Posts Tagged ‘Entrepreneur’
Entrepreneurs: You Can Only Take People As Far As You Have Gone Yourself
It’s true what they say: no one person really knows EVERYTHING.
Then there is the saying about people who know a little about a lot of things. However, this does not make one an expert by any stretch of the imagination.
Recently, I read an article entitled “Be Careful Who You Listen To” on a blog from James Malinchak, a gentleman and fellow entrepreneur I know from several years ago when we were in a speakers training weekend course. I enjoyed reading his article which he posted in a group I subscribe to on LinkedIn.
How Willing are YOU to become a Great Entrepreneur?
Being an entrepreneur is a heck of an undertaking.
I believe being an entrepreneur is one of the greatest professional life experiences a person can have. When you sign up, you may have stars in your eyes and be armed with your dreams, passions and imagination. Good! You’re going to need them all.
Being an entrepreneur is a choice – a GREAT one.
Business Dinners: 10 Tips for the Entrepreneur
Business dinners are a great way for entrepreneurs to get to know potential partners, team members or even co-founders. It is also a great way to pick an advisor or mentors brain. These dinners allow you get to know someone better and create a long lasting relationship because you now have more than just a working relationship.
However, these dinners are often dull and stuffy or sometimes they are nights filled with an overabundance of alcohol. No matter what type of business dinner you may be a part of; here are some great tips that will help you make it through your night of professional dining.
Business Planning vs Business Plans
Being a business planning professional, I continually am reading articles and blogs on the subject.
These articles and blogs often have polarizing titles that range from business plans are essential to business plans are a waste of time. My take away from reading many of these articles is that the authors mainly agree that business planning should be an integral part of any startup or ongoing concern. Where they disagree is what should be the tangible output of this business planning exercise. The answer of this question depends upon what you are trying to accomplish.
If You Really Want to Be An Entrepreneur, Then Get In The Game
Have you met those people who talk about the business they’d like to have one day? They talk about the product or service they’d like to provide and describe the one they would feel comfortable and competent selling and serving to others?
You know them.
They even go to the extent of naming their business and maybe even coming up with a great tagline for it. Maybe they even go further to draw, or better yet, have a logo designed for it.
They talk and talk and talk and talk about it. They talk ad nausea about it. But they never seem to take that essential step… of doing it.
What’s holding them back?
Entrepreneurs: You Need to Know How to Pitch
One of the entrepreneurial buzzwords I have heard in recent months has been “elevator pitch.” Many networking groups have been pushing elevator pitch events as can be evidenced by the 45 upcoming meetups scheduled for elevator pitches.
35 groups talk about elevator pitches in their description. But as someone who has attended many networking events and heard just about every entrepreneur at New York Entrepreneur Week pitching their idea, I think that the elevator pitch is no longer the key but rather the “pitch to pitch” is.
Lets face it; we no longer have the attention span we did 5 years ago. Twitter has shortened our attention span to 140 characters.
Is Your Good Idea a Good Business? (Part 3 of 3)
This is the last in a series of three on how to build and use economic models to determine the viability of your business idea. In the previous two entries, I discussed how market sizing and segmentation and competitive market research can help you, the entrepreneur, validate initial revenue and cost assumptions and build a more robust model that can be used to feed into the financial projections of your business plan. In this post we’ll explore how “reference businesses” can contribute to the economic modeling process.
You’re an Entrepreneur: Everything Is Going to Be Okay
What do you do when big changes are happening?
As entrepreneurs, we are guaranteed to find ourselves amidst massive periods of change from time to time.
The ebb and flow in supply and demand for your products, services or system may find you at times feeling like you are in a freefall with no safe landing place in sight.
What do you do when change strikes?
