Billionaire Mark Cuban was just 12 years of ages when he released his very first side hustle, so he understands what it requires to begin a company at a young age.
And, he states there’s one basic thing you require to think about if you wish to do it, too.
“The key to starting a business when you’re young is doing things that you can do yourself — things you can do with your own time,” Cuban just recently informed a group of high school trainees at Lewisville High School in Texas.
That indicates beginning with what you understand, he kept in mind.
“If it’s a product, do something that’s easy for you to get and easy for you to sell,” Cuban stated, including: “It really comes down to one simple thing. The best businesses are things you can control and do yourself. That’s what being an entrepreneur is all about.”
Cuban notoriously got an early start finding out to run his own organization as a pre-teen selling trash can door-to-door in a Pittsburgh suburban area. Later, he offered a range of antiques, from baseball cards to coins and stamps, stating the earnings assisted spend for his college tuition.
In each of those cases, Cuban utilized family products and antiques that were available to a kid and offer them for a revenue– following his own recommendations for teens today.
Similarly, as an university student, he worked as a bartender and taught dance lessons to make money. Cuban later on flaunted his dance abilities openly by appearing on “Dancing With the Stars” in 2007, completing 8th in the competitors.
“I was a hustler … I have always been selling. I always had something going on. That was just my nature,” Cuban stated throughout a 2016 episode of ABC’s “Shark Tank.”
Now, Cuban states he frequently informs kids and teens wanting to begin their own companies to do what he did. Build around “something they can make or a service they can offer to friends, family and neighbors,” he informed CNBC Make It in September.
That’s simpler stated than done, obviously: Successfully introducing and growing your own organization is infamously difficult. Roughly 20% of brand-new companies stop working within a year of introducing, according to information from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
“Being an entrepreneur and starting a business doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy and all of a sudden you make a lot of money,” Cuban informed the trainees at Lewisville HighSchool “Being an entrepreneur is the harder way.”
If it was simple, he included, “you all would already be doing it and coming on ‘Shark Tank’ and taking my place.”
Finding something you can manage and do yourself is hard enough. Becoming terrific at it– which, by the way, is Cuban’sNo 1 guideline for generating income– is a lot harder.
It includes thoroughly investigating your organization strategy and possible competitors, looking for financing, and developing backup strategies to permit versatility if you require to change on the fly, the billionaire has actually formerly stated.
As long as you do not mind putting in that work, particularly after you select your organization chance, a world of chance can open for you, Cuban informed the high school trainees.
“If you’re willing to take the initiative and start a business, anything is possible,” he stated.
Disclosure: CNBC owns the unique off-network cable television rights to “Shark Tank.”
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