£20 to start a business

edscdk · 23 Jun 2012 at 22:59

spend the money on a knife... ask someone in the street for their money (showing them your knife) etc etc

Joshct · 23 Jun 2012 at 23:06

Counterfeit £20 notes.

bloodiedathame · 23 Jun 2012 at 23:08

I'd buy some Jonnies and prostitute myself.

ng93 · 23 Jun 2012 at 23:08

Last year I made a simple android app. The dev software was free, the phone I already had, and the registration for the android market was ~£20. Ended up making £1k from it. So i'd do the same but this time put the money into making better apps, rather then what I actually did which was buy some mods for my car.

flibbage0 · 23 Jun 2012 at 23:12

RomanNose said:
Ahh I wish I could reveal what I know, but loads of people would start doing it .

I know what it is, I remember you mentioning it, starts with a p, am I right?

T345 · 23 Jun 2012 at 23:13

flibbage0 said:
I know what it is, I remember you mentioning it, starts with a p, am I right?

Pogostick?

TNGL · 23 Jun 2012 at 23:17

Play Golden Balls with it.

Deleted member 77746 · 23 Jun 2012 at 23:30

This is how business works and a lot of businesses did start with £0.00.

Deleted member 77746 · 23 Jun 2012 at 23:31

T345 said:
I would go onto eBay, try to get some cheap computers, then sell them for profit, keep on doing that. Then buy OcUK!

You already do that with computer components

T345 · 23 Jun 2012 at 23:31

mrbell1984 said:
You already do that with computer components

I ONLY SOLD TWO!!! so far

BillHicksRIP · 23 Jun 2012 at 23:45

A couple of poker pros have got started with a similar amount. All it takes is the patience of a saint, the ability to react quickly mentally and have a healthy disrespect for money. I have none of these qualities.

arc@css · 23 Jun 2012 at 23:48

BillHicksRIP said:
A couple of poker pros have got started with a similar amount. All it takes is the patience of a saint, the ability to react quickly mentally and have a healthy disrespect for money. I have none of these qualities.

True, though for nearly all players, including very good ones, variance will almost certainly kill such a small bankroll.

Zswizzy · 24 Jun 2012 at 00:05

I personally would just do handyman jobs around the village/town. That can make you a couple of hundred in a week, once I'd built up 1k I would sell a custom pc build and make maybe £50 profit from it (using the 1k to buy the parts) I would keep doing that, everytime I get another few hundred I would start posting different builds, keep expanding until I have 20 different builds rocking, since the person is paying slightly more for the parts and your labor you make back all the money you spent on parts and a bit extra so its hard to lose money in a sense.

But anyway that prolly wouldnt work in the buissness world but meh.

wnb · 24 Jun 2012 at 00:57

Start a cleaning business, advertise in free places such local chartity shops, notice boards etc. Depending on where you live you can get up to 18+ an hour Far from glamourous and can be a tough job on occasion.

dowie · 24 Jun 2012 at 01:11

bum said:
This thread is intended at stealing people's ideas

ideas are worthless, anyone can have an idea, being able to implement it well is the key

dowie · 24 Jun 2012 at 01:16

arc@css said:
True, though for nearly all players, even the decent ones, variance will almost certainly kill such a small bankroll.

yup - technically you'd be under rolled for even 1c/2c

SexyGreyFox · 24 Jun 2012 at 01:21

Isn't this what Alan Sugar did and he keeps going on & on about it?

Rotty · 24 Jun 2012 at 01:26

arc@css said:
True, though for nearly all players, even the decent ones, variance will almost certainly kill such a small bankroll.

even on £10 SNGs I have had swings of £500

arc@css · 24 Jun 2012 at 01:52

Rotty said:
even on £10 SNGs I have had swings of £500

Ouch!

Do you follow a system or particular method? Iirc, like me you appreciate the works of Sklansky. I bought Sklansky's 'The Theory of Poker' (though I wished I'd have gone for his book just on holdem), but a fair bit of it seems to be going over my head.

Do you use software like HM or Pokertracker? Apparently these are essential for grinding the microstakes / low value games.

Rotty · 24 Jun 2012 at 02:01

arc@css said:
Ouch!

Do you follow a system or particular method? Iirc, like me you appreciate the works of Sklansky. I bought Sklansky's 'The Theory of Poker' (though I wished I'd have gone for his book just on holdem), but a fair bit of it seems to be going over my head.

Do you use software like HM or Pokertracker? Apparently these are essential for grinding the microstakes / low value games.

Sklansky is more suited to cash games though the basics are there for all, the Moshman books cover SNG strategy better

I will be brutal SNG stategy has little to do with real poker, it is all about equity with the basic startegy being fold almost everything early and push in position later unless you have a good reason not to

tbh I play online for a hobby and prob only break even due to playing when ****ed however my live MTT ROI is over 100%

I dont use any tracking SW