We need income

1. Start for-profit "cover" business that rents out a place, but only uses a small portion of it. The rest is used for the Make Shop.
   1. Coffee shop
      • Coffee-serving robot
      • Bring/brew your own coffee in the shop.
        • Have standard coffee around for free use in case no one brings anything.
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      • Elaborate Rube Goldberg machine
      • Open 24x7
        • Caters better to our high-wakefulness customers.
   2. CoLo place
      • Rent out bandwidth/serverspace.
        • Initial server hardware
          • processor
          • barebones system w/ psu, case, mobo, heatsink
          • hard drive
          • memory - we're getting two of these to start out with
      • Provide services for other businesses in the area.
        • Offsite backups
        • Data recovery
   3.  ! a Coffee Shop
      • Serves caffeinated beverages other than coffee.
        • Huntsville might have enough coffee shops already.
        • Strages knows a lot about such beverages.
      • Vending machines instead of people.
        • No reason why we can't have a robot serving Jolt!
        • No one has to be there all the time.
          • ie. we don't have to pay someone.
      • Open 24x7
        • Caters better to our high-wakefulness customers.
   4. Run a fab lab
      • Options for fabrication machines
        • Reprap
          • Cheap
          • Can't do certain shapes or models
        • Stereo Lithography
          • Any shape you want
          • May be slightly more expensive
        • Three fab machines would be nice so that we can have multiple parts building at a time
        • Fab machines that are not in use could be utilized by the group, or one could be dedicated to the group and be pulled into use if necessary
        • Homemade CNC machines/mill
   5. Multi-Touch Displays
      • If we can actually get a Multitouch screen working to show off, local businesses would probably pay good money for them.
   6. Photobooth rental
      • Wedding receptions
      • Birthday parties
      • Outdoor events
   7. PartsIsParts
      • Old parts, scavenged from donated or yard-sale-price bought items, disassembled and sorted
      • Gears, motors, casings, brackets, lasers, belts---anything that can be useful to a maker is taken out and organized.
      • JavanCo in Nashville is like this on a larger scale---old hardware bought at auction, catagorized and sold at markup.
      • Could offer a few dollars for old equipment (though no hazardous stuff), then disassemble it and sell the bits, like Wall Street corporations. Would be something for Conrad to do if he's bored. :) Markups could be 10-20 times easy.
      • Scrap metal can be taken periodically to the recycler on Triana.
2. SBA/Grant
   • Links to Grants and other info about SBA loans.