How I started my business with ZERO investment

I’m trying to write a piece on how I started my chain of business with ZERO investments, but something is stopping me. It’s like the Writer’s Block has tied the words in a knot inside my belly and I need a whack to release them. The whack is not coming from inside….


Nevertheless, what I was going to say is that after reaching a certain age and entity in my life, I realized that I wasn’t finding any ONE single platform to put into effect whatever experience, skill sets and talents that I had acquired/polished over my lifetime in two countries. I wasn’t getting the appreciation or the value of my abilities.


….. So? Was I going to fade into the twilight yielding place to the new? Was I going to become complacent about my meaty lifestyle and retire?


… No! I wan’t going to give up on exploring new creative ideas and ventures, even if I have to do it all alone.


I wasn’t going to fade away into the twilight without sharing all that with the next generation, and there wasn’t any particular platform where I could bring it all on.


So I decided to use the internet in all its all strength. I decided to publish my ideas on several online platforms: Writing, editing, designing, creating newspapers, self-publishing, teaching editing, cooking and promoting Bengali cuisine, dancing and promoting Kathak internationally, promoting culture tours in India worldwide and writing my own books.


… After a while, I found websites too are passe. They only take up a lot of bandwidth and are costing me money. And no one is going into it. Free ad space is where people are. So I took advantage of free pages on social media and free ad sites to promote my ideas. They are also ‘businesses’ because unless people pay for your ideas they do not take them seriously.


So in a way, I had a chain of business which required zero investment.

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