You don't need to raise money before you have a product. Learn to code or find a developer, build something minimal, give it away free to get users, and grow through referrals. The speaker scaled to 30 employees across multiple companies by hiring incrementally as the product proved itself.
Everybody's raising millions and millions of dollars for this product, which I think makes sense in a sense if you're, you know, doing some kind of physical product. But I also, you know, look at it like, well, if you wanna make an app, just go learn how to, you know, be a programmer, partner with a programmer. So many people are looking to do JBs, you know, then just, you know, build from the ground up, get a couple users, let people in for free, do your work for free, and then continue to build, ask for referrals. And eventually, you know, again, we currently have 30 full-time employees across all of our companies. You know, it just over time you can add people. add branches of the business, develop new things, get new software. But you really don't need a lot to start nowadays. And I, I think that's one of the biggest mistakes people make is they go down the, the traditional business startup— I hate to use that word, but startup route— where it's like, I need to go and raise $10,000, $20,000, $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 because they want to have the business before they actually have the product, which is really what creates the business, not vice versa. So
