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What is business to me as a student
Today , i was sitting and thinking and wondering why there
is business , management , marketing , sale , buy , broke ,
trade etcc
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Today i’ll try to write what in
my mind and what i wrote for a random student , in a
random school business ;

What is business to me ?
an activity that takes a major part of the time, attention, or effort of a
person or group
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The freedom, the intellectual
stimulation, the drinking, the sheer wealth and diversity and unusual levels of
willingness of members of the opposite sex - it's all yours for the taking
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Or credit cards
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Or overdrafts
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How's a student to enjoy their time at uni with all that on their shoulders? Start
a business, we say - and the great news is, it's easy
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Think about it: what do you have to lose? It's unlikely you'll
own property, have a job to hold down or have a family to support - when will
you get another opportunity to do this? This may be the only time in your life
you have the freedom to make mistakes - so take advantage
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While your friends might be toiling their free time away in the
student union (Smarta did that - believe us, it's no fun), you could be making
the most of your passion or expertise, raking in the ad revenue from your blog,
getting your career as a promoter off to a start or farming out your skills as a
freelance graphic designer, writer or developer
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During a time when graduates are finding harder
and harder to get a job, starting a business will give you the edge over other
candidates, providing you with skills from accountancy to sales to
management and teamwork - and you'll be able to demonstrate to employers
just how self-motivated you are
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You'll need to be able to fit it in with your studies and, while we wish it were
different, it's unlikely bank managers or investors will take your idea seriously
before you graduate
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Just
make sure you're good at marketing: you'll need to leverage your best social
media and flyering skills to get the word out
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Freelancing

From dancing to writing to coding, if you're good at something, you'll be able to
freelance
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Take a look at FreelanceStudents
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uk for opportunities
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While it can be tough, and there's a
lot to learn about earning a living on it, if you get it right, there's no limit to the
amount of money you can make
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If
you hand-make your products, have a look at Etsytoo
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This means you're perfect to do those odd jobs
people don't get around to during the weekend - whether it's cleaning, DIY or
dog walking
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Use your
expertise to teach the next generation
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Online business

Websites are the ultimate student business: they cost very little to start, can be
run from your bedroom and, because you're at university, if you don't have the
skills to design the site, you probably know someone who does
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Smarta has loads of content about the tech sector here
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Come up with your idea

Coming up with a business idea is simple, if you know how to do it
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Now they supply colour-changing umbrellas to the Tate
Modern's museum shop, the New York Museum of Modern Art and the
Kunstmuseum in Basle
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"I was actively looking around for an idea," he says
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Not only does starting-up with a partner reduce the fear-factor, it also gives
you someone to bounce your ideas off, as well as someone who understands
what you're going through
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Mind Candy chief executive Michael Smith started his first business, Firebox, with
a partner when they were studying at Cardiff university
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"Starting a business with someone else is far preferable
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You have to face those huge ups and
downs on your own when you set up your own business
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You don't want to have
to be the one who bears the brunt of the responsibility - keep the workload
equal, and the partnership will flourish
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Write a business plan
The business plan is the most important document you will write: it sets out
exactly what the business will do and how you will run it, including everything
from how you will market the business to how you plan to finance it
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Lucky for you, as a student, you will have access to
hundreds of market research reports via your library, which could otherwise
cost thousands of pounds
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Raise finance
If you're lucky, you'll be able to finance your business from your overdraft and
your student loan, like entrepreneur Hermione Way, who used her final student

loan payment to buy a camera and started her production company,
Newspepper, with that
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Crowdfunding is an alternative way of raising finance: selling shares in the
business for a small amount of money, say £10
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By far the
cheapest way to do this is using the internet: build a nice website, then build
up your business' brand identity using Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
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As a student and therefore probably a frequent user of social media,
there's a good chance you will have a natural advantage over your older, less
tech-savvy competitors
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Flyering or holding a stall in the students' union or a local
market will get your product out there in front of hundreds of potential
customers
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But it shouldn't be
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But I soon realized ever there will always be reason in life to say, “It’s
not the right time
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For students on the fence about whether to take the dive or not, here
are a few reasons your college years are the perfect time to start a
company
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When I got the idea for Headbands of
Hope, I didn't have a business degree or know anything about
manufacturing a product
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When you're on a college campus, professors
are filled with knowledge and experience to help you
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Once you are out of college these experts are known as consultants
and will charge you an arm and leg for advice
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The built-in network and support
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If you've ever
been to a college football game or any kind of large school event,
you'll witness a sea of students uniting behind one thing, which is
pretty amazing
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My first big market was the student body at my university
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Plus, college students are
more likely to use social media for anything they find interesting, so it
builds a great social-media foundation from the start
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In college, you do have responsibilities
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Often as a college student, the only responsibility you have is yourself
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Related: With Entrepreneurship in Vogue, Colleges Beef Up
Offerings (Infographic)
Invest heart, soul and your finances into something that you believe in
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You have a reputation to dispel
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We are lazy, social-media
obsessed, twerking twenty-something who don't know hard work
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When a millennial does something awesome, it's a big
deal
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Use young age to your advantage and
be proud to be a millennial
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I like to think of our college years as life's greatest doover period
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In fact, failing at anything
means you're trying
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If you mess up at something while

you're in college, there's still so much room to bounce back
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When things don't go as planned (which is very frequent) it's called an
experience
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These ideas aren’t just about starting a company in college
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or
six) years and making experiences
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