Top Ideas to Start a Business While in College
Admitted to any stream of higher education and having a zest for starting something while continuing education? Not to worry, there are plenty of options to choose from and start a business. Passionate students with entrepreneurial character realms are also needed by the industry at the moment. They understand their generation better and also can read the preceding ones perfectly. Having this trait, a student can deliver better solutions and services by running any particular business.
Whether they initiate a tech-savvy startup or a non-technology product/service based venture, in terms of revenue generation, customer satisfaction and business progress, they are supposed to be leading the way. College startups like 3dim (3D gesture sensor interaction), A Small Orange (web hosting company), EnvoyNow (food delivery service provider for college students) and Athlete Trax (all in one service for athletes) have seen enormous success due to the stupendous efforts of the founders. Even Dell was founded by Michael Dell under the name PC’s limited when he was only 19 years of age studying in the University of Texas, Austin.
If you wish to write your name in the history pages have a go. Some of the areas where you can focus on building your venture are mentioned below.
- Fitness Gadget Startup – Already fitness trends are at the peak point. There are devices suggesting humans for better day to day activities to gain optimum fitness. Devices like fitness tracker detect a person’s everyday calorie consumption, distance covered by walking/running and heartbeats. It measures a person’s sleep cycles. In 2020 there will be new technology that will help in optimizing sleep. It might be capable of measuring the blood oxygen level and brain functioning and helping people suffering from sleep apnea. So, if you want to make serious contributions to the society through your technology startup, you can research more on this topic and extend the lines of your startup idea in college.
- Gaming Startup – While playing a computer or a mobile game, ever wondered how a game’s characters are placed and the stories are made? If so, then you can start reading on gaming technology and development. It is a fascinating sector for game enthusiasts. You may not be someone having core technical knowledge, but you can learn the technology used for making games. Many online channels are fulfilling the education requirements for this. In parallel, start developing your game and make it big.
- Fitness Center – Did you complete any course on health and fitness before entering the college? If you have, then with a little investment you establish a fitness center and motivate others on becoming fit and following a healthy lifestyle. This is a noble deed and with so much competition in the fitness regime, you can also start offering sports training. Sign up specialist personnel for the purpose and train the upcoming generation on conventional and unconventional sports.
- Blogging – If you have a flair for writing you can start an online blog channel. There are platforms that allow you to buy a domain and design the website. You can decide what you want to deliver through it. The blog can contain news on sports, politics, technology or movie reviews. It can also contain lessons on music & dance, literature, science, mathematics, arts or any other. Gather your talented friends for making your blog filled with any one of these. Learn about the marketing and advertising side of blogging and start earning.
- Design Startup – Designing professionals are the ones with skills in drawing, sketching and displaying something new every time they make an artwork. As a designer, you can start offering services like logo designing, infographic designing or graphic designing. All you need is mastery over Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Lucidpress, Adobe Photoshop, Canva, Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Publisher. Other services you can offer are designing of flyers, invitations, brochures and postcards.
Why wait to start after graduation while you can learn and earn at the same time.