Get an investment job to fund my startup while still in college?
Hello,
I've been following the markets since I was not even a teenager. I can construct a passive portfolio as good as anyone. Type in paper portfolio on city data to see.
I'm quite knowledgeable of stocks, commodities, alternative investments. However, I've always imagined investing only my own money, not OPM. My real passion is however business. I find investing to be a bit boring, as it produces nothing but capital gains or losses. With business, you can create something wonderful. Still, I greatly enjoy investing I just don't want to do it full time.
That said, I need web programmers to contribute sweat equity for my tech start-up, OR a fair bit of cash to fund it. I wonder how realistic consulting for hedge-funds is. I have a number of lucrative investment ideas I will never be able to fully capitalize on myself at this juncture. Everything from liquid to alternative illiquid strategies. Since I'm unknown I doubt the HF industry will take me seriously however.
I'm in my early twenties and haven't made a lot investing yet. I've been writing book on investing, and considered starting an investment newsletter. However, the problem is I'm also in college. The school I'm attending now is in the UNC system, its a good school but not really well known. I will also be going overseas to study in France at a b-school this summer.
Overall, I feel pretty knowledge rich, cash poor. I really need to make 100K or so working a job for my start-up, OR find 1, 2 or 3 talented web programmers (ASP.NET, LAMP, RUBY, doesn't much matter) near Charlotte, NC who can put in sweat equity. If you were in my position and needed to earn 100k or find the programmers, what would you do? Keep in mind that programmers are seriously hard to find, I've been looking for over a year now.
Get out of Charlotte and head to SF, Austin or New York. duh.
Consulting for hedge funds is not realistic, you know that.
As far as being knowledge rich/cash poor....you need to chill out with that. Hearing that from a college student is pretty obnoxious.
Can't you find some programmers in college with you and split the equity in some way instead of cash?
As far as being knowledge rich/cash poor....you need to chill out with that. Hearing that from a college student is pretty obnoxious.
+1 dat
This is the key point "I'm in my early twenties and haven't made a lot investing yet"
How can you sell anything if it hasn't even worked for you?
You should try getting a job consulting for these guys: http://www.luminainvestments.com/index.html
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