It Doesn't Take Money To Make Money | Brandon Leibel | TEDxSDSU

Starting a business is all fun and games until you're eating ramen everyday and using your kitchen as an office space -- hear SoundCloud's co-founder's story to success filled with a lack of funding, innovative marketing ideas and heartfelt anecdotes.
It wasn’t long ago that Brandon Leibel attended San Diego State University with dreams of working in the movie industry. He graduated in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in television, film and new media. However, Leibel’s love for San Diego pushed him to stick around, opting for a sales position at a local insurance company.

[ryanni]

This had me so ready to CRY. No one has a stronger drive than someone who's starving to succeed.

[alexbk]

What’s more important then money? The balls to consistently get out of your comfort zone and go for what what you want. 99% of people are not willing to do this, and settle.

[tomc]

People like him deserve that success, overcoming obstacles is the biggest challenge in life . Desire for success is the drive

[kataonly]

Lack of money is going to finance your resourcefulness and make you successful. Word brother.

[JoseRodriguez-rxck]

The title of this talk should be "It does not take A LOT of money to START A BUSSINES", but people I am sorry, money still makes a lot more money than "no money", that is the way it is.

[queenh]

Im ready to give this level of dedication to a passion personal to me, rather than providing this same level of commitment to an organisation that doesn't even know my name yet I'm a part of their organisation making ish happen for them.

[Nteyrve]

I sold all my furniture and bought a box of beach towels. Now I live in a house with furniture made from beach towels and work at McDonald’s. Thanks guy

[tsheposhibane]

Thanks... Very motivational. I'm a South African. I'm attempting to build a business to rid unemployment.

[dancedricarevalo]

I don't know...I'm all for supporting and motivating the startup community--I did one myself--but his entire talk just reinforced that it DOES take money to make money. Apart from commenters stating the obvious (they actually squeezed out money to get money), his team did all those efforts and even went social media superstar but still little to no sales. Then he wraps up that after getting backing and funding only then did they go millions of sales

[BrandonAEnglish]

Having money or not having money aren't determiners of success. It is the drive and passion we have, which provides our natural motivation. Any motivation we might otherwise artificially inject will never assist us if we are laboring away at causes or work which we neither value nor feel passionate about.

[sherzod]

1.5 years passed, but im not gonna give up. I've learnt adobe ps, illustrator, filmora, insta strategies (just like mentioned in the video), learnt wordpress to build a web site. i've got customer database everything is ready except for small business equipments.

[franciscorosa]

Whoever looks for success, always makes a mistake, thinks that the important thing is the arrival, but what is really important is the trip, not the arrival. And you only realize the error when it's all over!

[slademassie]

At first I was thinking, wow TED talks have really fallen in quality and content. Then I noticed, it is not a TED talk, but a TEDx which means anyone come talk even if you're wrong.

[noahkabz]

The experience shared in this video simply informs me even more that life itself is and endless resource that we can tap from and make our dreams a reality and not the make money to make money attitude.

[joppekim]

He got money, or things of value that he sold, he also got a friend that he could live in a apartment with which is cheaper.
So many conditions i knew it was too good to be true.

[katiemonster]

He’s not really saying you can make money with no money- it’s more like if you have no money you need to be think more, be more resourceful, dedicate yourself to an idea, make things happen with some creative financing and eventually it will pay off. He’s really saying Money can’t buy the experiences, will and determination you get along the journey - and that experience is going to make you successful in the long run. Of course, he’s a success story and we like to hear about success as opposed to the those broke dudes who failed and lost everything

[cesarmendez]

He started an online business with no money and they were not selling anything until driving uber he met a tv reporter so the business was on TV and everything changed. I just saved 12 minutes of your life.

[prophet]

I’m starting my small business but I’m a bit lost into this, My lack of study makes me overthink so much when comes to a decisive moment I have a problem since child dealing with maths and was slow learning in this subject, But I’m trying everyday to develop something from my head to use as a tool in order to achieve the success

[servicioslinguisticos]

HOT DAYUMN! So that whole summer vacation I spent enclosed in my living room in front of my computer, watching tutorials and reading blogs on how to do the things I need for my embryo-stage business was NOT time wasted?! You've given me hope. Thank you.

[SuperGreatSphinx]

Making money isn't hard in itself...
What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind