Is it even possible to make genuine and successful businesses any more, or are the markets just too fast now? Let me break it down and tell me where I'm wrong:>Massive established multinationalsGrandfathered in, maintain their effective monopolies through huge lobbying efforts, competition impossible.>Illegal operationsHuge obvious downsides if it goes wrong, often dangerous personally.>New business (product)A week of success before Chinese print farms make knock-off copies and sell them on alibaba for pennies, no recourse to copyright/trademark because CCP doesn't care.>New business (service)Again, a week of success before some Indian oligarch sets up six different call centres to get an army of jeets to do the same thing manually for pennies and/or pretend to be your company and spam scam calls.Like what the fuck are people supposed to *do* exactly?(This isn't even accounting for regional issues like we have here in the UK e.g. insane energy costs, enormous taxes, high inflation, everything way too expensive, government literally anti-free market etc.)
>>59661656Sure, it's not even all that difficult. Come up with a good idea, make product, make a website, and sell sell sell. It's actually never been easi-->here in the UKoh, sorry, nevermind. You're fucked.
>>59661656But seriously, though:>A week of success before Chinese print farms make knock-off copies and sell them on alibaba for pennies, no recourse to copyright/trademark because CCP doesn't care.It takes longer than that for the scammers to ramp up, and if you keep your primary sales channel as direct-from-the-manufacturer then you can reasonably easily prevent counterfeits. Just tell customers who bought off Temu that they get what they deserve.There are constant market opportunities to do things that other companies either aren't doing or aren't doing well. I'm in the middle of getting ready to offer a product that the existing competition does a suck-ass job at. Mine ends up being much cheaper if the user wants to cheap out, or the user can go the expensive route and it will only be about 20% more than the competition -- and either way, mine is either better or MUCH better, respectively.The downside is that I am spending a lot of time making design choices based on how expandable I want this to be. I also have to figure out whether I want to burn $100,000 in startup costs or try to cheap out up front until I see if my market develops as I expect it to.
