Is it possible to create a startup without a budget in our time?

Question

Startups

Is it possible to create a startup without a budget? We all know about Facebook and Hulett Packard, but have you had an example like this? Did you know (know) the person who created his project with minimal investment.

Answer 1

create - real, develop - no.

Answer 2

And you try and find out :) In general, it is not the best idea to ask such things from the crowd, most of whose representatives work for an uncle.

Answer 3

Not mine.

If there is no start-up capital for a business, what should I do?
1. Waste your time.
2. Earn an airbag for a year.
3. Say goodbye to the dream of business.
I can't earn an airbag, what should I do?
Lie in a coffin, close the lid from the inside, lie until you realize that you are the last complete loser, then you can die right here so as not to create trouble for other people.
I can’t waste time for free, I have a wife, children, grandparents, what should I do?
1. Drive your wife to work and live for a year on her money or the money of her parents.
2. Do nothing, work for a salary and say goodbye to the dream of a business, come to terms with the idea that YOU ARE NOT FATE!
Can find investors, partners with money?
Ask yourself the question: who will give money at the disposal of such a loser who cannot save up his own money at all? That's right, nobody.
Further questions are meaningless. everything revolves around a fork or time or money. If you don't have either, then go to a regular job, work 40 years until retirement. Then a small pension will immediately create a bunch of things for you: you will have to go around all the pharmacies and shops to find where food and medicine are cheaper, fuck with the same people like you on a bench near the entrance to collect primary information from which store to start and at the same time scold all the rich on which you have worked all your life.

Answer 4

all projects at the beginning were created without money, practically
take it and do it

Answer 5

Yes. Really.
1. Come up with an idea
2. Implement a working prototype
3. Recruit users
4. Introduce paid functionality.
Here are the funds for further development.

Answer 6

It is possible / impossible to create without a budget, it just depends on:
1) An idea, for example, an online smoothie constructor and bionic prostheses based on artificial materials that are better and more powerful than natural "spare parts" are different things
2) Prototype: you can create a website in a couple of months, on your own, but with prostheses, how will you create a prototype? Humanity has not yet reached such technologies
3) Distribution: It is easy for online startups, I went to the site and that's it, but what about those who create material things? Delivery, documents...
4) Monetization: You can place ads on the site, restrict access to a subscription, etc., but with material things there is only one thing, SALE, although advertising on body parts is quite interesting...
5) Risks: I created a website, it didn’t take off (sad trouble), but what if you created a huge project, as I remember, in the 80-90s you created a satellite telephony network, launched dozens of satellites into space, but the company ....... .all polymers.
6) Costs for the client in addition to the purchase, etc., I heard from one person that no matter what problem a startup solves, the client still needs to "torment" with a startup, for a website, go in, choose, etc., and what to do with dentures? It is unlikely that everyone wants to amputate their legs
7) The need that the project solves: for example, Instagram, at first I thought how the service for uploading photos became so popular, but then I noticed that with the advent of such projects, people began to think that someone needs them

Answer 7

Cerebro.rf - created by one person, the project took off immediately, because it is useful, earns millions of rubles a month.
To create a startup without a budget, you need to:
- Find a useful idea with a large market
- Implemented on your own (or by 2-3 associates who are ready to work without pay)
- Use free promotion methods. There are hundreds of them .

Answer 8

Well, Facebook was sponsored at a fairly early stage. I suspect that HP also did not start from scratch.
Yes, of course it's possible.
If the project is appropriate.
If you aim at a super-duper mega-site with millions of visitors, but at the same time you don’t know how to make them so that they don’t eat up server resources and your money, of course, you need to do something else.
Startup is a buzzword.
Entrepreneurs do this every day. And millions of them.
Yes, I personally know many entrepreneurs.

Answer 9

The budget is not the main thing, much more important than communication. Local project bringing no more than ~100K$ per month - yes. Everything that is larger, both in terms of money and the coverage of the social sphere, is controlled by people from above. Either you will be able to negotiate with them (like a peekaboo) and fit into their plans and interests, or they will kick you out of the country like Durov. And in other countries, everything is about the same.

Answer 10

Second Facebook - no. It was financed from the very beginning (hosting there is free, etc.).
In general, yes - just take it and do it. This is what people do every day. Some are even successful.

Answer 11

Now I am also going to launch a startup, without big investments
1 - "On the knee" wrote a prototype (so that an example could show how it works)
2 - creating a landing page with a subscription form and donations. For donations, I offer various discounts and goodies in the future. With an investment of 50t.r, I offer a 100% discount. Well, with less investment, a smaller percentage.
3 - Place a link to the landing page wherever you can meet the target audience.
4 - Implement the project with the money raised
Now I am finishing the second stage. As a result, you can raise enough money for investments and recruit initial customers with subscribers
. As a result, I hope

Answer 12

In this book ("Startup without a budget" by Mike Mikalowitz) you can find answers to many questions: www.mann-ivanov-ferber.ru/books/luchiernoctar/tbb2

Answer 13

Really.

Answer 14

Yes, of course it's real.
As soon as something starts to turn out - money bags are pulled up.
But if you can’t do anything but whine, then you won’t succeed.

Answer 15

Everyone needs money, at first, to develop an idea, you can sometimes get by with small funds, but if you reach a good level, then you need investments.

Answer 16

I think what is important is an idea that has (or will have) its own target audience, niche.
If the idea is worthy and in demand, then it will definitely work.
But in our time, everything has already been invented, and where competitors do not poke everywhere (the more money the niche, the more competitors), i.e. you have to be better than them.

Answer 17

Here is a simple example for you www.optimove.com, the guys for 7 years brought and implemented the idea and grew to 80 people without investment.

Answer 18

There is doubt in the question itself. If pret - no doubt. If you are ready, you do it with your last efforts and with the last money, without thinking about business plans and investors. And if there is a product, then there will be something to show investors.

Answer 19

Yes.
But if you ask this, then you personally cannot do it.
It is necessary to do the job, and not to scratch the tongue.