More and more people are looking for ways to start a business without the need to invest massive amounts of money. The fact is many people that want to start a business just don’t have a lot of money to get started and are looking to start a business on a small or micro budget.
When you remove the need for some things like staff, an office, and other overheads, it becomes a much more achievable dream to start a business. This is effectively going for the shoestring budget option, while it is not as cheap as a pair for shoelaces to get started it is the comparative cost to starting a business with all the trimmings, that for so many just are not needed.
Starting your business on a shoestring budget is something that you can often find will go almost hand in hand with having No Fixed Office. An office truly is one of those things that it can be really easy to discard from the upfront costs, especially if you are running a service business or a business that deals directly with other businesses. There is also another great domino effect that this creates especially in the beginning stages.
Not having an office, also often means that you find the need to have staff to fill that office is not as great. It is the constant game of one trying to fill the space you have and two trying to make it look like what you believe a business should look like. If you have the space in an office for 4 or 5 people to work then you are going to want to try and fill that space, to make your business look like what you have been trained to think a business should look like.
A business as you create from nothing has no specific this is what it should look like or this is what you need to have. You effectively can create a business that will achieve the same with or without an office it just depends on the scale and your point of view, change from the closed “I have to have an office and a staff and and and” point of view to the “I can do this on a shoestring and make more money in less time on my own” point of view. It is not always an easy point of view to swallow, but it is something that often gets easier with time.