/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>823708
Wasted $140,000 dollars. You deserve no help or anything. You already said it you are a fucking idiot. I'm 18 years old and positive I could have put the money to better use.

>>823708

>Get a real job.

>Get a real degree.

>>823708
Suck some dicks

>>823717
>18
>Brain hasn't even deveoloped completely and thinks he wouldn't spend money on other BS
Kek.


>>823719
I'm thinking about something in the Mathematics field. I'm thinking about applying for a loan.

>>823722
No. They taste weird.

ITT: Schadenfreude

>>823741
As someone who tried to get into the entertainment industry, this pleases me.

Sorry, but you just squandered your one-in-a-lifetime windfall plus you have no STEM degree. Prepare to be a minimum wage drone for the rest of your life.

How in the everloving fuck have you only made $600 dollery-doos?

What has your company even released so far?

Anything? If so, why have these ventures been failures?

It could be salvagable if you already have assests due to that $140,000. I'm not some kind of business genius, but I am in a senior postion at my company and we do have a media branch. Just curious to see if your failures reflect ours and if I can offer some advice.

>>823753
Hah. As if. I'm alredy working on getting into another uni to get into STEM. This isn't over. The fact that you would give up in my position speaks volumes.

>>823770
We comissioned comics, animation, and games. The reason we failed is due to a lack of finished products, which I marketed poorly.

I tried marketing via social media to avoid using marketing firms to save money. But in the end it was a stupid decision. While our products and IP's were mostly praised by the few followers we garnered, the amount of reach we had was very low. Our Facebook page has nearly 10,000 likes on it, but barely any of them engage with our posts, which says alot. We could entice people to look at us for a little, but then they'd lose interest. This is all on me and I don't blame anyone else for this.

In the end, it was a stupid idea to try and "follow my dreams", which is nye-impossible. Funny thing is I don't really regret it.

My grandmother forced me into community college in Andover, Kansas, where I'd be trained to be a doctor. You know who are the most common people to see doctors in Kansas? The morbildy obese.

I don't care how much you pay me. If I had a life of shoving my fingers up some obese dude and looking down their throats, I'd be miserable.

Right now, I'm not really miserable, although I am annoyed. I'm just trying to get into some STEM field that I don't hate.

>>823792

It's not stupid, there has never been an easier time to get into that field.

You used the word "comissioned" there. How hands on were you with the project? As a small company, you're obviously going to need to be more involved than an established producer due to the lack of people and due to the fact your guys are PROBABLY going to be inexperienced and less driven than the higher wage creators from the major firms.

That seems like the organisation was very unfocused for a new company. Comics, animation and games are all very different areas, even though they share a market. How could you even possibly afford the assests/staff for all 3?

Did you outsource this to independant studios to produce you content?

>>823810
We produced our own content, which again garnered positive responses from those who actually read our stuff.
We were working on a game, and an animation while we were publishing our comics on various boards and websites (Including /co/), but we never really got alot of support when it came to crowdfunding or engagement (while it be through commenting, likes, etc).

I could tell people were looking at our stuff, I just couldnt prompt anyone to actually engage with us. Which is again, not the consumers fault, but my fault for being shitty at marketing.

>>823725
>>Brain hasn't even deveoloped completely and thinks he wouldn't spend money on other BS

>thinks he's in a fucking position to berate others

so you wanna work in stem, or what do you actually want?

>>823814

If I'm honest, it sounds like you've bitten off more than you can chew. You were 20 years old and in charge of a new company and tried to do videogames, comics and animation all at once, along with micromanaging the entire marketing side of things alone, with no possible prior experience in ANY of the above.

And that is aside from staff management. Your people are usually your biggest ongoing expense, and then your base of operations.

How many staff do you have, where are you working from and what does the company have in terms of assets left?

>>823815

Honestly, I just want to work on my studio. It's what I like to work at, but as stated it's not something I can do for money. Maybe as a side-thing once I'm financially stable.

At the moment I just want to make enough money to move back to Canada where I can eventually buy a house, and have money on the side to keep making content.

>>823822
I'm aware. It was kind of a "do or die" scenario. After my grandmother's death, I got really bummed out and pretty much hated life. I especially hated the career choices she made for me, which again, I blame on myself for not being stern. So I just charged into what I thought would eventually be a financial investment.

Which again, I don't really regret, since I'm happier than I was back in Kansas. I'd be miserable if I would of stayed there, as a doctor, operating on the morbidly obese.

We had five people on board.

Myself, as the founder, producer, writer, and in marketing.
Then there three artists, two of which didin't charge me as they're close friends who made concept art and story boards for our animations.

Then there was the comic artist, who basically made everything, from the sketching, to the inking, to the coloring.

>>823708
140k

are you serious?

you know how happy I would be with half of that?

>>823883
What would you spend it on?

>>823883
>Someone has money
>They lose money

>U no how hapi havin som of dat moni wud hav mayd me?

