money SOLEY into Imperial startups. I'm sure the same could be said of Cambridge though.

tbh making a million is a very modest goal. but it all depends what you want, having a regular job working 9-5 you would earn a million in 20 years if you were on 50k a year but minus costs and everything you probably wnt see a bank balance saying £1,000,000. i myslef although i am doing a degree have no desire to work for anybody else. it just doesnt appeal to my nature. all i have ever done since i was young is want to own my own company. i spend my life researching new business ideas. my first memory of creating a business was writing a newspaper about our village when i was like nine and wanting to go and sell it to my neighbours(my mum wouldnt let me ) i want to own my own company for more than wealth, i want to be able to run things on my schedule(i often get most of my best ideas at 4am) answering to myself. then to gain a successful established company. for me money is a by product of success. i hate people being negative about saying you wont be a millionaire etc because ive had to put up with it all my life, my mum likes safety and security in a job, me and my dad like to be more adventurous, my dad wanted to sell his current business(its only a small cleaning company) and start up a garden nursary but wanted mum to leave her job she wouldnt so he still has his small cleaning company lol. Although i want to run my own companies for other reasons apart from just wealth, there are little things which keep my drive going such as nice houses( i saw a house the other day for sale for (£775,000) 6 bedrooms with an indoor swimming pool and gym and thought im going to have that one day good luck all

MIT and caltech I'm looking at scholarships. After cambridge, imperial is my next UK choice.



I love entrepenarial spirit. Maybe we should have a TSR business society. I too like working weird hours. What kind of stuff have you done?

1million, pfft I'm going for the 2million mark

i think a TSR business society would be good well i have had a few "great ideas" that when i did further market research i just realised would not be plausable and unit production costs would be rediculous, but its bouncing back, im currently in the starting stages of running a catering company specialising in weddings and corporate events, and befor any of say anything i know theres hundreds of them out there, but that doesnt bother me, it shows theres a market out there which is a plus point, competitors are healthy they keep you on your toes. theres only two things you need to be able to beat theose competitors and thats to do things better than they do and have a better marketing ability and i reckon i have the ability to beat 90% of other caterers on both fronts. if any of you are keen entrepreneurs check out www.entrepreneur.com its got loads of great articles, it is american so some stuff doesnt apply to us but its still decent.

All my seriously profitable ideas have involved very low startup costs. I have tried to set up the society. Currently, my main thing is supplying the commercial fishing industry with equipment, which we manufacture. Money is good, time needed is little, and flexible.

i am a huge fly fishing fan and one of the businesses i was going to set up in the early part of this year was a social networking site for fishing and was later going to open up an online store, i was going to call it fishbook, i saw the domain name was free and was going to buy it. i went back to buy it 2 days later and it had been snapped up another thing that put me off was a web designer wanted £5k off me and you have to remember i am still a student. since then social networking for fishing seems to have popped up everywhere. i think i missed a biggy but oh well you live and learn next time im going to be quicker off the mark. what kind of fishing do you do?

i am a huge fly fishing fan and one of the businesses i was going to set up in the early part of this year was a social networking site for fishing and was later going to open up an online store, i was going to call it fishbook, i saw the domain name was free and was going to buy it. i went back to buy it 2 days later and it had been snapped up another thing that put me off was a web designer wanted £5k off me and you have to remember i am still a student. since then social networking for fishing seems to have popped up everywhere. i think i missed a biggy but oh well you live and learn next time im going to be quicker off the mark. what kind of fishing do you do?

Yes, I am.

erm ....lol

sorry ??

http://www.propertyfinder.com/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id=502183258&f=10&p=10&t=res&ty=&fmt=&header=&cc=&regionid=143&tb=&c=30850164&snf=rbs&tm=1219702760

or

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or

http://www.propertyfinder.com/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id=502451810&f=20&p=10&t=res&ty=&fmt=&header=&cc=&regionid=143&tb=&c=30850164&snf=rbs&tm=1219702760

or

http://www.propertyfinder.com/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id=503621822&f=0&p=10&t=res&ty=&fmt=&header=&cc=&regionid=143&tb=&c=12286304&snf=rbs&tm=1219702934

or

http://www.propertyfinder.com/cgi-bin/rsearch?a=o&id=503826757&f=80&p=10&t=res&ty=&fmt=&header=&cc=&regionid=146&tb=&c=18117036&snf=rbs&tm=1219703020


etc

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all less than 1 000 000

ur such a geek lol...mines a proper 5 bedroom house....and its well over a million so suck my balls

well it wouldn't in the north either really...all 5 bedroom houses in decent areas are 1million plus...tho they will no doubt go below that figure over the next few gears...and then no doubt go back up again....

I'm up for it. I'm considering a number of career paths; robber and drug dealer are at the forefront of my mind currently. If anyone has any other ideas (not pimp though - tried it and it's high risk early on) then I'm always open to new possibilities. I've been thinking about murder but am not sure exactly what can be gained? If anyone has studied a BA/BSc in Murder then maybe they could give me a few pointers?