Your Own Boss?
So You Want To Be
Your Own Boss?
What does it take to be your own boss?
It's a fire in the belly.
It's a desire to follow through your vision
Here's one I actually found in a
fortune cookie and keep in my wallet:
"Your ability to juggle
many tasks
will take your far."
Do you have what it takes be be an entrepreneur?
Lemonade Stand Business Simulation
Select variable such as weather, price, and how many cups to make and see if you made money at the end of the day
Are you a self-starter?
Resources to Check Out
Competiton
All is not fair in love, war and business. Every business has competition. Business and sports was conceived to replace war. Now instead of raiding your village and stealing your women and animal hides, they raid your company and steal your ideas, secrets, customers and market share. This is true whether you are in the computer business or pizza business.
"Business is a combination of war and sport" Andre Maurios
So what's the big idea?
Small Scale Food Production in Your Kitchen
Intellectual Property Basics from the Franklin Pierce Law Center
Search the Trademark Office DatabaseTrademark Search by Atlas Group
Where are you going to buy what you need to impliment your idea?
Money...You Will Need Money
Here's what the bank will want before they give you 10 cents.
The Small Business Administration
SCORE..you tell'm wagon wheels. You've been through it!
National Council for Urban Economic Development
Beating the Drum...advertising.
It always works on paper.
And if you screw up.....
You're with a bank for 10 years and you buy into "relationship banking" and they're your "partner". Don't believe it! Here's what Corestates did to me.
You Can Make a Mistake Thinking People Will Want to Help You
My Year Living in Bankrupcty
We went to everyone for help.
Competitors, Customers,. Suppliers, Other Banks,.
Investment
Bankers, Factors, Fraternity Brothers.... I'm gathering my
thoughts on this page...coming soon
And here's couple of little ditties to keep you going:
It's more than just making money!
"I get knocked down and I get up again.
You're not gonna keep me down."
You Must Be Resilient.
"The only place where success comes before work
is in the dictionary."
Vidal Sassoon
"It Takes Twenty Years to Become
an Overnight Success"
Eddie Cantor
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success
when they gave up."
Thomas Alva Edison
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world,
the unreasonable man attempts to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends
upon the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw
