Or you can do it the original way...I usually make about 3-5 mil day 0 and use about 1200 fuel
Taxi until enough for dream sower/galaxy whale and some cargo holds, spot check in controlled systems and check port buying/selling prices of ALL resources (not just big money resources) if you find some good ones, run them only a couple of times, exit in controlled, planet hop and kill aliens, selling resources to ports (at 5 resource per alien, this adds up quick and is a very good way to make a decent chunk of change) try for some arti locs, and sell them to port

works like a charm for me! Hope it will do the same for you!