SBA loan! Friends and family loan. You’ll get a job, feel stabler and safer for awhile, and be too tired to work on other stuff until the next time you’re in the same boat.
- open an LLC to protect your -$10,000 in assets
- open lines of credit using the LLC (don't worry about what a Paydex is)
- ???
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But I get what you're saying --you're saying, get funds together by any means necessary (SBA is a straightforward path) and bootstrap/found a company.
It's still certainly possible to start up a software business. Basically the business needs to provide enough value to customers that they'll pay for it, and what they pay needs to cover the costs of the business.
That is profitability (which is something even many large VC-backed tech companies have totally forgotten how to do).
Software businesses can be started with low costs...
I'll probably get the same pessimistic replies, but this is definitely a valid path for the brave and competent.
...may not be the best environment to go and start taking out loans to open your own business. Especially not for a micro-SaaS where profit margins should be something like 80 something percent on a terrible day.
SBA loans are better matched for opening a business where your margins are in the single digits and you need to pay vendors X weeks out before you can make a single sale. Not selling software you can write for $0 and host on a $10 VPS.
- Open LLC
- Take out huge, collateralized SBA loan
- ???
- Profit?
- Open LLC - Take out huge, collateralized SBA loan - ??? - Profit? - ???
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