FBC – 215 – Beginners: How To fund your future business without spending …

Beginners: How To fund your future business without spending.

Today, I want to teach you how you can fund your future business without spending any of your own money. There is an option available for most of us and more often than not, we are not aware of it.

The biggest advantage is that hardly anybody “knows” about it and that means that there is a bigger slice of the pie for you.

All the answers are in this episode

I want to tell you about financing, you know, so financing your current business. OK. So, you know, many of you are relatively new to this thing. So some people are actually brand new. So you're looking for some inspiration or some ideas to start your business or something.

And you're basically testing the waters to understand what's required, which is very good. And I encourage you to do this. OK. So, yeah, I always try to be realistic. OK. So if you're in that situation right now where you have your job but you aspire for something more. You want something else.

Right. So, you know, some people will tell you, the hell with it. Just quit everything. And unless you quit everything and you put yourself in a situation where you're back's against the wall, nothing's going to happen. Then you have to force yourself to do stuff. So that's one school of thought.

You know what I think? Something that happens very often and something that I actually recommend you do. Learning on somebody else's money. So if you are working for a company right now, this is what you're doing, right. The company is paying you a salary and they're teaching you stuff.

So they're teaching you their processes. They're teaching you, you know, what's required to do whatever job it is that you're doing, they're actually training you. It's being financed by the companies and it's not coming out of your own pocket. OK, so this is something you do every day.

They're giving you all the tools. They're giving you everything you need and you get paid for it. OK. So now this is established, you can use this to your advantage. OK. And you know, again, I always try to be very realistic and take every situation. There's no situation where there is only one answer.

Yeah. Quit everything. To hell with corporate. Go on your own and forget about everything. Leave everything behind. Yes. Well you can do that. But there are other alternatives.

Another alternative would be this. And this is something I have done, for example. Not necessarily because I wanted to but I just did it because I wanted to move up and evolve as a person. All right.

So just as I said that you're learning on somebody else's money, you're learning the tasks that are assigned to you when you first start your job. And you need to learn the skills. Not everything's already planned for you. But here's the thing. If you want to acquire more skills, so some other skill that will be necessary for that business you want to create.

Beginners: How To fund your future business without spending

So what you can do in your company right now is to be able instead of quitting everything and, you know, learn on you on the spot, which, you know, it's possible. Instead you can be financed by your company to learn sales. So you just have to go to your company and tell them that you want to learn sales for something that will benefit the company.

So who are they to say no? You're like, dude, here's the thing. I think that if I were better at selling, I could retain more clients. We're close more clients for the business and stuff. It will benefit everybody if I could have training in sales. And what's going to happen? They're going to give you the training in sales. So basically, all these skills that you will need afterwards for your future, you can acquire now.

You know, we and I think I told you that several times that we under we overestimate the number of things we can do in a week and we underestimate the number of things we can do in a year. OK. So let's say you want to start your business. Well, you can give yourself six months of intensive sales training.

You think that you'll be ready in a year? It's not too far right? You know, it will come if you're busy acquiring the skills necessary to help you, to propel you to where you want to go. Then six months or a year is a good investment. All right.

So there are lots of trainings that you can get like this from your company on somebody else's money. All right. You just have to go to your to your boss or whatever and, you know, tell them, OK, this is where I want to go.

You do not need to quit your job to start building your future. Your employer is already willing to fund your education. You just have to ask for the right training.

The smartest entrepreneurs learn on someone else's dime before they ever risk their own. If your employer will pay for the skills you need, you would be leaving money on the table not to take them up on it.

How I would fund a business from nothing if I had to start over today

Beginners always ask me where the money comes from, and they expect me to name an investor. I never do. I funded my first businesses the ugly way, by selling a skill before I felt ready and reinvesting every cent. I built four companies from a laptop without a single round of outside money, and that constraint was a gift, not a curse. It forced me to make something people would actually pay for in the first week. Stripe Atlas makes this exact point to new founders: revenue is the cleanest and least dangerous form of funding you will ever find. On my LinkedIn newsletter I break down the operator moves I used to bootstrap without drowning. The other lever most beginners ignore is leverage through systems. I built more than 1,500 automation workflows so a tiny budget could do the work of a full team, and I show the tactics on my YouTube growth hacking playlist. HubSpot Research data on early stage growth agrees: the businesses that survive are the ones that sell first and raise later, if ever.

Frequently Asked Questions: Funding Your Business Without Spending Your Own Money

Is it really possible to fund your business skills through your employer? Yes, and it is more common than most people realize. Companies regularly invest in employee development because it benefits the business. If you can frame a skill you need for your future business as something that also helps your current employer, most managers will approve the training. You gain the skill, they retain an upskilled employee, and you paid nothing out of pocket.

How long should you stay employed while building skills this way? As long as it takes to acquire the specific competencies you need. Martin suggests thinking in blocks of six months to a year rather than weeks. We overestimate what we can build in a month and drastically underestimate what we can build in a year of focused skill acquisition. Use that time deliberately and you will launch your business from a position of genuine capability rather than optimistic naivety.

What kinds of skills are worth acquiring through your employer? Anything that transfers directly to running your own business. Sales, negotiation, project management, digital marketing, data analysis, client communication. These are skills that cost thousands of dollars to acquire privately but are freely available inside most corporate environments to anyone willing to ask for them strategically.

About the Author

Martin Ebongue is the founder of martinebongue.com, an online business and lifestyle design blog focused on helping aspiring entrepreneurs build location-independent businesses. Since 2014, he has been creating and scaling online ventures across multiple niches, from digital products and affiliate marketing to SaaS and content platforms, while traveling the world. He shares the real-world strategies, tools, and systems that work, with a particular focus on AI-powered automation for solopreneurs. Follow him on YouTube, X (Twitter), and Instagram.

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