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Do both.The company you build in college doesn’t matter (generally…). You've got to learn how to make decisions. Focus on accruing experience running a shop with a couple of employees - some kind of service gig, a moving service, driving an Uber, building a website like this: YouProFolio (started and operated by the founder before beginning college...), whatever.Doing both will make your college work significantly more interesting too. Your boring accounting class will actually mean something when you’re figuring out activity-based costing, and the marketing project you tackle might actually make the difference in your cost of customer acquisition.And consider how quickly you can receive feedback on ideas in college, whether that's in a class discussion or hanging out at the Quad. Throw out ideas and see how people react. Where else can you find this?Latch on to the good professors. With the other 99% of students visiting office hours to negotiate grades and due dates, your professors will make time for you when you show a genuine interest in learning. Many professors are sitting on mountains of information and contacts, just waiting for that one student that comes around every 3-4 years to share with them.More so, here’s how you'll accelerate your learning by running a business while in school, and a few more general ideas I wish I would have learned at age 21. (I started with ten ideas, and it keeps growing... :-)1. Learn how to multiply and divide by 7, 12, 30, and orders of 10 quickly, and in front of an audience. When everyone else pulls out their iPhone to do their figuring, you'll have the answer already. Everyone will automatically assume that you’re the smartest person in the room.2. Write. Lots of good answers here on Quora telling you to read. Yes - important. And more so, writing requires you to distill, analyze, and synthesize your perspectives. Once you’ve distilled the academic literature and read a few leading blogs for your area (see #3), your ability to create linkages and generate new ideas will grow scary fast. Check out Justin Mares for a little motivation here.Take a plethora of writing classes - business writing, fiction, poetry. Make writing a core competency so that you can express and influence others when you're not there to explain your ideas in person.3. Google Scholar. Dive into academic research. Books and blog posts are great for short bursts of motivation and ideas. Academic journal articles force you to focus and consider rigorous arguments and counter arguments. Every good research article includes a literature review of previous articles in the field - they’ve already told you want else is important to read in this area. By reading the academic literature in a field, you’ll learn about the evolution of thought for a topic.Book and blog posts are important reading, then after a while, they become trite and distracting. The marginal effectiveness of the next one becomes smaller, or even negative. Pick 3-4 primary blogs to read regularly - i.e. Altucher Confidential, Paul Graham, Brain Pickings, Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed - then use the rest of what you read out there as supplementary.4. Become a great speaker. See Judy Carter's The Message of You.Take public speaking classes and multimedia production classes - any and everything you can do to be a great speaker. Absorb everything you can from your professors and classmates.5. Cheap labor. For a $100, you can probably find a pretty good CS student to code anything you need, or a design student to sketch a prototype, or a marketing student to set up a website.6. Build a following. Figure out YouTube, Twitter, Facebook Ads, podcasts, etc. etc. etc. Figure out how to add value to complete strangers so they give you their contact information. Use your marketing classes and projects as your laboratory.7. Learn to operate by checklists, and on a schedule. Prepare, prepare, prepare for everything. Never ever wing it, so that when you do have to wing it, you’re ready. See: The Checklist Manifesto. When you're balancing classes and work and a social calendar, you'll force yourself to prioritize and compromise.8. Find mentors. At your age, understand that [nearly] every successful person wants you to be successful too. They want you to learn from their mistakes. They admire your tenacity and focus. Heck, just look at how complete strangers are answering this question for you.Check out this presentation by Jason Nazar: The 21 Golden Rules of Entrepreneurship.BTW - Podcasts and video blog interviews are a wonderful reason to sit down with really smart people for 30 minutes. See "Build a Following" above.9. Attend industry conferences for free. Seriously. All you need to do is to speak to any conference organizer, explain that you are a poor college student, and that you'd really like to attend their conference to help with your research. Volunteer a few hours to work at the registration desk or handing out flyers, and these guys will happily allow you to attend for free. Then go talk to the speakers after each session and tell them that you're just there to learn, and if they'd be willing to spare 20-30 minutes to learn from them.Side note: Working the "poor college student" angle works everywhere. Never underestimate it's power.10. Give back. Find a cause that means something to you - maybe it’s cancer or multiple sclerosis or The Special Olympics or the homeless problem or literacy or something else. Find it and spend time solving the problem. This will give you perspective on what life is like on the other side - people who do nothing but battle from day to day, and who consider waking up in the morning success. It will also immerse you in environments with different people...11. Find different people. With the diversity programs of a university, college might be the last time you’ll have immediate access to any demographic, racial, religious, or political view at any moment. Go and