Hey guys,
So recently I have developed an interest in wanting to create my own Bodybuilding supplement as I love working out and love entrepreneurship. Something i have an interest in since childhood. What kind of profession would allow me to create my own supplement one day?
I am currently Majoring in BioChemistry.
There are a lot of paths here.
If you want to be involved in the engineering of a food supplement you would be looking at a major in either food science or food chemistry. A traditional chemitry degree with the right internship can also break you into the field. These are the people who deal with the science behind creating edible foods and suplements that can survive a mass manufacturing process, packaging, shiping, and storage while stil retaining a flavor. This is also closely tied to the perfume industry. This is clearly the path you would go for if you wanted to design supplements for a large company, which honestly isn't a bad career except for the fact that it's largely based in New Jersy. There are very few times that Chemists get to create things that are beautiful, rather than merely useful.
Then, of course, there are the degrees that could help educate you on the science behind supplements (nutrition, medicine, biochem) or the science and art of business (marketing, business, accounting, microeconomics). It actually sounds like what you want to do is more about creating a business than creating a product.
Ultimately, though, when you're asking how to start a home business there's no clear model or training plan. You want to innovate and create, no one teaches you how to do that, at least, not in the way you teach someone medicine ('do this exactly how I do it'). If all you want to do is market a variation on the traditional protein bar you don't actually need anything except a business plan and the support of some venture capital. I had a friend start a couple of companies that way long before he graduated college. The design and packaging of your product is something that you hire (or partner with) food scientists for, or you can just start experiminting with what you bring home from the grocery store in your kitchen and see what tastes good (that's how Cliff bars started). Your real job is to convince the venture capitalists why your marketing/sales/production strategy is better than what already exists, and then to successfully put that plan into action. Heck, you don't even really need investors, you could start selling small amounts of home made products locally by subscription and then expand your business over time with the profits That doesn't actually require a degree.
I would recommend an accounting class, though. Anyone starting a business should know how to figure out exactly what is coming in and what is going out.
Funny you posted him. He died a couple days ago in a Thailand sauna at 22 years old. Found unresponsive and unable to be resuscitated. Probably too much HGH and cocaine.
