# Poll: If you could start your business, what would it be?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-if-you-could-start-your-business-what-would-it-be/150039>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 21, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-if-you-could-start-your-business-what-would-it-be/150039 "2003-01-21T19:50:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-if-you-could-start-your-business-what-would-it-be/150039/61 "2003-01-24T21:48:12Z")

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A 24 hour day care center that could take handicapped children.  
A 24 hour laundromat.  
A cleaning service that only uses natural cleaners.

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-if-you-could-start-your-business-what-would-it-be/150039/62 "2003-01-25T07:53:17Z")

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1. Exclusive day care center for senior citizens AND children.  
I think there are a lot of senior citizens who like being around children and could teach them a lot, and I think a lot of children could benefit from a “grandparent’s” attention.  
I say exclusive as you would obviously have to pick seniors who like children, and children who could benefit from the surroundings.

2. As a non-profit venture, I would like to offer a chain of storefront shops for the homeless where they could go in, take a bath or shower, get a haircut, get new donated clothes, get job placement applications and a voucher for a local restaurant.

3. To make money: A combination bar/movie theater with cordless headsets so you can hang out and watch the film, or take off the headsets and talk with friends. It would have comfortable seats and a huge, drive-in theater size screen on one wall.

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**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-if-you-could-start-your-business-what-would-it-be/150039/63 "2003-01-25T18:56:37Z")

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I want to raise and sell medicinal leeches.

What?

StG

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**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-if-you-could-start-your-business-what-would-it-be/150039/64 "2003-01-25T20:20:21Z")

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I’ve already started up my own business but because I’m not rich I’ve had to generate the start-up costs myself and build up a clientelle.

That’s actually the best part… seeing all that hard work and sweat pay off as time goes by.

Mind you, if I had unlimited funds and people knocking down my door…

I would open a brick and mortar shop where I could continue to sell pens but would also add antique books and other fine writing supplies such as stationary and hand bound journals. I’d like to add a coffee bar so people could enjoy a coffee or tea as they lingered on my comfortable chairs and couches to read an write to their hearts content.

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