>>823708

Become a wage slave, you've blown your one and only chance.

>>823899
No. I'm too ambitious. How will I pay for my escorts if I'm a wage slave?

>>823904
sorry brah, no more escorts for you this lifetime

> vancouverfag reporting

What are the escorts like in Vancouver?

>>824118
Apparently very expensive...
If you assume an escort is $100/h, and you rent one 7 hours a day 5 days a week, you'd still be fucking 4 years later...
I think I can see why his company failed.

>>823708
>I've been living on Yogurt and protein shakes for the past few months.
yea this is bait

>>824154

next he'll say hes from /fit/

>>824154
Not bait faggot. Shit's cheap and won't make my brain go to shit. And no I'm not from /fit/, I wish I was.

>>824118
http://www.theswedishtouch.com/ this shit's legal in Canada.

>>823708
Well the good thing is you realized your mistake, and I'm sure you did gain some idea of how life actually works, even though $140,000 was a steep pricetag.

You gotta regroup man. Uber is good, but sounds like you can take a 2nd free-lance job or do something on fiverr with the skills you learned from business + diploma.

Step 1: Donate any money you have left to charity

Step 2: Kill yourself

>>823717

Bingo.

>>823708

How in fuck did you blow all that money....

I could see going crazy for a little while and blowing $20k or $30k, but $140k?

Dude, you gotta learn some life lessons the hard way.

>>823708

You're fucked. You flushed your break down the toilet. Just get a job.

damn OP, sounds like you have a really low IQ and subsequently, no capacity to understand your limitations, consequences of your actions, and any sense of foresight. Sorry but there's nothing you can do to recover.

>>823708
Like literally everyone else has said, go get a fucking job.

>escorts
>travel

you pissed your money away. All you can do is learn from your idiocy.

Go learn some basic grammar skills, while you're at it.

>>823708
>dream home in Vancouver

会不会说普通话吗?

>>824522
>Implying 他們的華裔人講普通話.

>>823708
I hate you with every fiber of my being. You fucked up and I hope it stings.

HOLY FUCK HOW DOES SOMEBODY WASTE $140,000 YOU ARE LITERALLY RETARDED

>SPENDS $140,000
>HAS LITERALLY NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT

If I was you I would have:

1. Brought a cheap plot of land somewhere for less than $30,000.
2. Put a cheap prefabricated house on that plot of land for less than $30,000.
3. Buy a nice, second hand car for less than $5000
4. Put the rest into a high-interest savings account and live off the interest while living frugally.

YOU FUCKED UP YOUR ONLY CHANCE

>>823708

Washington here. I make fairly good money as a pimp, and I am willing to take you on as a protege as long as youre not hopelessly ugly and weak. The #1 Rule of pimping is to be so attractive to women that you can manipulate them. Tacoma.

> $140,000

You could have had a comfortable annul income of $9500 or retired with $2M more in savings.

That was one costly lesson but I hope you know understand why as a poorfag you cannot afford all that much risk.

>>823708
Hey, dw lots of people fail, that's just part of life. You also said you were happy doing it. Also just use that same work ethic into another field and you will be just fine. Btw dw about the community they are bunch of kids who have no empathy for anybody but themselves. This whole idea that they wouldn't spend the money baffles me, considering 90% of the population of America is in debt.

Keep trying bro you will make it eventually, probably not in entertainment but in another venture if you put your mind and soul into it!
(Coming from a guy who constantly was told what to do by his crazy mom)

>>823708
all i can say is "lol"

You spent our money on escorts.. I don't feel sorry for you.. That's not how that works, first you get the money then the hoes will come to you. If someone gave me $140,000 I would be a millionaire in no time.

>>823708
hahaha - you are truly pathetic

You should have used that money to make amateur porn...

>>823831
I like how everyone in this thread treats your "business" like it was a business. It's not a business. It's a hobby you tried to make money out of. Clearly you are just a neckbeard youtuber nerd deviantart type, catering to some niche. Delusional and sad. I'm glad your money is out of your hands.

>>823904
You're too ambitious? You can't be serious. If you really wasted 140k. You don't know the first thing about ambition.

>>823904
WITH THE FUCKING PAYCHECK YOU WILL BE RECEIVING YOU STUPID CUCKHOLD.

>>823904
"Ambitious"
More like entitled dip-shit who is finally going to receive a massive dose of reality once he crashes his car at his crappy Uber job and literally has no money to pay for his medical costs.
KEK

>>825332
Can you tell me what Uber is? is it a real thing? Ive never heard of them before and im American.

>getting cuckolded by his own mental retardation

>>823893
investments, 120k of that straight into investments

>>825334
driver service. Private taxis

>>825352
sounds like a great way to privately get robbed.Maybe not OP since he aint got shit now anyways.

i think op is lying so i wont help , if youre not lying op post proof and i will help you make lots money