Investing, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, etc. Options

[frosty]

Does anyone here invest in anything like that? I've been contemplating investing to generate extra cash. Just wondering.

[frosty]

I've been thinking about mutual funds or bonds. There are a bunch of edward jones invensting places around here where I live. I thought about going in just to check it out but since I don't know all the "lingo" I didn't want to go in and be miss-lead by a sales pitch.

I read in the "dummy" book that investing in a small business is good. Whether it's your own or someone elses. Since I want to start my own biz I figure I know what my risks are and since it would be my biz I would be more motivated to see it take off. (plus, I have controll over where the money goes)

The only thing is that I don't know what would be better. To invest the money for the business in some type of bond or mutual fund to generate some extra cash for startup or go ahead and start the biz with what money I have and let it generate it's own cash.

I'm thinking that it may be better for starting my own business since I already have abunch of the materials needed so my start up won't be that much.

I'm open to suggestions.