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I would buy a site on flippa, something with revenue and work intensely in increasing its revenue by 10X. Maybe to gain a monthly income of 7K or 10K, something that could sustain you for a couple of years in order to build your next big project.

You could even do this a couple of times before embarking into larger things.

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THis is much harder than most realize. Much harder.

Yep, agreed, speaking from experience. Most sites on Flippa have had their traffic artificially inflated for the past 6 months using shady SEO practices just so the seller can get a good price. Within a few months Google inevitably slams the hammer on you.

This strikes me as by far the best answer. If OP doesn't know what s/he wants to do, a good place to start is to fix something that already exists but is broken.

Agreed on this being a good idea. Most of the sites listed are unappealing, but there are some good ideas there from time to time.

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