One of the worst thingsan entrepreneur can dois to go into a businesswithout consideringthe challenges ahead. Let us look at some thingsthat can help make these challenges easier, but there is no avoiding them
Coaching for Growth and Development Part 1 - Do you have a Growth Mindset?Mindstrong Ltd
Coaching individuals and teams to encourage growth and personal development requires a growth mindset. Before they can begin coaching others, leaders must first identify whether or not they have the right mindset for success.
Creating your professional development plan 3 surprising truthsEmmanuel Leslie Addae
This document discusses three surprising truths about creating an effective professional development plan (PDP). The first truth is that developing your skills is your own responsibility, not your employer's. Second, a PDP should be regularly revised as goals and circumstances change over time. Third, professional development and skill-building is an ongoing process, so a PDP is never truly complete and should be used throughout your career. The document provides examples and advice for creating a meaningful PDP to facilitate career growth.
The document provides advice on factors that contribute to business success that are under an entrepreneur's control. It recommends having a positive attitude and believing in yourself. It also advises developing a business plan, writing a mission statement, managing your time effectively, continuously learning about your industry, taking calculated risks, focusing on goals and dreams, and using debate to improve decisions. The keys to business development are said to be leadership, motivation, teamwork, productivity, and debate.
Problem-solving is important both to individuals and organizations because it enables us to exert control over our environment. Problem-solving skills gives us a mechanism for identifying these things, figuring out why they are broken and determining a course of action to fix them.
Would you want to START a BUSINESS without leaving your JOB? What if we told you that you can keep your job and run a business at the same time?
“The Entrepreneur Employee (Starting a Business While Being Employed)” or the #Entreployee is a half-day workshop that aims to help employees augment their income by running a business while still being employed. This unique workshop, also aims to help participants avoid the pitfalls of trying to balance their jobs and their businesses.
In this half-day course, you will learn to:
1. Identify your acumen for business
2. Adapt the right attitude for starting a business while employed
3. Think proactively
4. Manage your time between your business and your job
5. Create an action plan for you to move forward
Webinar - Black Belt Business - The Dos and Don'ts of Choosing a Business Spe...Nathan McDonald
The Dos and Don’ts of Choosing A Business Specialist
Are you in business and ever been promised by an outside specialist that they can change your business, though they never delivered. Are you relying on outside specialists to help implement your marketing, sales, HR, accounts etc. Do you even need a specialist, consultant coach or guru.
During this webinar come and discover the following 7 tips on getting outside help:
How to find out what help I need in my business from outsiders.
The questions you need to ask your prospective specialists.
Making sure you are getting value.
Targets that need to be set for your specialists.
Ensuring you get results every time
View the webinar here:
http://www.blackbeltyourbusiness.com/events/past-events/
The document discusses various management topics including focus management, change management, mindset management, conflict management, self management, performance management, problem analysis and decision making, and strategy management. It emphasizes the importance of focus and provides contact information for Progress Academy which offers management trainings.
Coaching for Growth and Development Part 1 - Do you have a Growth Mindset?Mindstrong Ltd
Coaching individuals and teams to encourage growth and personal development requires a growth mindset. Before they can begin coaching others, leaders must first identify whether or not they have the right mindset for success.
Creating your professional development plan 3 surprising truthsEmmanuel Leslie Addae
This document discusses three surprising truths about creating an effective professional development plan (PDP). The first truth is that developing your skills is your own responsibility, not your employer's. Second, a PDP should be regularly revised as goals and circumstances change over time. Third, professional development and skill-building is an ongoing process, so a PDP is never truly complete and should be used throughout your career. The document provides examples and advice for creating a meaningful PDP to facilitate career growth.
The document provides advice on factors that contribute to business success that are under an entrepreneur's control. It recommends having a positive attitude and believing in yourself. It also advises developing a business plan, writing a mission statement, managing your time effectively, continuously learning about your industry, taking calculated risks, focusing on goals and dreams, and using debate to improve decisions. The keys to business development are said to be leadership, motivation, teamwork, productivity, and debate.
Problem-solving is important both to individuals and organizations because it enables us to exert control over our environment. Problem-solving skills gives us a mechanism for identifying these things, figuring out why they are broken and determining a course of action to fix them.
Would you want to START a BUSINESS without leaving your JOB? What if we told you that you can keep your job and run a business at the same time?
“The Entrepreneur Employee (Starting a Business While Being Employed)” or the #Entreployee is a half-day workshop that aims to help employees augment their income by running a business while still being employed. This unique workshop, also aims to help participants avoid the pitfalls of trying to balance their jobs and their businesses.
