One of the most fulfilling things in life is to know that you have created something valuable. I became aware of this feeling only last week when I took some time off to look back at my journey so far as an online entrepreneur. And the moment I realized the value of my work, I realized that I have done so much to reach where I am now.

I have worked on my skills. I have spent countless hours working on projects and I have learned from my failures again and again. While I was having this thought, there was one more thought that crossed my mind. I had the thought of sharing my entrepreneurial journey with my readers.

So, in this post, you are going to go through my journey as an online entrepreneur and see that things that I did to reach where I am now.

My entrepreneurial journey started back in 2011 when I was still in my high school. I was one of those kids who didn’t like spending time loitering on the campus without any purpose. I used my spare time sitting in the library going through books about self-improvement and entrepreneurship. I had read almost all the books in the library that covered these topics. I was also spending a lot of time on the internet learning new skills.

There was so much to learn that I used to spend six hours every day on the internet reading the latest business tips and watching videos about building online businesses.

I spend around six months doing just that before I realized that I wasn’t doing anything practical. That was when I got into action and started my journey of entrepreneurship. I started with basic things like building a webpage, creating social media campaigns and running test ads on Google. I started with a shoestring budget and went on from there.

My first successful business model was a blog about high school gamers. Before the time I started my online entrepreneurial journey, I was into video games like most of my friends. The idea about starting a gamer blog came from there. Soon I went on to start a YouTube channel about gaming. However, it took me some time to realize that I was not very good at what I was doing.

That was when I started exploring other options for online business. I came to know about Android app development and did some research on it. Eventually, I found out that this was something that I could do for a living. I started learning the skills for becoming an Android developer. It took me about a year to learn the skills and work on trials before I could launch my first Android app. This time I was sure about making some money. I wasn’t wrong to think so. The app was a hit on the Play Store and I started making some decent money.

Soon, I figured out that being an online entrepreneur is not a one-man job. That was when I decided to build a team. I started with two of my juniors from high school and today after eight years of the journey, I work with a team of 13 members.

After having hired five people into the team, I decided to get some funding. I was not very confident about VC funding. I thought of a different strategy. I applied for loans from instant loan companies. Here is a website that helps you compare these company portfolios. I got my loan approval soon and started putting more money into the business. That loan had really helped me grow my business.

I started an affiliate marketing blog. It was doing well. Then I started a dropping business. That was a hit too. I invested the profit from those businesses into my e-commerce store. That was how I grew my business online.

Today, I have a wide network of online income sources ranging from mobile apps, online stores to social media services. The journey has been a long one and I have learned a lot from mistakes. That was how I started my business from scratch and scaled it to where it is now.

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