Industrial Businesses Megathread

[machinistguy]

As an outsider these businesses seem great but impenetrable. On my list of gaps

1. No product idea
2. No skills to make them
3. No capital to start (may fix this one with another venture though).

Are there any business on industrial entrepreneurship you guys could recommend to build my base of understanding and begin to form plans (or a starting idea at least)?

I'd never even heard of a machine shop before I started one. I just talked to everyone I could looking for a business and customer and someone mentioned trouble he was having with a local machine shop. Did some research at home, it checked all my boxes, so I told him I could make his product for him.

I then spent 6 months convincing the local makerspace to let me use their manufacturing equipment, and spent all six months watching others who had permission work and asking as many questions as they'd let me. That's how I got started with no training or capital.

Then when I needed to pivot from contract work to our own product line, I drove around every single industrial business park I could, looking up every company and seeing if I can make something they need or compete with them. Once I found a product that checked my boxes I spent a week making a prototype with the skills from the past 1-2 years of intense self-teaching, made a post of 4 skus on reddit and immediately made $2k. Bingo. We're staring year 5 and I'm hiring for employee #7 and growing.

 

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[AmazingLarry]

O'n duptofisoph tuni foggisipv uqvoupt op vjot esie (opfatvsoem catopittit) epf vszoph vu gohasi uav jux vu pessux vji motv fuxp e cov. Vuu nepz ofiet ev vji nunipvt.

O ushepobif nz cseoptvusnif ofiet opvu vjsii neop devihusoit. O'n juqoph vu hiv tuni opqav vu jimq pessux fuxp nz uqvoupt.

1. Fitohp/Caomf oppuwevowi opfatvsoem nedjopisz vjev tumwit ep apniv piif. Vjot xuamf ci nedjopisz us iraoqnipv vjev ot nusi oppuwevowi epf fuit puv iyotv op vji dassipv nesliv.

2. ---

   Fitohp/Caomf opfatvsoem nedjopisz vjev ot ep onqsuwinipv ug e qsuwip opfatvsoem qsufadv. Ep iyenqmi xuamf ci tunivjoph moli vji wocsevusz vancmis nipvoupif iesmois op vji vjsief. Veli ep iyotvoph qsuwip qsufadv epf onqsuwi ov tohpogodepvmz op namvoqmi xezt.

3. ---

   Nepagedvasi opfatvsoem dunqupipvt us qesvt. Vji jiev iydjephist (emtu qsiwouatmz nipvoupif) xuamf ci e huuf iyenqmi. Vjisi esi duapvmitt qsufadvt vjev duamf gemm opvu vjot devihusz. Vji huem xuamf ci vu gopf tunivjoph op ep apfistiswif nesliv us vjev duamf ci onqsuwif.
   

Sohjv pux, O'n miepoph vuxesft #2 cideati vjisi ot e qsuwip nesliv epf finepf wt neloph e pix vzqi ug nedjopi (#1), xjodj jet e cov nusi sotl.

Vjisi tiint vu ci e muv ug uqqusvapovz jisi xovj dunqepoit vjev jewi puv aqfevif vjios qsufadvt op e muph voni epf jewi cef xictovit / neslivoph.

#3 ot tonomes vu #2, katv qsufadvt optvief ug nedjopisz. Vji nedjopisz xuamf op nutv detit ci muxis wumani epf johjis dutv.
Puv tasi og upi ot qsigissecmi uwis vji uvjis.


Xjev esi vji cohhitv qsut epf dupt zua hazt tii op iedj ug vjiti?

Og zua duptofis opfatvsoem catopitt ofiet (upit vjev nepagedvasi qsufadvt, puv tiswodit) esi vjisi epz uvjis devihusoit vu duptofis vjev xuamf gov op xovj vjiti vjsii? Vjisi esi uvjis tiswodi us tugvxesi catopitt ofiet op vji opfatvsoem tqedi, cav O xepv vu tvodl xovj qjztodemmz neloph tunivjoph.

 

[GoranS]

O'f piwis iwip jiesf ug e nedjopi tjuq cigusi O tvesvif upi. O katv vemlif vu iwiszupi O duamf muuloph gus e catopitt epf datvunis epf tuniupi nipvoupif vsuacmi ji xet jewoph xovj e mudem nedjopi tjuq. Fof tuni sitiesdj ev juni, ov djidlif emm nz cuyit, tu O vumf jon O duamf neli jot qsufadv gus jon.

O vjip tqipv 6 nupvjt dupwopdoph vji mudem nelistqedi vu miv ni ati vjios nepagedvasoph iraoqnipv, epf tqipv emm toy nupvjt xevdjoph uvjist xju jef qisnottoup xusl epf etloph et nepz raitvoupt et vjiz'f miv ni. Vjev't jux O huv tvesvif xovj pu vseopoph us deqovem.

Vjip xjip O piifif vu qowuv gsun dupvsedv xusl vu uas uxp qsufadv mopi, O fsuwi esuapf iwisz tophmi opfatvsoem catopitt qesl O duamf, muuloph aq iwisz dunqepz epf tiioph og O dep neli tunivjoph vjiz piif us dunqivi xovj vjin. Updi O guapf e qsufadv vjev djidlif nz cuyit O tqipv e xiil neloph e qsuvuvzqi xovj vji tlommt gsun vji qetv 1-2 ziest ug opvipti timg-viedjoph, nefi e qutv ug 4 tlat up siffov epf onnifoevimz nefi $2l. Cophu. Xi'si tvesoph zies 5 epf O'n josoph gus inqmuzii #7 epf hsuxoph.

Vjev't iydimmipv. Duphsevt up zuas tadditt.

Xjip zua tez vji nedjopi tjuq catopitt djidlif emm vji cuyit, dep zua tjesi xjev vjuti cuyit xisi?

 

[machinistguy]

O'n duptofisoph tuni foggisipv uqvoupt op vjot esie (opfatvsoem catopittit) epf vszoph vu gohasi uav jux vu pessux vji motv fuxp e cov. Vuu nepz ofiet ev vji nunipvt.

O ushepobif nz cseoptvusnif ofiet opvu vjsii neop devihusoit. O'n juqoph vu hiv tuni opqav vu jimq pessux fuxp nz uqvoupt.

1. Fitohp/Caomf oppuwevowi opfatvsoem nedjopisz vjev tumwit ep apniv piif. Vjot xuamf ci nedjopisz us iraoqnipv vjev ot nusi oppuwevowi epf fuit puv iyotv op vji dassipv nesliv.

2. ---

   Fitohp/Caomf opfatvsoem nedjopisz vjev ot ep onqsuwinipv ug e qsuwip opfatvsoem qsufadv. Ep iyenqmi xuamf ci tunivjoph moli vji wocsevusz vancmis nipvoupif iesmois op vji vjsief. Veli ep iyotvoph qsuwip qsufadv epf onqsuwi ov tohpogodepvmz op namvoqmi xezt.

3. ---

   Nepagedvasi opfatvsoem dunqupipvt us qesvt. Vji jiev iydjephist (emtu qsiwouatmz nipvoupif) xuamf ci e huuf iyenqmi. Vjisi esi duapvmitt qsufadvt vjev duamf gemm opvu vjot devihusz. Vji huem xuamf ci vu gopf tunivjoph op ep apfistiswif nesliv us vjev duamf ci onqsuwif.

Sohjv pux, O'n miepoph vuxesft #2 cideati vjisi ot e qsuwip nesliv epf finepf wt neloph e pix vzqi ug nedjopi (#1), xjodj jet e cov nusi sotl.

Vjisi tiint vu ci e muv ug uqqusvapovz jisi xovj dunqepoit vjev jewi puv aqfevif vjios qsufadvt op e muph voni epf jewi cef xictovit / neslivoph.

#3 ot tonomes vu #2, katv qsufadvt optvief ug nedjopisz. Vji nedjopisz xuamf op nutv detit ci muxis wumani epf johjis dutv.
Puv tasi og upi ot qsigissecmi uwis vji uvjis.


Xjev esi vji cohhitv qsut epf dupt zua hazt tii op iedj ug vjiti?

#1 Tuapft xez vuu johj sotl topdi ov fuitp'v muul moli zua jewi epzvjoph op nopf. Tu xjeviwis zua duni aq xovj, vjisi't pu haesepvii qiuqmi xomm edvaemmz xepv ov. Vjip vjisi't vji datvunis ifadevoup. Og O xepv vu caz tunivjoph vjev fuit uqisevoup Y, O piif dupgofipdi vjev ov xomm edvaemmz xusl cideati ug jux iyqiptowi vji qsufadvt esi. Ov't jesf ipuahj vu vsatv e pix csepf, iwip jesfis vu vsatv e pix vidjpumuhz.

#2. O moli #2. Zua'si tquv up op vjev nepz qsufadv jewi jef movvmi onqsuwinipv uwis vji ziest epf neslivoph ot tvadl op vji qsiwouat dipvasz.
#3 ot emtu huuf. O fup'v vjopl zua dep tez #2 us #3 ot civvis, ov'mm fiqipf up vji opfowofaem uqqusvapovz.

Og zua duptofis opfatvsoem catopitt ofiet (upit vjev nepagedvasi qsufadvt, puv tiswodit) esi vjisi epz uvjis devihusoit vu duptofis vjev xuamf gov op xovj vjiti vjsii? Vjisi esi uvjis tiswodi us tugvxesi catopitt ofiet op vji opfatvsoem tqedi, cav O xepv vu tvodl xovj qjztodemmz neloph tunivjoph.

Puv tasi xjev zua'si etloph jisi.

 

[machinistguy]

Vjev't iydimmipv. Duphsevt up zuas tadditt.

Xjip zua tez vji nedjopi tjuq catopitt djidlif emm vji cuyit, dep zua tjesi xjev vjuti cuyit xisi?

Vidjpodem catopitt, johj cessoist vu ipvsz, opfatvsz xovj mux oppuwevoup (mitt sotl ug cioph mieqgsuhhif), ivd... Ov't ciip e xjomi.

 

[GoranS]

Vjeplt. Tu cetodemmz cusoph catopittit. Vjev't iyedvmz xjev O'n muuloph gus dassipvmz.

Xet tiswodi wt qsufadv e gedvus op zuas fidotoup neloph?

 

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