5 businesses I’d start today if I lost it all and had $25K to work with. ㅤ 1. Home service with recurring contracts: Pest control, exterior cleaning, HVAC service agreements. Recurring revenue is the whole game. Boring on paper but it compounds hard. ㅤ 2. A niche construction sub-trade in a growth market - Everyone’s fighting over general contracting. The real money is in the sub-trades feeding the boom. Data center corridors, semiconductor plants, warehouse builds. Every one of them needs roofers, site prep crews, low-voltage guys. Follow the capital, not the trend. ㅤ 3. Online marketing for local service businesses. - Every trade needs it. Almost none have it. $3-5K a month per client and the pitch writes itself once you have one case study to point at. ㅤ 4. Real estate wholesaling - No inventory, no repairs, no capital tied up in properties. Pure deal flow. The barrier to entry is picking up the phone, which is why 95% of people never make it past month three. ㅤ 5. A service busines...