Starting a New Business... The Challenge... and The Reward...

If you were told as a class assignment that a billionaire was taking on your entire class of 23 students as their "pet project" and they were going to have a bank account established for each student of one million dollars each - and that the account could ONLY be used for STARTING an new business with an 18-month clause "CATCH" - being that at the end of that 18-months the business had to be up and running and making a profit and that all the start up funds had to have been replenished - and IF... if you were able to accomplish that - then the business was yours to keep plus $250k of that $1 million dollar start up fund (the rest going back to the provider - for them to use again for another class in the future) - would you take on a challenge like that ??

and if so... what sort of business would you start ??

keeping in mind that the funds for starting the business would be closely monitored by an account over-seer and they would have to be real expenses for the business - and that at anytime if the account over-seer thought you were trying to defraud the program they would pull the plug on your project and you would forfeit your opportunity to be a business owner... and be responsible for repayment of all funds deemed fraudulent or wasteful... would you still want an opportunity like this to START a business ??

is it even possible to put together a business and have it up and running, making a profit quick enough to payback all funds needed to start the business plus have some left over as profit ??

your thoughts and comments are most welcome...
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