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StartUpBuilder
Panel of Experts
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What Will I Learn In Bronze?
The Bronze section
of this website is designed to provide you with greater
insight into your own readiness to try your hand at business;
but more importantly, it provides you with the core fundamentals
needed to correctly launch your business successfully.
Regardless of whether you are considering making the move
into entrepreneurship from a corporate setting, returning
to work after an absence of a few years, or making the
leap from an academic program, starting a business requires
preparation, discipline, dedication, and rigor to the
skills and aptitudes necessary to ease your transition
into business ownership. By following the lessons shared
by the uniquely and specially chosen panel of experts,
you can avoid common mistakes made by others who failed
in their endeavors to launch a business, or may have had
to overcome their errors through the school of hard knocks.
Rather than "learn the hard way" - StartUpBuilder.Com
provides you with the essential skills you will need to
master as you begin your journey towards living your dream
of owning your own business and controlling your own professional
destiny.
How
Were The Experts Chosen?
The experts were
selected through careful assessment of factors relevant
to you, the new or prospective business owner. Rather
than select experts on the strength of friendships, or
favors owed to me; I went out and chose only people who
had demonstrated experience and success at doing the very
things they are providing counsel on to you and others
on this website. Each of them have met the following criteria:
1- They have worked within corporate settings,
so they understand the complexities of working within
companies and can relate to the issues confronting subscribers
considering leaving a corporate setting.
2- Each of them have experience with securing clients
that run the gamut from the largest most sophisticated
companies to the smaller, but most nimble competitors
in their industries. The expert panel will share their
wisdom and secrets with you that they have gleaned from
working with clients and customers that represent the
entire spectrum of business experiences.
3- They have successfully launched at least one
start-up business (and often have done so more than once)
4- They have demonstrated not only an interest,
but a talent for education, teaching, training, and developing
others within their fields of endeavor.
5- They have made a commitment to make themselves
available to you or recommend others well-suited to assist
you on a one-on-one basis through the Gold phase of this
website.
How
This Site Helps You
This site will
explain for you in a non-technical, jargon-free way what
factors really count as you begin to plan and prepare
for your new business effort. Divided up into different
levels of engagement (Bronze/Silver/Gold), each of the
experts will provide you with guidance and assistance
in focusing your efforts to maximize the success of both
you personally, and your business. By providing you with
a chance to hear from experts across five key fundamental
areas essential for your business success:
1- Finance
2- Business Planning
3- Sales
4- Marketing
5- Management
You will be provided with a relationship not unlike a
mentorship with your favorite teachers. Follow the advice
provided and in no time at all, you will see that is much
more rewarding to succeed in your own business if you
DON'T GO IT ALONE!
Bronze
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BizQuiz
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Why
You Shouldn’t Do This
You have now come to that fork in
the road – do you travel the
path of the tortured soul willing
to “bet it all” on a less
than certain thing, or do you pick
up your chips from the table and
decide that prudence and working
for others is the better strategy.
Whichever path you choose, there
will always be that moment when
you catch a glimpse of yourself
in the mirror and wonder, “How
would it have been different if
I would have chosen the other path?”
How many of the below statements
have crossed your mind and are scaring
you away from starting a new venture?
(anything less than 10 out of 10
is not being truthful!)
1- The
overwhelming majority of new businesses
fail within the first few years
of opening
2- You will be assuming responsibility
for a “spouse” that
never sleeps, always puts demands
on your time, does not recognize
weekends, and never is satisfied
3- You are ready to give birth
to a “child” that is
always hungry for more time and
attention, is ungrateful, rarely
if ever does what you expect it
to do, and whose maturing is not
something that you view as an
occasion for celebration
4- Your only experience in running
a business enterprise was a newspaper
route or a lemonade stand when
you were a kid
5- Your skills are highly developed
in your area of expertise, but
you hate (selling, accounting,
information technology, etc.)
6- Your lifestyle is predicated
on a steady income based on a
twice monthly paid salary
7- You have little (or no) money
saved up in the bank to sustain
you through the lean weeks/months
of your business start up when
expenses are high, and income
is low
8- You realize you will likely
not see friends or family on the
same schedule or regularity as
you were able to previously. When
they are “off work”
– you are just kicking into
gear or hitting overdrive
9- You have little idea on how
expensive it is to rent property,
buy technology, acquire insurance,
purchase supplies, hire experts
(accountants, attorneys, printers,
etc.).
10- You slept through your business
classes and barely can keep your
checkbook baanced - how can you
manage a business on your own?
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