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By definition there is not a single business that is profitable from day one. A plumbing business isn't profitable until the tools and vehicles have been paid f
by ccc3 17y ago
By definition there is not a single business that is profitable from day one. A plumbing business isn't profitable until the tools and vehicles have been paid for.
The important consideration is the size of the deficit (in time or money or ownership) a company accepts and what they gain in exchange. And the bigger the deficit, the higher the stakes.
- thaumaturgy 17y agoI bootstrapped a consulting business, and didn't have any savings at all to do it. I had to be profitable from day one. I did not even have a laptop at the time (for network diagnostics and the like) -- I just had my experience. I've had to learn an awful lot about resource management as a result of doing it this way, and I'm grateful for that.
- ccc3 17y agopresumably there was a significant cost in time and/or money required to gain that experience.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoYou've got to live anyway. Might as well pay attention while you're doing it.
- dmose 17y agoI would argue that prostitution is profitable from day one..
- graphene 17y agotechnically, I don't think that's quite true; a company can book profits even as it's paying off a loan which is bigger than the profits or even than total turnover as long as (operational cash flow) - (interest payments) > 0. I think it's perfectly possible for, say, a company funded by VCs to be profitable from the start of operations, since the money that bought the equity isn't expected to be paid back.