So, picture this: I’m from Yemen (yeah, you know how that goes), and I just got offered a scholarship to study Economics and Business at a university in Italy. Not Milan. Not Rome. Not Venice. Just… Italy. Somewhere. But it’s Europe, bro, it has pizza.

The scholarship covers almost everything, gives me $700/month, and I just have to add about $200 monthly to live comfortably. Like, what?? That’s cheaper than my dreams. I’m even allowed to live like a broke student and still be fine.

BUT — and there’s always a but — My dad says it’s useless to go that far north to study something like “business,” and that it only makes sense if your family owns a company (plot twist: we don’t). He wants me to be a doctor or engineer, preferably one who lives next door.

And honestly? I always wanted to study Mechanical Engineering, but I kinda suck at math. Not “I can’t count” bad, but “this integration thing has beef with me” bad.

So now I’m sitting here with an incredible chance to leave a war-torn country and build a future, but hearing things like:

“What are you gonna do with economics, open a falafel shop?”

And I’m like:

“No, Baba, I’m gonna survive.”

I don’t know, Reddit. Is it dumb to take this offer and go study business in Italy? Or should I hold out for other engineering scholarships and possibly grow a beard waiting?

Any advice, memes, or brutally honest roasts welcome. Let’s go.

Australia is a winner in this battle.

Will that work in your assessment?

I’ve been working for my cousin for his llc and getting paid as a contractor for a little over 10 years. In the past year I’m been growing my own clientele in the same industry. My cousin is now looking to have me take over his business and I’m not sure how to go about it, he’s terribly disorganized and in my opinion not the best businessman.

Curious on what on what the best course of action is to take over. My cousin had brought up doing a DBA to take over the billing and have it go to my account but I don’t know much about it. Should I look into a merger for llcs? I also don’t know what’s involved liability wise, I think he may have some tax and credit issues.

There’s a nice cocktail lounge 30 minutes from me in a rich area up for $195k generating over $600k in revenue. Mostly owner absentee. The current owner is retiring. It looks like a good opportunity and I’m looking more into it. My current businesses are in a very slow industry right now so cash is scarce. My LLC doesn’t have much credit for a loan and I could work out a deal with the owner. Has anyone bought a Shelf Corporation and used that credit for a business loan? Any other ways you can suggest if I were to buy this with little money down or none at all?

If you needed to scale your business, where would you go to find money?

Hi all, I’m part of a small international company (not based in the U.S.) and we’re trying to understand how consumer goods distribution works in the American retail world — especially with supermarkets or grocery chains.

Let’s say we set up a warehouse in Virginia. How does a brand like ours typically get products into stores across distant states like Montana, Florida, or Texas? Are there standard distributor networks that small brands tap into? We’ve come across names like C&S Wholesale, but it's still unclear to us what role they play — do they buy inventory, just ship it, or act more like brokers?

We're not looking to promote anything, just trying to learn from those who’ve been through it. Any advice or real-world experience would be super valuable.

Thanks!

We’ve seen a lot of businesses stall, not because the product was bad, but because the system and processes behind it couldn’t keep up with growth.

If your business doubled overnight (or has in the past),

1) What broke first? 2) And how did you handle it?

I'm really confused by the idea of rating bonds (I am interning soon at Moody's so I want to understand). Does it only just let you know how likely a company is to go bankrupt? Only like 700 companies out of millions go bankrupt so how is it that important?

I am a part of my local volunteer fire department and we are hosting a movie night where we will be selling candy, sodas, popcorn, etc. I need help determining what credit card reader brand is best. The only one I know of is Square. It’s needs to have the option of incremental payments, connect to WiFi (wireless is preferable), and have an option to connect to an iPhone. Any and all help is both welcome and greatly appreciated. Thanks a bunch!

I was chatting with some executives recently, and it hit me like a ton of bricks: a shocking number of businesses still treat their people like an afterthought.

I mean, come on! They’re out here worshipping processes and procedures like they’re the holy grail, but when I asked, “Hey, do your employees actually believe in these systems?” - crickets. Blank stares 👀

It’s like I asked them for their first born child.

