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If money wasn't an issue what business would you choose to open/run?
« on: October 19, 2020, 12:01:57 pm »
I'd love to own and run an aquarium store, specializing in aquascaping.

In contrast to teaching, I find aquariums, particularly the upkeep and maintenance therapeutic and relaxing. I'd keep relatively fewer tanks, but focus on maintaining the healthiest plants and livestock.

Something I'd never get bored of looking at.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SasiZSULZ3U&ab_channel=GreenAqua
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Re: If money wasn't an issue what business would you choose to open/run?
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2020, 12:04:40 pm »
Micro-Batch makgeolli bar with the weirdest infusions.
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Re: If money wasn't an issue what business would you choose to open/run?
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2020, 12:05:22 pm »
I would buy a nice boat and take people island hopping and do sunset cruises in the tropics. Once the virus has gone, of course.
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« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2020, 12:15:43 pm »
I'd open a bakery/deli and do all my own meat smoking.
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« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2020, 12:22:11 pm »
If money wasn't an issue why would I open a business? I'd rather spend that time with my family, traveling, etc.   

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« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2020, 12:23:57 pm »
Quote from: thunderlips on October 19, 2020, 12:22:11 pm
If money wasn't an issue why would I open a business? I'd rather spend that time with my family, traveling, etc.   

That wasn't the question.
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« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2020, 12:43:47 pm »
He could just have a business that required minimal involvement. Like owning a bunch of properties and letting them out to well vetted tenants. 
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« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2020, 12:56:55 pm »
Whore house. Hands down.
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Re: If money wasn't an issue what business would you choose to open/run?
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2020, 01:56:45 pm »
A specialty downtown bookstore only carrying nonfiction (academic, nature, travel, history, philosophy, autobiography, journalism, photography, etc).

It'd be a small two-floor building with just one shop down and my apartment upstairs.

If I owned the building and money was no issue, I wouldn't care about sales. But it would be located near a campus.

Heck, ideally, if money wasn't an issue, I'd have a one-screen small movie theater in the building (award-winning documentaries featured once a month, to continue the nonfiction theme). $2 admission for matinees. Concession offering nuts, dried fruit and bottled water.

Yeah, that would be great. :)
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« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2020, 02:00:25 pm »
Quote from: SPQR on October 19, 2020, 12:56:55 pm
Whore house. Hands down.

Bottoms up!
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« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2020, 02:24:29 pm »
Two things I would do if that 'money is no object' situation came true:

(i) The big Technicolour dream fantasy - I would bring back the old Flying Boat services and take seriously well-heeled folks around the world at a slow pace and in real luxury, stopping whenever and wherever we wanted...!

(II) A more down-to-earth scenario - I would start a business bringing in bands/music artists. etc. to all kinds of countries and venues, and focus on bands I LIKE, regardless of prevailing trends, musical currents, and popular sentiment; My music, my choice, and only for the most discerning palates...!
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« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2020, 02:45:20 pm »
A dive bar in a small Midwestern town.

No theme. No hokey decorations. No flashing neon lights or thumping sound systems. No pretense.

Just a bar, a couple tables, a jukebox filled with country songs that are all at least thirty years old, and a single TV screen in the corner behind the bar. Maybe an old pool table and/or a cork dart board.

It'd just be the local watering hole, where people drop in after a hard day's work to have a cheap beer and complain about their boss. Definitely not a weekend late-night hot spot.
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« Reply #12 on: October 19, 2020, 02:49:20 pm »
Quote from: Titus Groan on October 19, 2020, 02:24:29 pm

(i) The big Technicolour dream fantasy - I would bring back the old Flying Boat services and take seriously well-heeled folks around the world at a slow pace and in real luxury, stopping whenever and wherever we wanted...!


You realize these flying boats were extremely short lived for a reason.

Flying under the clouds exposes travelers to extreme turbulence. Landing
and taking off on water is fantastically dangerous.  The era of flying boats
barely spanned ten years.
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Re: If money wasn't an issue what business would you choose to open/run?
« Reply #13 on: October 19, 2020, 03:15:49 pm »
Quote from: Mister Tim on October 19, 2020, 02:45:20 pm
A dive bar in a small Midwestern town.

No theme. No hokey decorations. No flashing neon lights or thumping sound systems. No pretense.

Just a bar, a couple tables, a jukebox filled with country songs that are all at least thirty years old, and a single TV screen in the corner behind the bar. Maybe an old pool table and/or a cork dart board.

It'd just be the local watering hole, where people drop in after a hard day's work to have a cheap beer and complain about their boss. Definitely not a weekend late-night hot spot.

I was with you there until "midwest".

No thanks, I'll have the place you described on quiet beach in Thailand, Vietnam or Cambodia. 

Since money isn't an issue, I don't care if I get customers.
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Re: If money wasn't an issue what business would you choose to open/run?
« Reply #14 on: October 19, 2020, 03:16:28 pm »
i'd find some good developers and start a video game development company (like what mike morhaime recently did... again) or maybe start an esports production/event company like dreamhack. i guess i'd just be a kind of esports angel investor
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Re: If money wasn't an issue what business would you choose to open/run?
« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2020, 03:29:57 pm »
Quote from: SPQR on October 19, 2020, 12:56:55 pm
Whore house. Hands down.
+ an Adult-Video production company...
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« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2020, 03:30:59 pm »
a guest house and a taekwondo academy
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« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2020, 07:23:29 pm »
Quote from: pkjh on October 19, 2020, 03:29:57 pm
+ an Adult-Video production company...
That's an interesting way to go about it.
In some places, prostitution is illegal, but production of pornography is legal. The only difference - a camera!
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« Reply #18 on: October 19, 2020, 07:54:39 pm »
Quote from: JNM on October 19, 2020, 07:23:29 pm
That's an interesting way to go about it.
In some places, prostitution is illegal, but production of pornography is legal. The only difference - a camera!
On top of that you hire a bunch of production staff. And the actual deed can also be faked, as well as the 'liquid' props.
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« Reply #19 on: October 19, 2020, 08:29:38 pm »
Some kind of farm/ranch+a mine/well+timber would be good. That or something that has the market cornered and produces low-key items that are never going anywhere. Like YKK zippers. Steady durable profit that doesn't involve much in the way of being hands-on.

DeMart Agra: Wheat, Corn, Soybeans, Sorghum, Potatoes
DeMart Orchards: Apples, Oranges
DeMart Ranch: Cattle & Hogs, Racehorses, Donkeys, Mules
DeMart Farms: Poultry, Dairy
DeMart Mining: Iron, Bauxite
DeMart Timber
DeMart Small Parts Supplies: Various niche market component parts
DeMart Crooked Government Contract Construction and Repair: Company that exists purely to get handed road maintenance and building upkeep and public construction contracts via campaign donations. Not even worried about turning a profit.
DeMart Useless Crap for Kids: School Supplies and Toys


I figure if that gets going, eventually I'd be able to branch out into DeMart Petrochemical, DeMart Textile, Demart Generic Pharma, DeMart Securities Exchanges & Futures.

Everyone wants the sexy 21st century stuff but I just want steady money. Nothing that draws too much attention.
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