I see a lot of posts here about: “I have an idea, how do I get funding?”. And always the same answers so here is a post for all of you who have an idea but believe money will solve all your problems.Idea is worthless. Sorry it just is. The only way you will get money based on an idea is if you use your own or have a great track record of past performance. And even then you probably shouldn’t take it/invest it, but do some research and most importantly get the idea going before investing more than a few dollars.At the idea stage you have one great advantage and that is time. So go out there and talk to as many people as possible about your idea. But when talking, talk about their problems and not your idea. Your idea should be then pitched at the end. Then create an MVP (for those who don’t know what MVP is. It is a minimum viable product. It can be an app on paper, model, etc. MVP for Airbnb was three people that stayed with Chesky while there was a conference...). After you have MVP talk to people again and ask them how would they use it, would they pay for it, how would they like to use it, etc.By this point you have spent a few dollars if not 0$, but now you have something. You know what your potential customers want and what problems they have. How you can help them and potentially make money. Now it is time to create a pitch and get some money if you need it. But remember that you don’t need to buy everything. You can lease a lot of things or just rent them and so on.Hope this helps some of you. If you want I can write part 2 on this. What options do you have to raise the money, based on what field you are working in.P.S. Personal story. I was starting a company and I was just like a lot of people here. I need 250k$ to build a product. But guess what, I managed to find some software and create an MVP for 0$ and get my first customer with that.TL;DR talk to potential customers. see hubwealthy.com/wealthy
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