Welcome
Our goal is to be your “best” single source of information on Starting & Growing your Business !!!We intend to do this by providing information that will help you to determine:
- Should I start a Business? (Am I quail-fied? Do I have the passion about my idea to persist when the going gets tough?
- What is the Problem/Need?
- How does my Solution solve this?
- Who is my Competition? What are their Advantages? Market Share?
- Is my solution Faster, Better, Cheaper than other Solutions?
- If I need to file a Patent to protect my Idea
- How I can qualify my Product or Service to determine if it’s “value” is worthy in the market
- What is our Value Proposition
- Which prospective Customers should I talk to, to determine if they be appreciate the “ value” of our product
- What kind of help I need, to develop the product & how to compensate them
- If want a Partner to help me bring this product to market.
- Getting Marketing help to determine the most advantageous “niche” of who the Target Market will be.
- The best way to reach this Target Market (via a Marketing Plan) within our Budgetary Goals
- Strategic planning by writing – at least an Executive Summary – and reviewing it monthly
- What will be the Vision of your business – as it’s long term goal
- The qualities of a Web Master
- Getting help from Advisors, Mentors, Coaches & Networking
- Who should be on the Board of Advisors? Board of Directors
- What BootStrapping will do for us
- How we can get Family, Friends & Fools to help us get started
- What our Financial Model is to earn $
- Financial Projections to get to the “break-even” point
- . SWOT Analysis:
- Strengths: Weakness:
- Opportunity/s: Threats: (Competition)
- Barriers to Entry? is _ months/years.
- How to acquire & use Leadership skills to “motivate” our Team to cooperation & creativity
- Using the 80/20 Rule in our Business
- Tools to help us manage our Business better
- Preparing our Pitch for Investors
- Advice from successful Entrepreneurs
- Now that you have some “Traction” from Sales, how are you going to Grow your Business to the next level?
- Exit Strategy (if we want one)