How do you start a company with 5000$ - any ideas? any opinions?
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I promise to deliver a well written summary. On a serious note, the smaller your capital investment the larger your personal investment must be. Make sure, however, the business you are starting is something you can attract business to and not perform the work for. Sure, in the beginning you will be doing both. But after you get started you should do less implementation and more solicitation. The amount is really irrelevant. Although with good credit 5k can become $30k (small business loan) and if you are in the U.S. there are SBA micro grants and loans available to bring your total to $50k if you really try.
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You do not even need $5000 in that case. :)
ideas ! please!
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... to do that. Jokes apart, you can start a company for $200. Yes that's all it takes to register :) Here is Guy Kawasaki's article on How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09 [^] If you ignore the legal fees and save the development costs by developing yourself, you can come to the $5000 mark. Remember, it takes very less to start a company but takes a lot to run one.
After read further, I think the title of that article needs to be re-written. "How I blew 12K on a yet another worthless, copycat Web 2-Point-Blow site that's of less use than a urinary tract infection in a senile South American sloth." Lead on Mr Kawasaki, lead on. X|
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After read further, I think the title of that article needs to be re-written. "How I blew 12K on a yet another worthless, copycat Web 2-Point-Blow site that's of less use than a urinary tract infection in a senile South American sloth." Lead on Mr Kawasaki, lead on. X|
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Huh? Do you know that he sold Truemors for far, far more than $12,000? :) [edit] Ok! I did not state the fact is that he was able to sell it because he was Guy Kawasaki. Other smart people may not succeed doing the same. [/edit]
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How do you go about starting a company with 5000$ - any ideas? any opinions?
i think i need some sense of humour to sell.can someone share that?
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i think i need some sense of humour to sell.can someone share that?
I can sell you some for about $5000! :)
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Huh? Do you know that he sold Truemors for far, far more than $12,000? :) [edit] Ok! I did not state the fact is that he was able to sell it because he was Guy Kawasaki. Other smart people may not succeed doing the same. [/edit]
Well congrats for him. All that proves is that PT Barnum's observation of "There's a sucker born every minute" is still alive and well.
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I can sell you some for about $5000! :)
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
I thought by now - one of the cpians would have asked "what are you trying to sell?give us a hint": :doh:
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i think i need some sense of humour to sell.can someone share that?
You're asking for someone to provide you with a sense of humour?! Seriously, from what you've said, you just need to market your product to encourage sales. Either market locally, or use the internet (which you said you don't believe in). I'm sure a quick search of google will yield you some results as to global or local marketing companies.
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After read further, I think the title of that article needs to be re-written. "How I blew 12K on a yet another worthless, copycat Web 2-Point-Blow site that's of less use than a urinary tract infection in a senile South American sloth." Lead on Mr Kawasaki, lead on. X|
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During the dotcom days, entrepreneurs had to raise $5 million to try stupid ideas. Now I’ve proven that you can do it for $12,107.09.
Wow, that's a huge savings on trying out stupid ideas!
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You're asking for someone to provide you with a sense of humour?! Seriously, from what you've said, you just need to market your product to encourage sales. Either market locally, or use the internet (which you said you don't believe in). I'm sure a quick search of google will yield you some results as to global or local marketing companies.
outsourcing marketing is too expensive !
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You don't beleive in online advertising, and you are promoting a website :WTF:. You could try putting an advert in the Evening Chronicle[^] with a cut-out and keep coupon for reductions to entice people. I'll be right back with more ideas when I've changed the fuse on my sarcasm-o-meter.
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During the dotcom days, entrepreneurs had to raise $5 million to try stupid ideas. Now I’ve proven that you can do it for $12,107.09.
Wow, that's a huge savings on trying out stupid ideas!
I guess it's a bit like applauding someone for having "skill" after winning the Lottery. Hell I could win a couple of million with by purchasing a lottery ticket today, surely that's a far better return on investment? If it's a stupid idea, and everyone with a shred of common sense knows this, why on earth are you wasting time on it? It's celebrating mediocrity.
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You do not even need $5000 in that case. :)
come on ! i am waiting ! - ask me "what exactly are you selling? give us a hint"
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Great! Send me your credit card details, mother's maiden name, etc, and I'll forward the money to you!
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You don't beleive in online advertising, and you are promoting a website :WTF:. You could try putting an advert in the Evening Chronicle[^] with a cut-out and keep coupon for reductions to entice people. I'll be right back with more ideas when I've changed the fuse on my sarcasm-o-meter.
Dalek Dave: There are many words that some find offensive, Homosexuality, Alcoholism, Religion, Visual Basic, Manchester United, Butter. Pete o'Hanlon: If it wasn't insulting tools, I'd say you were dumber than a bag of spanners.
t's not that. It's not exactly a website. it's a software as a service. Advertising by itself is a random poor process of reaching people - the probability of a hit and conversion stand good only if it's a common service or some airline ticket booking stuff. In my case it's a Software application - hosted as a SaaS.Need some people with patience to understand it.
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I guess it's a bit like applauding someone for having "skill" after winning the Lottery. Hell I could win a couple of million with by purchasing a lottery ticket today, surely that's a far better return on investment? If it's a stupid idea, and everyone with a shred of common sense knows this, why on earth are you wasting time on it? It's celebrating mediocrity.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
If it's a stupid idea, and everyone with a shred of common sense knows this, why on earth are you wasting time on it?
There is no such thing as a stupid idea. There are ideas which succeed and make you money and ideas which do not.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
If it's a stupid idea, and everyone with a shred of common sense knows this, why on earth are you wasting time on it?
There is no such thing as a stupid idea. There are ideas which succeed and make you money and ideas which do not.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
There is no such thing as a stupid idea.
Oh yes there is! We all enjoy The Darwin Awards, they all start with a stupid idea!
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outsourcing marketing is too expensive !
You have to make a decision here. You don't want to use the internet to market, but outsourcing marketing is expensive. You've only got marketing the product to generate sales left to do from what I see, so if you trust in your products success, $5k on marketing is nothing. Is your product an online product, or a physical one? If it's online, why not a google ad campaign and a well developed website? If you post on forums, make sure your website is mentioned in your sig with a link directly to your product (don't go overboard, be subtle) and I would imagine that would drive some sales your way.
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what if everything is done- idea is big. product is ready. registraion is all done. only need to sell.how do u do that with 5000$ ?
Smart-Not-Clever wrote:
what if everything is done- idea is big. product is ready. registraion is all done. only need to sell
[0] Spend some money on marketing. [1] Make a simple, easy to navigate website. [2] Do a lot of SEO. Have the SEO people write about your product in blogs etc - Complete lies will work better. [3] Offer all kinds of businesses (big and small) - Different license types for people with different amounts of money. [4] Put up a trial version to download and test - Make it less buggy - Bugs in trial version will kill your product.
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