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Indoor Berry Farming Business

1 points by Xen9 ↗ HN
In Finland, berries during the winter cost a lot.

I want to found an indoor berry farming business that grows berries with hydroponic / stack growing techniques.

The business will grow berries around the year and partner with Uber Eats -type companies to deliver fresh berries to people's (in addition to partnerships with restaurants etc.) Use of efficient farming techniques and lack of middlemen will emables us to potentially drop prices.

The current plan: 1. I get funded. 2. I hire an accountant. 3. I spend 2-3 months on research. 4. Temporary workers and I set up the farm according to my plan. 5. I get my farm working efficiently. 6. Potential permanent employees and I work on superficial things such as marketing, branding etc. and I make ton of money, potentially rising more funds.

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So Hacker News:

1. How does a 19-years-old nobody without a degree get funded? 2. What things here would you as engineers focus on? 3. Do you know anyone who has been successful with a similar business? I am especially interested in new techniques I could bring from abroad.

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bell-cot
1. You don't get funded. Actual investors are looking for could-be-very-profitable business plans, and founders who are especially likely to be able to turn those into reality. It does not sound like you know anything about farming, either in the "reliably make things grow" sense, or in the "costs vs. revenues" sense.
yuppie_scum
Go to an agricultural technology school. Become somebody with a degree. Get a job for The Man and save up a nut. Use that to seed your farm on the side. Build it all yourself, without temporary workers, over a longer course of time. Soft launch at farmers markets, if it’s really profitable, congrats you can quit your day job. Let us know how it goes.
dsab
Dont go to any school, just google for marijuana users forum where non technical guys introduct other non technical guys with "artificial" farming techniques and then try to farm small amount of berries in your basement ;)
Ekaros
I'm not entirely sure there is market... They are seasonal product, and expected quality is pretty high. On other hand during off-season Spanish ones are available.

And I doubt you could get good enough price to profitably sell on either Wolt or Foodora. Which I would partner with. And even then there is need to sort delivery to suitable location in cities.