Buying a domain and selling it for £1,200 a few months later.
Out of curiosity, what was the domain?
Ask HN: How did you make your first $10,000?
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#22Saved my lunch money from junior to college plus everything from birthdays and celebrations. Every cent was put away.
Worked surprisingly well as a strategy. Recommended, and gives a great start in life.
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#23Consulting pays well (very well) but of course it doesn't scale. I made my first $10k doing that.
What makes you say that? There are plenty of gigantic professional services firms.
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#24Cutting greens and tees and watering fairways.
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#25AllAdvantage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage Back when I was in middle school (on AOL)
Someone actually made money from AllAdvantage? How?! I think I earned $100 or so but was never paid.
About.com paid out $800, a few small companies paid $100, but Northrop Grumman took the prize for paying out $9300
Although not explicitly stated, I think there was a minimum requirement of $100 to get a payout from a given company. Checks were issued from each company individually, so you literally had to make $100 from a given company to get that payout.
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#261. I made money high school doing web sites and tech support for individuals and small businesses around my neighborhood. Most of this work either came through friends & family or people I'd met while working in a student job helping people use the computers at the local library branch.
2. I made more in college by making up a paid job with the student affairs department (one that did need to be done, not make-work), related to my role with the student government, and then doing it. Is that entrepreneurial?
3. After I dropped out of college I worked doing odd jobs / handyman work, and as a contractors apprentice, doing home renovations. Once I learned the ropes, I went out on my own and worked for myself doing that.
4. After I finished college I went back to doing freelance web development, again working for myself.
While I learned things at all of these, any of them could have been my first $10k if none of the previous had happened.
In between, I worked non-entrepreneurially at a series of non-profits / not-for-profits -- a summer camp, my university, a hiking club. I now work for a growth stage company, and it definitely has its advantages in stability and ability to focus on the parts of the job you like. No doubt I will work for myself, and for other non-profits, again in the future.
Re: Ask HN: How did you make your first $10,000?
#27online poker, starting with $50 and slowly building up
Re: Ask HN: How did you make your first $10,000?
#28Answered a tweet asking for help setting up an open source web service, ended up landing monthly $1K fee for "maintenance". Worked a total of four hours in one year for $12K, then the contract ended. I quit my real job soon after
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#29Stock-market investment
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#30Paper route. I went through a couple rear axles on my bicycle because the papers were so heavy. At one point it just snapped right in the middle. I guess I'm dating myself now, you kids don't remember what an actual newspaper looks like.