Recently my father started his own business. I work for him and put every dime into a 401k , I am in my early 20s. I was thinking how my father planed his business out for about 6 years. After a couple of months of working for him, and not needing any of the money I make from him with only, at most, 11 hours of work a week for him. I find myself thinking of starting my own business in about 10 years. I want to open a Arcade/Retro Gaming store. Not tickets and prizes, just good ol fashioned gaming. I was thinking of 5 - 8 Arcade Machines, classic retro ones, maybe a newer one or two. A couple of Pinball Machines. 2 Skeeball Machines. A couple of sit down racer arcades, I have my eye on two Mario Kart versions. Then I would like to have perhaps, 5 or 6 TVs set up in small booth like areas with comfortable seating and have older systems like Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Sega Gen. ect. Add a coke machine and a vending machine with offers of lock ins on the weekends and I think I may have something going in a decade or two. So, I know its been a long paragraph, but the questions I am wondering. Are there anything like grants or what not for a business to start? or maybe Loans? Things of that nature. Any info will be appreciated.
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