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Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
Do not open a donut shop.

e: And shame on you all for even remotely encouraging this.

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Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
There are no kind of restaraunts that are guaranteed to make money, most fail in 5 years, the doughnut shops you see that are successful are either the products of huge conglomerations, or existed for 20+ years, with established clientelle. Unless you have a cool fad you know will work, you're not even going to have a chance. You will take the small fortune that you have and squander it almost immediately.

You want to be a good leftist or w/e and do it ethically, then that also means supporting the labor of people whose entire life is dedicated to knowing how to do this properly. There are pro-union accountants and treasurers and business owners who can tell you how to ethically run a business. And running a new business into the ground with a bunch of hopefuls is not only a huge waste of resources, but going to be crushing to the people you sold this idea too and hired.

If you're not willing to build a business plan, learn how to run a business, or even go look at how a proper business is run, you're not equipping yourself to do this well. You will fail, and it's not because of nay sayers, it'll be because you got super excited about an idea, and didn't want to do the proper research to learn how to do it right.

Running a proper business has nothing to do with good vibes, or stick to it'veness, or whatever else you're thinking of. It requires accounting.

Think about this, even pirates had a codices of how to properly run their business, and the quartermaster, the accountant who decided how much food is needed, how much each specific part costs, and how to properly fund the expeditions and plan them, got the largest share.

If midcentury pirates needed a business advisor why don't you?

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
Not only are you going to fail, but your failure will be the first thing future employers learn about you if they google you. You will have to explain the gap in your employment history as "Couldn't run a business." The entirety of your legacy will be when goons talk about failures, you'lls will get a sentence or two mentioned in passing as a cautionary tale of how stupid goons are, and how easily they all manage to gently caress up.

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
Literally, someone else on these forums tried to do this exact thing already and hosed it up. You don't even know how to make a loving doughnut.

Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos
People who don't gently caress up businesses. Successful business people, don't go to the somethingawful forums and ask "Is this a money making idea?" and then ignore every piece of advice given. In fact, successful business people know the answer to that question before anything else, ESPECIALLY before buying expensive equipment.

When you gently caress this up, I'm going to print this thread out as a stunning indictment of the pro-life abortion movement.

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Boba Pearl
Dec 27, 2019

by Athanatos

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

probably one of the important things to figure out in making a business plan is the difference between gross margin and net margin

wow what a loving idiot.

he should be using butter.

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