Build a boring business

Boring businesses make money

The Bootstrappers
The Bootstrappers
1 min readJul 22, 2020

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Funeral services is a money spinner

Boring businesses are money spinners. Most entrepreneurs avoid non-glamourous businesses due to superstition or stigma or taboos. Garbage truck owners make a lot of money.

Anand Sanwal is founder of C B Insights. He asked on twitter, “What’s the most unsexy, “boring” business you’ve ever seen that makes a crap ton of money?”

Following is a list of unsexy and boring businesses making crap-ton of money.

  1. Waste management
  2. Storage units and self-storage
  3. Legacy software maintenance
  4. Signage builder
  5. Funeral services
  6. Road building and maintenance
  7. Second hand mobile phones
  8. Towing services
  9. Driving schools
  10. Parking

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