see what everyone else is about. It’ll be healthy for your to see these perspectives, and help you develop an appreciation for others’ perspectives.12. Be nice. Always, always, always be nice. Smile. Send thank you cards to people you meet. Call people by their first name. Bring Starbucks gift cards to the assistants and receptionists that help you. Remember that every person you meet has a struggle of their own. See David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech at Kenyon College - “This is Water” :13. Define success for yourself. There is no right or wrong way to define success - only your definition. Most of us struggle with this. I know I do.Never let anyone tell you that your definition of success is wrong. It might mean money and financial wealth. For some, success is having the time to coach their kid’s soccer team. For some, success is the freedom to control your day-to-day (See: The 4-Hour Workweek and Timothy Ferriss). For some, success is measured by the number of lives touched or saved:Then accept that your definition will change over time. Watch this TED Talk by Dan Gilbert: Life: A play in multiple acts. Be honest with your self about success and when your definition might change.14. Accept that it will be hard, no matter what you choose to do. See: The Hard Thing About Hard Things.College is the perfect place to run against the herd. There are constant pressures and opportunities to party and waste time. Yes, course, go to football games. Enjoy homecoming weekend. Take a road trip with your buddies. We all need a few moments to blow off steam and have some fun.When you're running a business and your customer expects you to be somewhere or do something by 6am on Saturday morning, you'll be forced to make a choice and from that you'll see where your priorities lie.Good luck.

Location. Securing the best value spots where you have the highest visibility , then hanging on to that spot year after year.Rental costs upfront versus percentage rents and suffering a rain out or other spell of bad weather. I prefer a base rate plus percentage for events.Having the right amount of help. This is the reason successful vendors often have two or three stands, either at various spots, or side by side. They can share one prep area and when one item is selling heavily they can focus on that with extra help.The new habit of not carrying cash. Processing cards for payment introduces a new partner in your business, one that often costs you more than you pay in rent . accepting these cards increases the complexity of the transaction and it takes longer so despite often selling a card user more extras, it reduces the number of people you can serve and increases the wait time for the ones you do serve. This requires going out in the crowd and taking orders electronically and having an order pick up system in place. This is often very expensive, requiring extra help. Smart phone apps are helping this a lot by allowing the customer to order and pay with a smart phone app and then just pick up their order.I love festivals that accept cash only or require the card users to buy tickets or event tokens instead of using their card . We always accept both cash and the festival currency, but some big festivals don’t like it when we accept cash so I hold several hundred dollars worth of tokens and exchange the customers cash for tokens.Even with an order enter app, we work to serve the other festival vendors. If I am doing meals, I have a runner go around to every vendor early in the day and leave a flyer offering a vendors special and they can call me to order and we will bring it to their space and they pay then. We extend the event staff special offer to security and other staff. My runners know to offer to watch their space while they go to the restroom to get a good tip. You can’t imagine the number of drinks we sell to vendors just to get our runner to give them a bathroom break. Plus they get a choice that isn’t at “ festival prices”. Often it’s just our most popular item offered in a combo at a reduced rate. We usually price it so the drink is at our cost.We generally offer to swap food with some of the other food vendors so our staff can have a chance to try some other food, and the other vendors get a chance to try our food. Some inexperienced vendors refuse to do this but that’s OK, it’s their loss. We have watched other food vendors set ups so they could use the restroom too, and we are glad to do it. It is far better to work together than not.Then there are festivals that are stingy with seating. I carry an extra tent with seating and I try to negotiate free rent for the tent and tables in exchange for allowing customers to bring in food from other vendors. Naturally it’s beside my set up so I’m the biggest beneficiary, and sometimes I set up a stand on both sides of the tent. Other vendors benefit too, my neighbors always say they make more money because we had shade, or shelter in a downpour. One guy across from us was so grateful he made his crew help us load the tables and chairs and take the tent down before even starting to clean up his food truck.I have a few events that I bring the tent, tables and chairs and have a charity clearing and cleaning the tables . We put banners and table tent cards up explaining that volunteers for special olympics are there to clear and clean the tables for you , please consider tipping them for their service today. This often results in a windfall for a local charity and excellent service for my festival goers. We put up a banner on the front that says “ dining tent with seating sponsored by Special Olympics” or whoever is sponsoring it.

For Japan, the only thing that comes to mind is shufoo.net, which doesn't advertise daily deals per se, but publishes online the weekly flyers (or chirashi) for Japanese retail chains like Maruetsu, Olympic, 7-11 and so on. These can include advance warning on special promotions and deals, though I'm not sure the "daily deals" thing has caught on in Japan.