i was wondering if anyone would be willing to share any ways to get money to start a business other than loans

Saving up is really the only other way. Budget part of your current income or get a second job and put all the money from it into a savings account.


...Or win the lottery

Loans, savings, rich relative, lottery. That's about it.

thanks for yall's replies. pretty much the same answers i been getting. i guess this determines who really wants to do this. thks again

Lottery that's what I need.

i sold my house

pretty much what everyone else said. You either use your money (savings) or someone else's (loans .... from banks, from relatives, from partners/investors).

In MBA language it's referred to as FFF...Friends, Family, Fools.

Gotta remember that one!

Tax return money.

I worked full time and did the cakes part time, and took every extra penny I had into building the cake business from the full time job. Bought equipment, smallwares, etc. Then I went part time job and full time bakery and took only money I made from the bakery and put it back into the bakery and then put extra money into savings. After two years of this, I had enough saved up to keep the bakery going during the dry times and had the equipment I needed, so quit part time job. It was hard, no sleep, but my companies credit rating is wonderful shape because I always did cash in, cash out, and was then able to get the bigger loan to buy a company van and a SBA loan. (banks aren't loaning money to food business, period.)