Five businesses we know how to build and run.
Roughly seventy per cent of the delivery work is common to all five. What differs is the licensing, the assets, and who has to be physically present. Each line has its own site carrying the detail; this page is the comparison.
Short-Stay Rentals
Furnished short-let accommodation run as a business. Three routes in: co-hosting other owners’ properties for a share of revenue, holding a long lease with the landlord’s written consent and letting short-term, or owning outright. The long-lease route needs no purchase and is where most owners start.
- CapitalLow to mid
- Owner presenceNone required
- Core assetThe lease and the listing
- Decided byConsent and the local cap
Taxi & Fleet
Three quite different businesses under one heading: renting vehicles weekly to drivers who already hold rideshare approval, holding corporate and contract transport accounts fulfilled through licensed carriers, or running your own branded for-hire operation. They differ enormously in capital and in who carries the demand risk.
- CapitalMid to high
- Owner presenceNone required
- Core assetVehicles and authority
- Decided byInsurance and city authority
Ghost Kitchen
A delivery-only food business operating from a fitted commercial kitchen, selling through the delivery platforms under one or more of your own brands. No dining room means no prime-location rent and no front-of-house payroll, but the kitchen has to be genuinely equipped.
- CapitalMid
- Owner presenceNone required
- Core assetEquipment and platform rank
- Decided byRank and delivery radius
Mini Mart
A small-format neighbourhood store. We recommend the specialist community grocery over the general convenience shop, because it is the only position where you are not selling identical products against operators with far better buying power. A manager on the floor is required during trading hours.
- CapitalMid to high
- Owner presenceManager required
- Core assetLease and sourcing
- Decided bySourcing and footfall
Vending Operations
A route business. You own the machines and, far more importantly, the site agreements that put them in front of people. We negotiate the sites, place and stock the machines, run the cashless settlement and reconcile the takings. We do not sell, distribute or franchise machines.
- CapitalLowest of the five
- Owner presenceNone required
- Core assetThe site agreements
- Decided bySite quality and route density
Four questions that narrow it to one or two.
Most enquiries arrive attached to a venture. It is usually the wrong one, and it takes about ten minutes on a call to find out.
How much capital, honestly?
Not the number you could raise at a push — the number you can commit and still sleep. Vending starts lowest and scales one site at a time; a rental fleet or a fitted store sits at the other end.
Do you want anyone on the floor?
Four of the five need nobody present. A mini mart needs a manager during trading hours and that salary is fixed from month one, busy or empty.
Which country, and why that one?
If the answer is “I have family there” that is a real answer. If it is “I heard it is easy”, read the markets table first — two of the five carry a genuine constraint.
How much risk sits with you?
A rental fleet passes demand risk to the platforms. A branded dispatch operation keeps all of it. Same sector, completely different business.
How fast do you need revenue?
Six to eighteen weeks to trading depending on market and venture. Nothing here produces revenue in month one, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
What happens if it does not work?
Ask this before you commit, not after. We build the downside case alongside the plan and show you what the numbers look like when the assumptions are wrong.
Not sure which of the five fits?
That is the first call. Bring your capital range, the country you have in mind and how hands-off you need it to be, and we will tell you which lines are realistic and which are not.