I would find an angel investor forum (not an internet forum mind you) that you could join, and invest in a startup. Preferably something in CleanTech and/or Environment as they are the most growing sectors you could get involved with. The contacts that you will make along the way will also fuel your entrepreneur leverage due to meeting other investors. Watch as other deals are made prior to your investing, and expect to sit on it for 3 to 4 years and take no less than a 8x return.
Or, if you would like to be an active investor - check out some of the startups growing over at CambrianHouse.com, and find one that you believe in that you could also work as a consultant for.
I would also buy established sites earning great monthly revenue and that basically functions on its own without me necessarily have to do any "new" work to keep it going... except an occassional advertising boost. And I would also find more ways to monetize it. I would keep the higher performing ones if I choose, I can flip some and get a higher return than I purchased for and repeat the process. Love2Write
I would say that invest in something that you're good at or you feel comfortable at. My long time goal is to have a business of my own. If I am going to have $50,000 usd. I would first, open a nail salon since my brother and sister do nails. Then, they will work and I will split their profits, and when I got enough money, open a new business, perhaps, another nail salon, who knows. Spend money to make money, you know. Good luck, if you have $50,000USD that you could give them to me, I'll spend them wisely, hihihihi
How much interest are you going to get from $50,000 in the bank? Honestly, here in Canada I can have 2,000 or 3,000 in my account and get something like 0.20 cents interests.
Investing in stock markets are not an easy thing to do, must constantly screening the process; and also you win a lot and lose, lose a lot. So, you really have to take some pre-measurements there.
I would invest in my own original projects, and after making loads of money, then I'll answer your question in more detail.
people say real estate .. but wtf can you really buy with 50k ? ) not even a 2 bedroom flat . Dude , i think you want to invest in the hole "internet " domain . I think you should NOT get into social networking , it is real a hard market , u need more then 50k to make it . Find a few niches , and invest in some , as someone said .. find about 10 .. DO NOT INVEST all ur money in one niche . Hope it helps .
Use at least 10% of your money to find a great programmer to create you a unique niche type of website that could attract a large user database (example, facebook, sitepoint, meebo, etc), then spend the other 70% of the money advertising the site and keep the remaining 20% for any additional costs like hosting or further development.
I would spend 10k developing some sort of social niche network or online community and then spend $40,000 in CPA advertising to have affiliates drive you 30k users. You will then be valued at somewhere between $5-$30 per user and be able to sell for a good amount of dough.
It really depends on what bank and what type account. I know my account is 3.5% a month. With 50k you get $1,750 a month. It is probably not that much to you but still not bad for some. Plus you keep what you don't spend in there and let it compound.
I Make 50 MFA Website, Spend 1k for each.Earn $2K for each after month. ( 50 x $2K ) I Have $100K Now, I Make 100 MFA website, spend 1K for each.after month.. ( 100 x $2K ) Now I Have $200K I Put it bank... .............