In this half-day course, you will learn to:
1. Identify your acumen for business
2. Adapt the right attitude for starting a business while employed
3. Think proactively
4. Manage your time between your business and your job
5. Create an action plan for you to move forward
Webinar - Black Belt Business - The Dos and Don'ts of Choosing a Business Spe...Nathan McDonald
The Dos and Don’ts of Choosing A Business Specialist
Are you in business and ever been promised by an outside specialist that they can change your business, though they never delivered. Are you relying on outside specialists to help implement your marketing, sales, HR, accounts etc. Do you even need a specialist, consultant coach or guru.
During this webinar come and discover the following 7 tips on getting outside help:
How to find out what help I need in my business from outsiders.
The questions you need to ask your prospective specialists.
Making sure you are getting value.
Targets that need to be set for your specialists.
Ensuring you get results every time
View the webinar here:
http://www.blackbeltyourbusiness.com/events/past-events/
The document discusses various management topics including focus management, change management, mindset management, conflict management, self management, performance management, problem analysis and decision making, and strategy management. It emphasizes the importance of focus and provides contact information for Progress Academy which offers management trainings.
Business Discipline - Key To Business FreedomNathan McDonald
Check Out The Video Recording Here: http://www.blackbeltyourbusiness.com/events/past-events/
Discipline is not all about having stand over you screaming and yelling to ask for more. Discipline starts with you!
You can have the best product or service, the best marketing, the best team, though if you are missing Business Discipline then your business will not be as advanced as you want it to be.
People think of Discipline in a negative way, though during this webinar, you will learn that Business Discipline is really simple and easy. All it takes is just turning up and doing.
Martial Arts is related to discipline in a big way, though think about it, elite athletes have discipline to train, elite musicians have the discipline to be great in their field. As a business owners what discipline do you need to have the business Freedom you deserve?
In this training webinar, you will learn:
- Discipline is not a negative word.
- Learning that discipline is just increasing your maximum motivation level.
- Simple steps to increase your business discipline.
- Results that you can expect by having great business discipline.
- Plus many more tricks and tips to use with your business discipline.
The document summarizes a corporate strategic action plan workshop offered by Tim Meinhardt. The workshop teaches business owners how to create a strategic action plan, analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and set goals and strategies. Attendees will receive sample frameworks and tools to develop a strategic plan for their organization. The workshop helps owners take control of their business direction and boost results. Follow-up support is also available to help owners implement their new strategic plan.
This document provides an introduction to consulting and tips for client relationship management. It outlines that consulting involves providing expert advice to solve problems for clients. Five tips are provided: 1) Make a great first impression by arriving early and being prepared; 2) Manage client expectations by providing regular updates and quick responses; 3) Use euphemistic language to soften messages; 4) Ask open-ended questions to probe deeper and gain buy-in; 5) Justify all recommendations with data. The goal is to effectively communicate at all stages of the problem-solving process.
How to Fix Recurring Business ProblemsStephen Bush
Alternative strategies for fixing common recurring problems within organizations of all sizes. In this presentation by Stephen Bush, these ongoing challenges are also referred to as Zombie Business Problems.
Time management is the process of organizing and planning how to divide one's time between activities efficiently. Good time management allows one to accomplish more in less time, even when time is limited. It involves planning, organizing, prioritizing tasks, and setting time limits to be more productive and reduce stress. Key aspects of time management include identifying time wasters, creating goals, planning ahead, delegating tasks, and establishing routines.
Webinar - The Right Mindset of a Business OwnerNathan McDonald
Go to www.blackbeltbusiness.com
Mindset will make or break your business. Rarely do we ask ourselves if we are thinking about our business the wrong way. This webinar will show you some strategies to test your mindset and help you refocus.
Learn:
• Why your business may not be growing as well as you think it should be.
• The 7 keys areas of business to master. Most are extremely easy to do, we just don’t do them.
• Why a break is important and how to take a proper break to refresh your mind.
• Why we don’t take risks.
• Why our team runs our business, not the business owner.
