# Home-Based Businesses

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-based-businesses/480602>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 9, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-based-businesses/480602 "2009-01-09T22:46:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-based-businesses/480602/1 "2009-01-09T22:46:26Z")

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[I am probably going to lose my job soon.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10672609#post10672609)

I know we’ve done this before, and I apologize for re-opening an oft-repeated subject, but does anyone have any suggestions for a home-based business? I’m open to just about anything.

TIA

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**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-based-businesses/480602/2 "2009-01-09T23:33:39Z")

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I propose that you are asking the wrong question. Instead of looking for a business and then seeking a market (usually a dismal failure), may I humbly recommend looking for a market that is being, for whatever reason, inadequately served, and then devising a business that better fills its needs?