How Do You Get Your Business Up and Running Without Breaking the Bank?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Today's question comes from Tyler, who has a question about what to do if you have a great business idea but don't have the necessary funds to get started. How do you validate your business idea before spending money? What are a few strategies to get your business running without having to go into debt? In this episode, I mention Will It Fly?, my book about validating your business idea, which you can get at http://willitflybook.com. I mention crowdfunding options like Kickstarter, which you can find at http://www.kickstarter.com/. And I mention my niche site, Green Exam Academy (http://www.greenexamacademy.com/). Do you have a question about getting your business off the ground without breaking the bank? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0	Ask Pat.
0:09.1	What's up,
0:11.7	And welcome to episode 699 of Ask Pat.
0:16.3	Wow.
0:17.4	Closing in on 700.
0:18.6	How crazy is that.
0:19.7	Thank you so much for joining me today. As always, I'm here to
0:22.3	help you by answering your online business questions five days a week. All right. Now, here's
0:26.0	today's question from Tyler. Hi, Pat. How's it going? Tyler Austin here. First of all, thank you so
0:31.7	much for everything you've done. I've been following you since you started. And, you know, it's just you do great work and I appreciate
0:39.6	that.
0:40.5	My question is, what would you recommend for those out there that are trying to start a business,
0:47.6	they have an idea, but they might have limited resources in order to get that idea into
0:53.2	fruition, rather it's funds, really primarily
0:56.6	funds. I'm just going to stick with that. And, you know, there is business loans out there,
1:01.9	maybe to pay yourself until things get going. But if your idea doesn't work, then you got a bunch of
1:06.6	debt and things like that. So I have read your book, Will It Fly? And, you know, you mentioned some
1:13.1	strategies in there, you know, as far as selling your product before you have it and things like
1:17.5	that. But in order to sell your product, there is only, yeah, you could ask out in groups and
1:24.4	some free resources, but it would be beneficial to, you know, promote,
1:29.7	promote that a little bit. I mean, there's just so many different avenues in that, but,
1:32.9	but really I just want to keep the question simple with if you don't have funds to start a
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