Top 10 Tips for Making Your Business More Effective Mark Wardell
This document provides 10 tips for making a business more effective: 1) Become an expert on your current customers to strengthen relationships and increase business. 2) Systemize business operations by documenting procedures. 3) Empower employees to take on day-to-day tasks to increase efficiency. 4) Appreciate employees to build loyalty and motivation. 5) Create a 3-5 year vision for the business to guide direction. 6) Measure marketing efforts to focus on effective strategies. 7) Hire experienced business professionals to take the business to the next level. 8) Provide regular feedback to employees to foster productivity. 9) Solve underlying problems rather than just addressing surface issues. 10) Use an assistant to manage your schedule and double
Businesses should answer these three questions right — Scale-up.AshenafiBordea
This document discusses the importance for business leaders to answer three key questions - Why, What, and How - when making decisions that impact company growth and success. Answering the Why question first is essential, to ensure decisions align with the company's vision and passion. Without a clear understanding of Why, leaders may make flawed decisions focused solely on profits over dreams. Answering Why also helps automatically answer the What tasks and How methods needed to achieve goals.
Driven Business Coaching provides virtual coaching services to help small business owners develop healthy habits for achieving work-life balance and business success through assessment, analysis, and action. Their coaching methods use psychological principles and business sense to elicit self-awareness and goal-setting in clients to improve productivity while reducing stress. Services are specialized for niche businesses and conveniently delivered remotely at a reasonable price.
The best way to get people interested in what you have to say is to touch their emotions. Telling a good story not only helps to deliver your message it also helps connect with your audience or client on an emotional level.
As, possibly, the oldest form of teaching, Storytelling is an indispensable skill for Public Speakers, Trainers, Managers, Business Owners, Sales People, and more. Learn the art of storytelling and sell your message to the world.
Ongoing training is key to any professional's success - and sales is no different. Here is a VERY brief overview of some things to think about regarding sales training.
6 Common Mistakes That Could Tank Your Customized Sales TrainingCriteria for Success
To paraphrase from Anna Karenina:“Happy sales teams are all alike; every unhappy sales team is unhappy in its own way.”
When working to fix an unhappy sales team, it can seem like the challenges you’re facing are completely unique to your company, situation, and industry. Many sales managers and CEOs set out to find customized sales training solutions that suit their particular type of “unhappy.” Customized sales training is seen as the perfect solution – it will be tailored to my unique circumstances and thus will get the best results.
However, not every type of customization is created equal. It is indeed possible to customize too far and get away from the best practices common to all those “happy sales teams.”
Here are six common pitfalls when designing or signing on for a customized sales training solution.
Creative thinking is essential for businesses to stay competitive, solve problems, and develop future leaders. Encouraging creative thinking at all levels of a business involves motivating employees to create, providing support, cross-training opportunities, an open door policy, and integral development. Techniques like brainstorming and role-playing can stimulate creative thinking.
Paul Hesp is an experienced business manager and self-employed management consultant who provides various services including mentoring, coaching, consultancy, and support for business planning, strategy, marketing, bids, tenders, and quality assessment. He helps clients by coaching them to improve performance and implement change, providing impartial guidance and challenging plans to give clients confidence and motivate quick, decisive action, pointing them towards government grants. Past clients praise Paul for facilitating renewed commitment, providing crucial advice, and transforming not just businesses but leadership styles and confidence.
This document promotes a motivational management masterclass seminar based on a bestselling book. The seminar will teach managers leadership skills to build happy, highly motivated teams through creating a stress-free work environment where staff are self-motivated to deliver business results. The interactive workshop delivered by Alan Fairweather helps managers reduce absence and turnover while learning how to deal with difficult staff and help staff get what they want, resulting in less manager stress and positive team results.
The document provides tips for running a successful company, including focusing on continuous change and new ideas. It emphasizes focusing efforts, thinking about long-term goals, staying flexible, monitoring competition, having confidence through hard work and patience, weeding out low performers, knowing employees well, pursuing new ideas while maintaining flexibility, and not underestimating competition or taking shortcuts.
Useful tips for saying "no" include setting intentions for what you want to achieve, prioritizing commitments, and making "no" the default answer unless a request meets specific criteria. When facing the silent treatment after an email goes unanswered, don't take it personally, don't pester with repeated follow-ups, and manage your emotions by not stressing if you don't hear back. To battle job boredom, think of new approaches, see change as possible, and renew your leadership agenda. Focusing on social problems involves creating a bigger pool of ideas, increasing partnerships, and focusing on solutions that help people. Stop ignoring growth opportunities by asking employees what could put the business at risk, as the biggest innovations
This document provides guidance on building an effective team. It outlines several steps a team can take to:
1) Understand their goals and responsibilities, trust each other, and effectively deal with conflicts.
2) Assess their current performance and communication patterns through a team check-up to identify areas for improvement.
3) Further develop interpersonal skills and open communication through activities that build trust and understanding between members.
