First degree

TANSTAAFL or there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Otherwise known as "for a nickel more, it's free", or BOGO =buy one, get one. You can bet and win that the cost of a Loss leader is made up in volume. The cost of advertising is a normal cost of doing business and results in a larger bottom line.. What's all this talk about "business" on a space blog? Something or someone has to PAY for every "thing" in your life even if you think it was free. It wasn't. Gosh, is that news to you? Have you had your pencils taken from you in class so that those that came to school without any can "share the wealth". Forced charity is NOT charity at all, it's theft. Just because instituted authority can do it with a pistol to your head does not give it the force of morality. You own your person, not the government, and therefore the products of your labor. (remember the amendment against slavery? still applies regardless of the law being ignored by the instituted "government". Such drivel you say, "Have you registered for the draft".)

A private venture into space will require MONEY. The first degree of the Six is to find like minded people to organize into a body of people interested in getting it DONE. Used to be called a Company. But networking a social group is "where it's at" now-a-days. Let's not depend on the government handout. Let us instead find a way to generate a "cash flow" for every member of the group such that it meets our basic needs. Maslow's hierarchy of Needs has Self Realization at the top with a full belly and other needs at the bottom as the base of the pyramid. Therefore we need a "CASH FLOW" with leftovers to realize our dream. Space. Survival with Style. For the whole human race.  Go out and find someone as nuts about Space Development as are you. Chain reaction. Find two.
~Heinlein's Ghost