#ThrowbackThursday: If you could go back 30 years in time, what business would you launch? š Picture this: you’ve got all the knowledge you have right now, and the possibilities are endless! š” Would you start a tech company, invest in the stock market, or maybe open a trendy coffee shop? āļø Let’s dive into some time-traveling entrepreneurship! š«
Imagine the excitement of being able to change the course of history with your modern-day ideas and strategies. š We’re curious to see what innovative business ventures our fellow time-travelers would embark on! Share your thoughts and join the conversation below! š #TimeTravelEntrepreneur #30YearsBackChallenge š°ļø
Why start a business and do all that work when you could just buy 90s web stocks, move it to Microsoft or Amazon at the right moment, and then move it all to bitcoin in like 2009? You could be a trillionaire.
Buy Apple stocks
YouTube
Tech investment holding company, wait for the known large tech companies to start and buy as much of their stock as possible.
What does it say that every answer isn’t a business but just some way to invest?
Mortgage origination. 30 years ago, it was a pretty sleepy business. Starting around 1994, it just exploded. And since in this scenario I have a crystal ball, I would sell that business around 2005.
Definitely would be establishing a hedge fund
Telecommunications firm
Netcoin
Mixing two mega bubbles to make a cocktail šø
Lougle search engine
Social media likely
nah bro I would just invest.
I’d buy stocks or I’d be in the oil industry
Iād sell books and articles about future happenings like Nostradamus. Make a cult. Build a 20 foot 200lbs joint. Have cult worship joint and just live happily from there.
Artificial diamonds
I would reverse engineer the supply chain that feeds Nvidia (like, what raw materials, products etc are they requiring to make their chips) and then become their go-to supplier š
Other than buy the right stocks i would by up any billboards i could get my hands on . They are like gold today i have heard .
And also invest heavy in real estate
Hedge Fund or PE
Amazon.
A stock trading firm, and use my knowledge of stocks to make huge wins.
I’d start by riding the tech bubble, getting out right before it burst in 2000.
Then invest in real estate by buying vacant land and putting houses and small apartments on it, selling everything off before that bubble burst in 2008. But keep a single warehouse in an area with cheap electricity, such as near a hydroelectric dam.
Fill said warehouse with servers and other equipment to start mining cryptocurrencies the moment it became possible in 2009.
Real estate in 2008
My seo business. Wouldāve murdered the game
If u do 50 good trades, u would be one the worlds richest
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You had 3 things happening in the 90s in terms of businesses launching and getting dumb money:
– Visionary opportunities that hit the right timing and market
– super stupid ideas
– businesses too early for the market (Palm is a great example)
Amazon and PayPal are the former. I won’t even indulge the stupid ideas, there were too many. The last was the hard one and, honestly, probably what most people here would try to do. Taking our ideas from now back then means putting out something that is based on where our society and experience is now, not then.
Many things wouldn’t be appreciated or understood, OR someone else would see what you did and do it better (Facebook over MySpace, xanga, etc).
**I think that the most impactful business that I would start in the 90s is either a website builder or aa no-code site. (Or a database company and server farms)**
It would have increased adoption of tech insanely.
A lot of people thought that computers were just for nerds. Computers were JUST becoming accessible to the layperson.
However, now, imagine that the layperson could create games, apps, and websites without having to have technical knowledge.
A lot more people would mess around with that.
HyperCards did that in a way.
What company would I start in 1994?
Netflix.
Data collection. SEO. Real Estate.
Become a youtuber and have atleast 10 channels
Enron
Domain name arbitrage. In 1994 you could register domain names like tires.com for $5.00. Iād buy thousands of them and wait.