Many people have ideas for businesses, but they have no idea where to begin or think they need a lot of resources up front to start out. While having additional resources is beneficial, it is not a must to have a pot of gold when embarking on a new venture.

Being an entrepreneur myself, I've learned five different ways you can start a business from the ground up you might not have considered:

  1. Bootstrap a minimum viable product. Bootstrapping is all about starting with what you have, rather than waiting for a perfect moment and the perfect resources to start a perfect project.
  2. Use a customer-funded capital model. This might be hard to believe, but sometimes, people will be willing to pre-pay you for a service or product before it launches if you can show validation that you will deliver on your promise.
  3. Consider crowdfunding. The beauty of the internet is that it lets you reach millions of people in an instant and broadcast your idea at almost no cost.
  4. Think beyond your family and friends. New entrepreneurs need funds for their businesses, so many will tap into their immediate networks to ask for those funds.
  5. Become an intrapreneur. This one is my favorite avenues for running a business, as it is a method that has worked out very well for myself. An "intrapreneur" is essentially an entrepreneur within an existing company — someone who didn't risk their own funds to start the business but joined an existing one as a partner or has become a partner within time.

Read the full article about entrepreneurship by Sardor Akhmedov at Forbes.