Help me with my startup idea

Hello everyone. I'm an undergrad interested in the HF industry. I want to create a service (likely an app) that allows people, particularly college students, to put their money in, and invests it for them. There is a company, Titan, that does exactly this, except it is targeted at just everyday, normal people (not students). What kind of regulatory hurdles would I have to pass in order to do this? Would I need to take a series 65 exam?

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Targeted marketing. Can't invest in titan if you don't know what it is. 

 

If students are a good market for this kind of business, Titan will have easily realized this by now (based on demographic analytics from their IG ads) and are currently putting more money into advertising it to them than you ever can. Even if you're investing 100% of S&M spend towards students, and they're only investing 15%, they are eclipsing your student-targeted spend in absolute terms and will have much better recognition than you.

 

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