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Freesourcing: How To Start a Business with No Money
So you've got the drive to start a business. You might even have the Big Idea all mapped out. But then you realise that you've got no money to take it to the next stage. Back to the day job? No way. That's where Freesourcing comes in. Believe it or not, you don't need money to start a business. There's an entire industry out there waiting to help you take your idea and make it happen... for free. All you need to know is where to find the help and how to get your hands on it. Freesourcing is the definitive guide to free business start up resources, showing you exactly where to go and who to talk to when you're starting a business on a shoestring. Freesourcers don't just think outside the box - they find out where they can get the box for free too. You'll find information on No cash? No problem. So what are you waiting for?
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240 pages, Paperback
First published January 26, 2010
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June 8, 2019
A guide to starting a business with no money.
There were a few useful tips in here, but some of them were off the mark - my money saving tip is if you want to read this book borrow if from a library (in UK this is free).
Reading time around one hour.
There were a few useful tips in here, but some of them were off the mark - my money saving tip is if you want to read this book borrow if from a library (in UK this is free).
Reading time around one hour.
March 28, 2011
There are many who see the formation of a company as a life-dream. There are many who see it as the next step. Whichever view that you hold, there is always one worry when embarking on a new venture. How much is it going to cost?
In his book, “Freesourcing – how to start a business with no money”, Jonathan Yates attempts to prove that cost can be avoided when starting a business. His book how to provide your startup with all of the assets and resources that it will need at minimal or zero cost.
He admits that there will be times where costs will have to be spent – for instance in providing the official paperwork for company formation, but the basic premise holds, through ideas such as bartering for goods and services, as well as harnessing the power of word-of-mouth to get your company’s message across.
This is not that this book is averse to utilising current technologies to support your business. Applications such as Twitter and Audioboo help you get your website noticed in the journey to those sales which you need to survive.
“Freesourcing” is a little like sustainable living for the internet generation. Are there things in your house, or your friend’s houses that you can beg, borrow or steal to populate a small office. Are there things that you can do, that will elicit a payment in the form of a piece of equipment.
We are all being told that sustainability will become the essence of our lifestyles in the future. This could be the first salvo in an ethos that redirects our lives into a culture where we waste not what we want not, and this is to the author’s credit. There are so many opportunities to obtain help and equipment for free, that we’d be fools not to take advantage of it.
In his book, “Freesourcing – how to start a business with no money”, Jonathan Yates attempts to prove that cost can be avoided when starting a business. His book how to provide your startup with all of the assets and resources that it will need at minimal or zero cost.
He admits that there will be times where costs will have to be spent – for instance in providing the official paperwork for company formation, but the basic premise holds, through ideas such as bartering for goods and services, as well as harnessing the power of word-of-mouth to get your company’s message across.
This is not that this book is averse to utilising current technologies to support your business. Applications such as Twitter and Audioboo help you get your website noticed in the journey to those sales which you need to survive.
“Freesourcing” is a little like sustainable living for the internet generation. Are there things in your house, or your friend’s houses that you can beg, borrow or steal to populate a small office. Are there things that you can do, that will elicit a payment in the form of a piece of equipment.
We are all being told that sustainability will become the essence of our lifestyles in the future. This could be the first salvo in an ethos that redirects our lives into a culture where we waste not what we want not, and this is to the author’s credit. There are so many opportunities to obtain help and equipment for free, that we’d be fools not to take advantage of it.
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