Please stay on topic, heatstroke.

Thank you repentance, I'll look at it, even though I've already begun a budget sheet.  I can merge the two.

No, thank you.  I have more potential than being a graphic designer.  That's just not what I want to do.  It's a nice side job.  I used to code websites along with graphic work, don't feel the drive to anymore, though.

Rurry, I will buy some nice wall tapestries and different furniture for the themes.  Perhaps install a laser machine or two for performances and such.  Will add furnishings to the budget as I look further into them.

TheBible, Dank Bank is still operating, is it not?  You're not very patient, I haven't reached my long term goals but I'm on track for them.

Make sure you check your local fire code requirements before getting your heart set on specific decorative items.  There are usually limits to the amount of combustible stuff you can have in a area which is open to the public.  Also check your local EPA and OHS requirements.  Laser light shows need to be set up in a specific way to minimise the chance of vision damage to the audience and the performers.  Your insurance will not cover you if you fail to apply accepted safety standards.

Because it's an overcast Thursday afternoon and I'm bored, and there's a certain appeal in trying to turn a flawed concept into a workable project (I wish to hell logansryche's theatre dream could have been brought to reality because I would have loved to be part of renovating an old theatre but you would have needed to make it a bigger project and develop an entertainment precinct around the theatre to make it viable and that's not the kind of thing you can do from another continent when none of the groundwork has been done).

If nothing else, dank might learn how to properly cost an idea and how to do a feasibility study - which are skills he'll need to acquire if he has larger dreams for the future.

I simply don't want to sit on a computer all day typing code.  I've done enough of that.  I have nothing to lose?  You serious?  This hookah business is the foundation for my life, it's a stepping stone to my dreams.

I think his point was that in the last twelve months you've regarded half a dozen different enterprises as the "foundation for your life" and you've abandoned all of them quickly.  Where are you going to draw the sustained commitment it would take to see this project through from when you haven't seen through any of your other ideas about which you were passionate?  What happens when you've "had enough of" this project?  

It's one thing to abandon a project when it no longer excites you if you're risking your own money.  It's another thing entirely to have to make yourself continue putting 80 hours a week plus into a project you've had enough of because you need to pay back the people who funded your dream.


I only agree with this up to a point.  Many people are good at things they absolutely loathe (myself included), but few people are good at only one thing.  The trick is to find something you're good at and find aspects of it you don't loathe or to think laterally about how your skill-sets can be expanded and applied to something you don't loathe.  At 18, you haven't even begun to develop your skill-sets.  You don't have any idea of all the things you'll be good at or all the things you might love/hate doing because you haven't yet had the opportunity to get out there and try them.

I've taken "for now" jobs which have taken me in totally new directions which I wouldn't have previously considered.  I've taken "dream jobs" which I've absolutely loathed.  Opportunity doesn't knock once, it will fucking bowl you over once you get out of the mentality that the only thing standing between you and staggering success is lack of capital.

If you were serious in the least bit, you'd go out and start getting experience in the service industry.  How would you open a business without even knowing what a workday is?  Without ever professionally communicating with the public?  If you come across in-person like you do in this forum, how could you be trusted to be the public face of a business?  If you've never managed other people, you have not even begun to develop a leadership style.  How do you think you would recruit and retain quality employees when you have absolutely no clue what to look for in an employee and how they might mesh with you?  

You're planning on having this up and running by the end of the year, right?  If someone gave you $20,000 tomorrow to kick-start this, what are you actually ready to go ahead with?  Have you even rung the real estate agent and found out what documentation you'd need to supply in order to put in an application to lease the premises?

When's your meeting with your lawyer, by the way?  And when are you meeting with an accountant?

No, you can't.  You'll be wasting (your investor's) time and money learning the most basic things.  You'd probably waste an hour mopping because you don't know how to do it properly to get it done in 10 minutes. 

Could you tell us in detail what your lawyer said, or even ask him to write something out for us for the potential investors to evaluate?  I think you can do this without violating your paranoia about revealing what state you are located in.