1、充分利用现有工作

    查克•萨可

    查克•萨可有五个孩子。这对意图辞职创业的人来说可算不上是一件好事。因此，萨可就遣散费的问题与公司进行协商，还跟公司签署了一份每月咨询服务合同。随后，他在2007年与别人共同创立了PhindMe Mobile网络移动公司。他说：“当时我每周大约要工作上百个小时。”他的辛劳付出终于获得了回报。2009年，他的公司与位于宾夕法尼亚州布林茅尔的Movitas移动公司合并，并于2010年吸引了300万美元的天使投资。

1. Piggyback on your current job

    Chuck Sacco

    Chuck Sacco had five kids at home, which isn't a good thing when you'd like to quit your job and start a business. So Sacco negotiated a severance package with his employer -- and a monthly consulting contract -- and co-founded PhindMe Mobile in 2007. "I was probably working 100 hours a week," says Sacco. It paid off. His startup merged with Movitas, a Bryn Mawr, Pa., tech firm, in 2009, and the company attracted $3 million in angel funding in 2010.

2、去大学校园物色低廉劳动力

    查克•萨可还找到了另外一个办法来促进事业的发展的。他发现，通过在爵硕大学（Drexel University）教授创业课程能认识很多学生，可以聘用他们作为低成本的实习生为自己新成立的公司效力。即使从未教过书也没有关系，可以先尝试给商学院学生做演讲。查克这样的兼职教授很受大学的欢迎；而他曾在爵硕大学攻读MBA，正好是该校的校友。

2. Head to campus for cheap labor

    Another way Chuck Sacco, the PhindMe Mobile founder, helped his business: He discovered that teaching an entrepreneurship course at Drexel University was a great way to meet low-cost interns for his young business. Never taught before? Not a problem. Break in by volunteering to speak at a business-school class. Colleges and universities have an insatiable appetite for adjunct professors like Sacco, who also happens to have an MBA -- from Drexel.

3、寻找合适的孵化器

    在自家的车库起步创业或许听起来很有几分传奇色彩。但如果能利用当地的创业孵化器，会走得更顺。你能享受到会议室、前台接待和复印机等便利设施。孵化器的服务能让你的事业看起来更专业，同时还能得到很多有益的建议。曾在摩根大通（J.P. Morgan）担任投资银行家的埃德利兹奥•科鲁兹说：“（选择孵化器，）你能充分借助别人的力量。”他自己的电子商务网站Regalii.com就是借助一家孵化器来运作的。这家孵化器位于费城科学中心，接受康卡斯特电信公司（Comcast）的资助。

3. Find a good incubator

    Opening a business in your garage may be romantic in a startup sort of way. But start off at a local incubator and enjoy the conference rooms, receptionists, and copying machines. It also makes you look a lot more professional, and it's a great way to get good advice. "You really feed off other people's energy," says Edrizio De La Cruz, a former investment banker at J.P. Morgan. He runs his e-commerce startup Regalii.com from a Comcast-backed incubator in Philadelphia's Science Center.

4、参加创业竞赛

    2011年莱斯大学创业计划大赛（Rice Competition）的冠军团队“TNG制药”赢得了大约65万美元的奖金。

    很多知名商学院都会举办面向在校学生和校友的创业计划大赛，为他们的创业方案提供奖金支持。【《财富》杂志（Fortune）也是莱斯大学创业计划大赛（the Rice University Business Plan Competition）的赞助者之一。】这类竞赛可以说是获得种子基金的绝佳途径，因为一般来说并不需要偿还这笔钱。还有一些风投公司、非营利机构或致力于推动商业发展的政府机构，甚至是一些图书馆都会举办类似的竞赛。可以登陆BizPlanCompetitions.com网站，了解近期商业竞赛的相关信息。

4. Hit the contest circuit

    The top team at the 2011 Rice Competition, TNG Pharmaceuticals, took home prizes valued at nearly $650,000.

    Many major business schools run competitions for students and alumni, awarding prize money to help fund their startups. (Fortune is a sponsor of the Rice University Business Plan Competition.) These can be a great source of seed money, largely because you generally don't have to pay it back. Some venture firms, nonprofits, government agencies that foster business development, and even libraries run contests too. To find out about upcoming contests, visit BizPlanCompetitions.com.

5、寻求本地资源的友情支持

    杰克逊维尔市的克林特•德罗迪从一家招聘公司辞职后开创了自己的保健品电子商务公司iMethods。他辞职后做的第一件事情是什么呢？他说：“我打开了教堂的联络簿。”他从中联系上了当地的一位银行家，邀他加入了公司的义务董事会。这位银行家又帮他招募到一位注册会计师、一位律师，还给他介绍了销售和运营方面的熟人。德罗迪请他们吃午餐，还邀请他们一起参加短途旅游以便增进交流。八年后的今天，他的公司已经实现了盈利，去年的收入达到了600万美元。

    本文作者Verne Harnish为经理人教育机构Gazellas公司首席执行官。

    译者：李玫晓/汪皓

5. Search for free advice at home

    What's the first thing Jacksonville's Clint Drawdy did when he left a corporate recruiting company to start his health care IT firm iMethods? "I opened my church directory," he says. That's how he found a local banker to join his all-volunteer board. The banker helped him attract a CPA, a lawyer, and contacts in sales and operations. Drawdy buys them lunch and invites them on outings where they can network. Eight years later the company is profitable; it had revenue of $6 million last year.

    --Verne Harnish is the CEO of Gazelles Inc., an executive education firm.