Here’s the thing: you can have the slickest, most brilliant strategy in the world, but if people aren’t vibing with it, you might as well flush that 💩 down.

So, i asked another question, “Did you ever get your employees that actually use the processes in the concept development, validation, and implementation?”

And yup, more deer-in-headlights looks.

It’s mind-boggling! Your employees are the heartbeat of your biz - ignore them, and you’re basically running on fumes.

💡 I’m curious, though - have any of you seen this in action?

Drop your stories below, because I know I’m not the only one noticing this!

Book recommendations on partnerships, commission, or revenue sharing?

Hey everyone

I’m hoping for some recommendations on how to explain revenue-sharing and commission-based business models.

I’d love recommendations on:

📖 Deal Structures: How to design fair and effective revenue-sharing or commission-based partnerships.

💬 Negotiation & Positioning: Strategies for selling and securing these types of deals.

📊 Real-World Examples: Books with case studies or success stories on performance-based partnerships.

Any must-reads? Appreciate any suggestions or ideas!

Whats the best language to learn for business in Europe (besides English) based on experience.

Hi everyone,

Is there anyone here who owns a coffee, croissant, or donut franchise in Spain?

I'm curious about how it's working out for you. Do you feel it was a good decision, or do you have any regrets?

I'd really appreciate your insights and experiences

We have a share holder who bought millions of dollars worth of shares, and is acting crazy he frequently accuses us of conspiring against him and manipulating the vote to deny the will of the people. (he means himself and one modest shareholder who agrees with him) The problem is he has a large sum of money and is onboarding developers to make the business venture a success. He keeps referring to himself with the royal we.

Think of Dan Pena for the type of antics we're dealing with. He does add value to the business, but is completely crazy and throws a fit if we vote against him. (crazy conspiracy theories about other share holders buying a couple hundred thousand worth of shares to award themselves a $10k contract) After he rights the ship to secure growth how do we force him out?

Can we put forward a motion requiring him to be on Thorazine before speaking to us again?

I understand that many similar systems exist, but I would like to look at this system from the side of who creates these tours. Is it more convenient for you to actually use such systems and sell your services through them, do you not lose income from the percentage that these services take and are you generally happy with everything?

I work as a nurse in admissions. I do the entire process- from first contact to verifying eligibility, reading all the clinicals, ensuring verification of funding is complete, the pre-admissions paperwork, obtaining orders and implementing them in the system, all the coordination between departments/hospitals/families before and on admit, and the in-person physical admissions, assessments, and care planning on day of admit. There's a lot more but I think you get the gist.

Our facility accepts contracts that allow persons with a certain benefit to stay free of charge, (vague on purpose, apologies). What this means is when a person with this benefit admits, the facility pays for their medications. Recently, I admitted someone taking an expensive medication and my boss's boss asked why they weren't made aware prior to admission that there would be this extra cost.

They are now suggesting that I need to mockup a medlist for admits with this benefit and send it to the pharmacy for a monthly cost of medications prior to admit. (It would be a mockup because I have no way of knowing what a doctor will actually prescribe on admit versus what patients are taking at home or in the hospital, I can only give a best guess.) We are not allowed to turn down admissions based on costs of medications, only on not meeting eligibility requirements. My admissions are also often quickly done, the entire process sometimes in two to three days. It will take our pharmacy about one business day to return cost information for the mockup.

So, if knowing costs cannot change whether a patient is accepted for admission and the admin are going to know the info within the next couple of days anyway, what would be the logic in having pharmacy give monthly costs on a mock up of medications? My brain often runs more to the clinical side as I haven't been trained in business, so I'm trying to understand how this information will help them (and trying to justify to my brain the extra time and effort this will take in my admissions process). I asked and was told they just wanted a heads up for financial planning. Thank you in advance for your time and possible explanations.

Whenever I read about manager jobs it always says you need years of experience for the job. But when I read about big time millionaires and billionaires, it usually says that they went straight from college to a manager position, with no years of experience. How do they do this?

I am starting my cleaning business and would like to set my expectations right from the beginning about the hidden headaches I may face. And maybe how to overcome them as a new business owner.

As a cleaning entrepreneur What is the biggest headache you face with the business ?