Reddit mentions of Growing a Business

Before you spend your money on anything else go buy these two books:




Growing a Business by Paul Hawken


http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Business-Paul-Hawken/dp/0671671642/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344566035&sr=8-1&keywords=growing+a+business+hawken



Guerrilla Marketing by Jay Conrad Levinson


http://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Marketing-4th-Inexpensive-Strategies/dp/0618785914/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344566128&sr=8-1&keywords=jay+conrad+levinson+guerilla



There are a lot of variables that need to be considered. $25,000 is nothing. Seriously, it is nothing. You could easily blow that in a day on equipment. If you are really smart and frugal you could also shoot a very low budget feature.

• How many partners do you have? What is the legal form of the business to be?
  
• What is your customer base? How will you attract more customers.
  
• What is yours and your partner's expertise and experience. How about reputation in the film community?
  
• What sort of productions do you intend to make.
  
• What is your five year plan?
  
  All of the above is just scratching the surface. Know that 95% of all new businesses fail in the first five years. It is not realistic to answer your quesry as there are too many pieces of information missing. That being said, the best advice I can give you is this:
  
  
• Write a business plan, a real, professional business plan, the kind you can show to investors or a bank. Even if you are going to be self funded, this is an important exercise. You will learn so much by doing this.
  
• Start small
  
• Grow slowly. New businesses make a lot of mistakes. If you are on a small budget then the cost of your mistakes will be smaller.
  
• Too much money can kill a business faster that not enough. New businesses with too much funding tend to get into expansion way before they are ready.
  
• Marketing, Marketing, Marketing.
  
• Don't quit your day job, at least not until you have so much business that you have to.
  
  I hope that helps.