Starting a business with No capital money?

No collateral

NO

No problem

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Greg Fisher www.fisherg.blogspot.com gregcfisher@gmail.com

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Perception vs reality
I am going to write a business plan, send it off to the major Venture Capitalists and then take outside nding from the one that gives me the best valuation and the best terms on the deal

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Perception vs reality
I am going to write a business plan, send it off to the major Venture Capitalists and then take outside nding from the one that gives me the best valuation and the best terms on the deal
10 months later

I am going to have to make the most of what I already got and start my business using alternative forms of capital

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Alternative Capital
Energy and Passion

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Create a cause, not a business

Gary Hamel Leading the Revolution

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Alternative Capital
Energy and Passion Knowledge and Skills

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We control the most critical resource of our times: our own brains. Power is transferred from the capital investors to the competence investors.
Jonas Ridderstrale & Kjell Nordstrom Funky Business

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What are you deeply passionate about?

What can you be world class at?

What drives your economic engine?

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Alternative Capital
Energy and Passion Knowledge and Skills Time and Effort

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You need tenacity

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Alternative Capital
Energy and Passion Knowledge and Skills Time and Effort Resilience and Tenacity

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There is a very, very, very ne line between success and failure . it is about being constantly hammered and coming back from the hard times and low moments.
Robbie Brozin Nandos

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Alternative Capital
Energy and Passion Knowledge and Skills Time and Effort Resilience and Tenacity Networks and Connections

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No person can do this alone, not Richard Branson, not Bill Gates, nobody. You need to link up with people who compliment your skills
Robbie Brozin Nandos

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Nothing the slightest bit amazing has ever been done in isolation. Individual competitiveness = what you know x who you know
Jonas Ridderstrale & Kjell Nordstrom Funky Business

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and Passion Knowledge and Skills Time and Effort Resilience and Tenacity Networks and Connections

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Alternative Capital
Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory oors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.
Andrew Carnegie

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BOOTSTRAPPING

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Bootstrapping - As an allusion to lifting

oneself up by one's own bootstraps using a special process to perform a task that one would be unable to do in general
wikipedia.org

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Seven strategies for bootstrapping your business

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1. Self

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Self
Break the golden handcuffs
- Start saving - Live on less Either you want this and you will make the sacrices or you dont want it and you should keep your current job

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Self
Break the golden handcuffs DIY
You will be amazed at just how much YOU can do if you put your mind to it

Paul Simon Young Designers Emporium No capital No collateral No problem

Paul Simon launched his rst YDE Store for less than R20000. He did all the shop tting himself, got his mom to make sandwiches for the launch party and used a toolbox for a cash register in the rst month of trading 10 years later he sold YDE for more than R200 million.

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Self
Break the golden handcuffs DIY Back yourself
Research shows that the things that set entrepreneurs apart from the rest of the population are self condence and optimism

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2. Services

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Services
Work in parallel
Sell your time while you build your product - selling times creates cash ow

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Services
Work in parallel Keep the end in mind

Nkhensani Stoned Cherrie No capital No collateral No problem

Nkhesani rst did designs clothing design on an item by item basis for clients to generate cash ow she now owns an international clothing brand and chain of retail stores. Her end was always to go global but she needed to start somewhere.

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3. Start

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Start
Ship then test

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If he (Microsoft) can do it then you can do it. Get your product or service out there

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Start
Ship then test Get going
You dont need and MBA, a PhD or any other fancy letters behind your name to start a business what you do need to do is GET STARTED

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4. Sell [upfront]

No capital We sold R100,000 No collateral worth of advertising No problem

space to preferred suppliers before we even assembled our rst BUSINESS-IN-A-BOX

See www.biz-box.net

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5. Suppliers

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Suppliers
Extend credit

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Suppliers
Extend credit Partner and barter

James Hong HOT or NOT

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James Hong HOT or NOT

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James Hong set up the dating website www.hotornot.com with nothing. He put a couple of friends pictures on the web and asked others to vote whether they were hot or not. He also allowed others to load pictures of themselves to nd out if they were hot or not. Next thing he knew he was getting hundreds of thousands of page views and sucking up massive amounts of bandwidth. After transitioning onto the U of Berkley server he realized he needed a better solution. He negotiated with rackspace for a free hosting solution in exchange for talking about rackspace (who were going IPO at the time) every time he was interviewed by the press. Hot or not now makes in excess of $10 million per year working no more than a few hours a week. See http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/06/no-planno-capi.html for the full story

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6. Swap and Share

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6. swap and share

Barter
You have got what others want you want what others got so do deal where it makes sense - AOL do it, Google do it, Yahoo do it WHY SHOULDNT YOU DO IT?

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6. swap and share

Barter Co-buy, co-use
Do you really need your own board room, receptionist, server, call center etc???? Go through your list of required assets and identify what you could share with others

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7. Cash

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Cash
Cash ow vs prot

Revenue is vanity... margin is sanity... CASH IS KING

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Cash
Cash ow vs prot Bank balance is your truth

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Cash
Cash ow vs prot Bank balance is your truth Timing

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Cash
Cash ow vs prot Bank balance is your truth Timing Know your numbers

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Seven strategies for bootstrapping your business

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1. Self 2. services 3. Start 4. Sell [UPFRONT] 5. Suppliers 6. Swap and share 7. Cash

Starting a business with no money? No capital No collateral No problem

No capital No collateral No problem

Greg Fisher www.fisherg.blogspot.com gregcfisher@gmail.com