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There are other resources in the world besides raw money. Find and use what’s available to you. Physical labor around your neighborhood or community can be done without any money. Like dog walking, or car washing if you have the supplies already on hand. Use what you have already or use what you know. I know people who are entrepreneurs and all they posses is a smartphone and that’s enough sometimes.

You cannot. Not because you don’t have money, but because you’re asking this Q. I have a similar problem with my brother, we’d often discuss this or that idea he’d often kill the convo with “they have money/their dad’s money, we don’t”. There is probably a DNA explanation for this, even though my extended family turned out to be quite entrepreneurial, I’d say half of them were at least for decades if not all their lives in corner shops, restaurants, car dealerships. And yeah, we were people “without any money”. Maybe the car dealership was based on capital earned on the food side, but otherwise at no point did anyone in my extended family have “any money”.

So, on the face of it, my brother could not find some inspiration or contradiction amongst a dozen or two of uncles and cousins that became entrepreneurs “without any money”. That’s probably you too.

Get some money first.

If you have absolutely no money, you should start by getting a good job and saving some money.

If you’ve got even a little bit of money, you can start a service business like a landscaper or a window washer.

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Find a business that doesnt take money to invest in. Or find ways to get whatever you need in donations. Really depends.

buy business cards with “Entrepreneur” on it.

You can’t make money without money. That’s just the truth. Even if you were doing something like washing car, you’d have to spend money to get all the supplies unless they agreed to let you use theirs but not everyone would be willingly to let you use their stuff.

Convince investors you know what you’re doing.

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The missing component is not money.

Your missing component is your values, skill sets, and bringing value to the marketplace.

If you have the character values in the skill sets you will identify value that can be brought to the marketplace whether in the form of a service or a product.

Then you sell and buy. If you have money you can buy and sell.

Buying and selling are skill sets that need to be well-developed.

I started my company with very well developed skill sets and values. I identified value to bring to the marketplace. Then I went out and sold, collected the money, manufactured and bought, and then delivered.

During that process I padded everything so that I could build up a small inventory that progressively grew over time. That allowed me to go out and target small customers that would be reoccurring purchases. Overtime I gained more and more individual small customers and at times I had to greatly increase my manufacturing capabilities as well as my inventory on hand so I would find another large customer and I would sell and then buy.

Over the years I’ve switched now to just buying and selling.

I didn’t have a phone, computer, money, or even a car when I started my business. I had six children that quickly grew to 10 when I met my now wife, and I lived in a borrowed 28-ft camper while going through a nasty divorce. I had a job that made about 50 grand a year, but I was paying over 50% of my income before taxes to child support.

I borrowed $150 and bummed a ride from my now wife who is then my girlfriend on my lunch break to go into Dallas and set up a general partnership and open a Chase business checking account with the balance of the money. Went online and got a free EIN number and applied for a tax resale certificate. I used Canva to build flyers for my products utilizing pictures of my competitor’s products. I built my pricing in terms based off of my efforts with identifying and establishing manufacturing facilities overseas.

Then I spent years and years and years and years cold calling tens of thousands of individual shops and dealerships in OEMs around the country and the world and building my customer base. Still to this day I’m doing cold calling. I’m proud to say that we control the majority market share for niche of commercial truck parts in America and a strong double digit percentage of the global market and it’s growing faster and faster.

At some point soon we’re going to hit the cap of total market so last year I diversified into a second niche of products that took capital to get started and is much more competitive globally but also has a multi-billion dollar market cap versus maybe 150 to 200 million dollar market cap in my primary niche of commercial truck parts.

Our primary niche is in the strong eight figures with eight figure net profits. Our secondary niche is in the five-figure range about to break into the six figure range finally.

Once you get moving you have to master the mundane and daily do the tasks that are repetitive yet critical to growth and scaling. Downsize your life and try not to take anything out of your business until you absolutely have to or told to by your CPA.

Find ways to keep your personal overhead sustained while doing all of this.

Realize that only seven or eight percent of Americans are entrepreneurs and only 1% at most of that 8% succeed. It is the hardest path that you can choose to make money in most will fail due to lack of values, skill sets, and the ability to identify a value to bring to the marketplace.

It’s totally worth it though.

I started my business with £100. I built a shopify website and a small amount of stock from china. This year I am on course to make over £300,000 in sales, by myself.

Perseverance and learning to market a sellable, scaleable product.

You can’t. Get a job, save a lot for like 3 years, then start your business.

Do a Solid model business and sell 50% or more of the business, start it with that funding and put yourself a salary.