4) Continuously check progress over time through feedback, assessments and individual development planning to measure growth and strengthen the team.
KRG has started 6 businesses in various industries with mixed success. The document provides advice for entrepreneurs on preparing to start a business, including having the right mindset, qualities, and understanding the challenges. It discusses forming the business entity, raising money, protecting intellectual property, understanding competition, and advises entrepreneurs to act with imperfect information and adapt quickly. The overall message is that entrepreneurship is very challenging but also rewarding.
This document defines women entrepreneurs and discusses their characteristics and importance. It notes that women entrepreneurs are risk-takers who initiate and run business enterprises. They exhibit traits like being imaginative, hard-working, and able to take risks and earn profits. The document also outlines leadership qualities and push/pull factors that influence women's decisions to become entrepreneurs. It concludes by emphasizing the growing role of women in business and economic development.
Business Discipline - Key To Business FreedomNathan McDonald
Check Out The Video Recording Here: http://www.blackbeltyourbusiness.com/events/past-events/
Discipline is not all about having stand over you screaming and yelling to ask for more. Discipline starts with you!
You can have the best product or service, the best marketing, the best team, though if you are missing Business Discipline then your business will not be as advanced as you want it to be.
People think of Discipline in a negative way, though during this webinar, you will learn that Business Discipline is really simple and easy. All it takes is just turning up and doing.
Martial Arts is related to discipline in a big way, though think about it, elite athletes have discipline to train, elite musicians have the discipline to be great in their field. As a business owners what discipline do you need to have the business Freedom you deserve?
In this training webinar, you will learn:
- Discipline is not a negative word.
- Learning that discipline is just increasing your maximum motivation level.
- Simple steps to increase your business discipline.
- Results that you can expect by having great business discipline.
- Plus many more tricks and tips to use with your business discipline.
The document summarizes a corporate strategic action plan workshop offered by Tim Meinhardt. The workshop teaches business owners how to create a strategic action plan, analyze strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and set goals and strategies. Attendees will receive sample frameworks and tools to develop a strategic plan for their organization. The workshop helps owners take control of their business direction and boost results. Follow-up support is also available to help owners implement their new strategic plan.
This document provides an introduction to consulting and tips for client relationship management. It outlines that consulting involves providing expert advice to solve problems for clients. Five tips are provided: 1) Make a great first impression by arriving early and being prepared; 2) Manage client expectations by providing regular updates and quick responses; 3) Use euphemistic language to soften messages; 4) Ask open-ended questions to probe deeper and gain buy-in; 5) Justify all recommendations with data. The goal is to effectively communicate at all stages of the problem-solving process.
How to Fix Recurring Business ProblemsStephen Bush
Alternative strategies for fixing common recurring problems within organizations of all sizes. In this presentation by Stephen Bush, these ongoing challenges are also referred to as Zombie Business Problems.
Time management is the process of organizing and planning how to divide one's time between activities efficiently. Good time management allows one to accomplish more in less time, even when time is limited. It involves planning, organizing, prioritizing tasks, and setting time limits to be more productive and reduce stress. Key aspects of time management include identifying time wasters, creating goals, planning ahead, delegating tasks, and establishing routines.
Webinar - The Right Mindset of a Business OwnerNathan McDonald
Go to www.blackbeltbusiness.com
Mindset will make or break your business. Rarely do we ask ourselves if we are thinking about our business the wrong way. This webinar will show you some strategies to test your mindset and help you refocus.
Learn:
• Why your business may not be growing as well as you think it should be.
• The 7 keys areas of business to master. Most are extremely easy to do, we just don’t do them.
• Why a break is important and how to take a proper break to refresh your mind.
• Why we don’t take risks.
• Why our team runs our business, not the business owner.
Top 10 Tips for Making Your Business More Effective Mark Wardell
This document provides 10 tips for making a business more effective: 1) Become an expert on your current customers to strengthen relationships and increase business. 2) Systemize business operations by documenting procedures. 3) Empower employees to take on day-to-day tasks to increase efficiency. 4) Appreciate employees to build loyalty and motivation. 5) Create a 3-5 year vision for the business to guide direction. 6) Measure marketing efforts to focus on effective strategies. 7) Hire experienced business professionals to take the business to the next level. 8) Provide regular feedback to employees to foster productivity. 9) Solve underlying problems rather than just addressing surface issues. 10) Use an assistant to manage your schedule and double
Businesses should answer these three questions right — Scale-up.AshenafiBordea
This document discusses the importance for business leaders to answer three key questions - Why, What, and How - when making decisions that impact company growth and success. Answering the Why question first is essential, to ensure decisions align with the company's vision and passion. Without a clear understanding of Why, leaders may make flawed decisions focused solely on profits over dreams. Answering Why also helps automatically answer the What tasks and How methods needed to achieve goals.
