How I Started My Full-time Business Life With 10X — And How You Can Do the Same.

Case Study: From a small start-up funding ($16,500) to a 6-figure business in just two years.

Chris, PhD
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It all started in mid-2021 with a small start-up funding of the equivalent of around $16,500. It was a German grant called Gründungszuschuss — but I’m pretty sure that there are comparable grants in other Western countries.

Not much as seed capital, but better than nothing.

How did the 850% and more — ‘nearly’ 10x at the time of writing — increase to 6-figure business still work? (Ridiculously small in retrospect, but as a beginner you have to overcome this hurdle — also mentally — first.)

From start-up grant to cash-flow business

The first question that arises is how best to get started with so little ‘seed’ capital or even with nothing at all — perhaps even as a side hustle.

If you have no other reserves and have to live on that money, the only solution is a so-called cash flow business.

Cashflow business: I would only recommend this to you, because your start-up money runs out quickly and then you need to live off your (first) earnings.

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Chris, PhD
Practice in Public

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