Hello from Pennsylvania!

Hi guys, I'm 17 (soon to be 18) and I live in southwestern PA. I obviously don't have much money to start anything with, but I am excited to try to build a business from nothing. In my spare time I enjoy bodybuilding, which is how I earned the name Smalls. I'm ecstatic I came across this forum, I think I will find a lot of help and useful information here. Let's make some money!

welcome fellow pennsylvanian! Glad to have you here.

Welcome to the board!

Hey Smalls, welcome and enjoy the information. Tons here to learn from. Glad to have you!

welcome to the fastlane Smalls.

Alright guys thanks for the warm welcome. Can somebody just ask me a few questions so I can get my post count up enough to start some threads in other sections?

Be glad to. How did you find us and what made you stick around?...More to come, depending on answers.

Actually I just kind of stumbled across this forum though a google search and I liked what I saw. I'm sticking around because I have several ideas for online businesses and I need a little more information before I can get any of them started.

Cool. What do you hope that your online businesses provide you with? What are your ultimate goals?

I hope that my businesses will give me money and something more productive to do with my time, as well as serving as a stepping stone to bigger ventures. My ultimate goal is to make enough from these businesses to move up to things like real estate or maybe even stocks.

What would the real estate and stocks provide you?

I hope that the real estate and stocks will provide me with a great place to live, money to help out my family, and maybe even enough money to get into manufacturing.

Manufacturing what and why manufacturing?

I would most likely buy or open a distillery or brewery because the products have a very large market and there actually used to be a large brewery in my area until a few years ago.
Thanks for the help Runum!

You're welcome. What happened to the brewery? Why did it close? How long ago did it close?

Well, it brewed Rolling Rock beer, if you've ever heard of that brand. It was bought by another company and they decided to brew it in New Jersey I believe. I can't remember exactly how long ago this happened but it was only 3-4 years back. Sometime around there.

Do you know anything about running a distillery or brewery?

lol he wanted questions and Runum certainly gave him questions haha

Read up and enjoy!

I know from experience that the wealth of knowledge here can be overwhelming, especially as you mentioned it seems like a good path is to start in e-commerce and build up to real estate and/or stocks. The thought process being that starting an e-commerce page can be done from a simple template and finding dropshippers(as you posted in the other thread) is not that difficult either. Then once you have the money to invest real estate is a more secure investment and after becoming successful in that you can let your money work for you in the form of stocks and finally do what you really want to do- start your own brewery.

If that's the path you choose to take, just be sure to focus in on one thing at a time and put that much more effort into that first e-commerce site so that when it comes time to become an REI you'll have the work ethic to set yourself above the rest and at the same time don't get distracted by everything else. Take it from me, that first step is difficult b/c there are so many paths to success and there's an expert on practically every step you'd want to take on these forums, from REI to eCommerce to investing and beyond and they're all very enticing

Also realize that there are younger guys such as hatterasguy, ryanpal and CBVentures12 who made the leap and started in REI, which goes to show that you don't have to be a millionaire to get started, you just have to find that niche within the market and find the value you can bring without having the experience or capital that some of the more experienced REI's on here had prior to investing.

Runum- Just a tiny bit, but thats all a long way off so I have time to learn.

vr4playa- How young were those guys working in REI?