Broken down, but not unfixable (unedited 5am post)

All I can say is that I am recovering from a broken spirit. Broken from Fall quarter here at UC Davis. I've had a hard time motivating myself to do homework at a reasonable time, and I've skipped more class this quarter than I've skipped my entire time at Davis. But I am going to graduate after summer school, and my hope for good grades has sent me into damage control time. What can a guy who didn't do much besides school, and still failed GPA-wise, do to find a job in this economy?
My sights have turned away from school for some time now, I think ever since the summer of '08. My ideas of making money require a discipline I don't have at this moment because of my school work. I am trying to start up a website design business aimed at small businesses. The overhead in terms of money is very small, but the investment in time is the problem. There are several technologies I need to learn since I've built extremely amateur websites in high school. My current Photoshop skills couldn't fake a blurry Bigfoot photo. I've drawn up the first test candidate, my parent's restaurant (PLUG: The Ricebowl Hanford, CA, go eat there). This website and a couple other sites I have,to various degrees, drawn up and planned will form the portfolio of the startup. I can't do this alone though. There have been several attempts at getting a project started by myself and they have failed. I will call upon my roommates to join this endeavor and hope for something good.
This startup idea had me so overjoyed. I want that independent spirit of an entrepreneur, being my own boss, and doing my own thing. Maybe it's the 4 years of monotonous college work that's amplifying my excitement, but I don't care. If this project fails, then it's no big deal, all I'd have to exclaim is, "grad school here I come!"
I don't want to think this will fail, but I'm a realistic guy and I know that there is a better chance of the U.S. annexing Mexico than this startup being successful. But hey, there's a probability for everything, no matter how small. That is why I try. So, during the spring and spring quarter I must, for the sake of trying to start something worthwhile, learn new web tech., learn art, and most importantly rallying people behind me. Even in failure it's all about the follow through.