Buy, Learn , steal, and borrow: Effective business and marketing techniques for Entrepreneurs with lesser means or on a budget
Entrepreneurs often find themselves in high-stakes negotiations with big, savvy players, with significant negotiating power (referred to herein as “Big Boys”) – whether it be a venture capital firm in connection with a financing or a private equity firm in connection with the sale of the entrepreneur’s business; the situation can indeed be daunting. Below are ten tips for entrepreneurs to help them through this process.
There’s been a blatant misconception on the features and characteristic of an entrepreneur by the mainstream media, of all the documented fallacies about our weary road to success; these are the most prominent.
1) Entrepreneurs are born not created:
Wrong Wrong Wrong Wrong… Entrepreneurs can be created, faced with a tough decisions and their backs to the [...]
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10 Feb 2010So you’ve been telling everyone about this genius idea you’ve got, obviously your mum, dad, and other family members tell you what you want to hear. But what about the others? The ones who genuinely think your idea is not that great after all and your missing a big piece of the puzzle, or the [...]
Too many business owners wait till the very last stages of failure to launch a ”salvage the business plan”. The reality is at this point there is often very little to salvage, you become another victim to your imperturbable attitude towards your business. The initial signs of the path to ruin are always very vivid [...]
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17 Dec 2009Hypocrisy feels weird, like Pam Anderson’s asymmetrical silicon filled twins. The reason I bring up hypocrisy is that my astute readers would have noticed the immense emphasis I’ve put on retaining that treacherous 9 to 5 while making the transition to be your own boss. But remember that famous Einstein saying that says: insanity is [...]
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12 Dec 2009Before jumping into the immensely unstable waters of starting a business, you should have a checklist; sort of like life preservers to keep you afloat in case your business happens to run head first into an iceberg. Here’s what mine looks like:
1) A basic business plan:
You can never go wrong when you go simple. Although [...]
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7 Nov 2009Alright, you’ve finally convinced yourself you can be the next Mark Zuckerberg, and you’re tired of lining the pockets of another man. Your idea has been meticulously generated and has the potential of draining down the competitors, like a sink in an industrial kitchen( you know,the drains with the blades in them). I’m glad you’ve [...]