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Food trucks may need to scale because you have to buy additional food, maybe hire a few additional people. No lemonade stand, unless you already have the lemon
by studius 6y ago
Food trucks may need to scale because you have to buy additional food, maybe hire a few additional people.
No lemonade stand, unless you already have the lemons.
You'd think blogging on a free platform might fit the bill. But, making money depends on readers, which would need to scale to make ads worthwhile, so scratch that- it's scale-dependent. Don't do that.
Maybe if your family has a lot of money, you could pay someone to write your app for you. No- scratch that- it's dependent on the number of people paying for it, and you need to buy ads to reach them, so it must scale.
You could be an investor! Just hold out a carrot and watch people work themselves to death while having a small chance at success. Even if only 1 in 10 you end up actually giving money to for their work are successful, you come out on top. Wait, it turns out 1 in 10 isn't guaranteed. That won't scale, then.
Instead of investing yourself, have someone else invest it for you. Nevermind, no one would do that, because in order for it to be worth it for someone to invest for you without taking too much off the top for overhead, they'd have to scale.
Back to selling.. you could sell your existing possessions and evengelize, going from place to place to get food and lodging.
Sounds a lot like being a priest.
- cameron_b 6y agoA Food Truck can be a good study of scale. Every sale should make some money and the scale can determined by fixed costs divided by the net profits per sale - if your equipment lease costs $30 per day, and you sell a burger for a net $1, you must sell 30 burgers per day. If you maximize profit margins, vertically integrate as much as possible ( hello family labor ) and really dig in to your customer base to find a great fit that they are willing to pay good margins for, then you don't have to sell a million burgers from a hundred trucks to take a weekend off.
- _Microft 6y agoThe statement was about "not requiring scale" to be viable - not about scaling itself. Scaling is fine - "having to scale" before the money runs out is not.