Driven Business Coaching provides virtual coaching services to help small business owners develop healthy habits for achieving work-life balance and business success through assessment, analysis, and action. Their coaching methods use psychological principles and business sense to elicit self-awareness and goal-setting in clients to improve productivity while reducing stress. Services are specialized for niche businesses and conveniently delivered remotely at a reasonable price.
The best way to get people interested in what you have to say is to touch their emotions. Telling a good story not only helps to deliver your message it also helps connect with your audience or client on an emotional level.
As, possibly, the oldest form of teaching, Storytelling is an indispensable skill for Public Speakers, Trainers, Managers, Business Owners, Sales People, and more. Learn the art of storytelling and sell your message to the world.
Ongoing training is key to any professional's success - and sales is no different. Here is a VERY brief overview of some things to think about regarding sales training.
6 Common Mistakes That Could Tank Your Customized Sales TrainingCriteria for Success
To paraphrase from Anna Karenina:“Happy sales teams are all alike; every unhappy sales team is unhappy in its own way.”
When working to fix an unhappy sales team, it can seem like the challenges you’re facing are completely unique to your company, situation, and industry. Many sales managers and CEOs set out to find customized sales training solutions that suit their particular type of “unhappy.” Customized sales training is seen as the perfect solution – it will be tailored to my unique circumstances and thus will get the best results.
However, not every type of customization is created equal. It is indeed possible to customize too far and get away from the best practices common to all those “happy sales teams.”
Here are six common pitfalls when designing or signing on for a customized sales training solution.
Creative thinking is essential for businesses to stay competitive, solve problems, and develop future leaders. Encouraging creative thinking at all levels of a business involves motivating employees to create, providing support, cross-training opportunities, an open door policy, and integral development. Techniques like brainstorming and role-playing can stimulate creative thinking.
Paul Hesp is an experienced business manager and self-employed management consultant who provides various services including mentoring, coaching, consultancy, and support for business planning, strategy, marketing, bids, tenders, and quality assessment. He helps clients by coaching them to improve performance and implement change, providing impartial guidance and challenging plans to give clients confidence and motivate quick, decisive action, pointing them towards government grants. Past clients praise Paul for facilitating renewed commitment, providing crucial advice, and transforming not just businesses but leadership styles and confidence.
This document promotes a motivational management masterclass seminar based on a bestselling book. The seminar will teach managers leadership skills to build happy, highly motivated teams through creating a stress-free work environment where staff are self-motivated to deliver business results. The interactive workshop delivered by Alan Fairweather helps managers reduce absence and turnover while learning how to deal with difficult staff and help staff get what they want, resulting in less manager stress and positive team results.
The document provides tips for running a successful company, including focusing on continuous change and new ideas. It emphasizes focusing efforts, thinking about long-term goals, staying flexible, monitoring competition, having confidence through hard work and patience, weeding out low performers, knowing employees well, pursuing new ideas while maintaining flexibility, and not underestimating competition or taking shortcuts.
Useful tips for saying "no" include setting intentions for what you want to achieve, prioritizing commitments, and making "no" the default answer unless a request meets specific criteria. When facing the silent treatment after an email goes unanswered, don't take it personally, don't pester with repeated follow-ups, and manage your emotions by not stressing if you don't hear back. To battle job boredom, think of new approaches, see change as possible, and renew your leadership agenda. Focusing on social problems involves creating a bigger pool of ideas, increasing partnerships, and focusing on solutions that help people. Stop ignoring growth opportunities by asking employees what could put the business at risk, as the biggest innovations
This document provides guidance on building an effective team. It outlines several steps a team can take to:
1) Understand their goals and responsibilities, trust each other, and effectively deal with conflicts.
2) Assess their current performance and communication patterns through a team check-up to identify areas for improvement.
3) Further develop interpersonal skills and open communication through activities that build trust and understanding between members.
4) Continuously check progress over time through feedback, assessments and individual development planning to measure growth and strengthen the team.
KRG has started 6 businesses in various industries with mixed success. The document provides advice for entrepreneurs on preparing to start a business, including having the right mindset, qualities, and understanding the challenges. It discusses forming the business entity, raising money, protecting intellectual property, understanding competition, and advises entrepreneurs to act with imperfect information and adapt quickly. The overall message is that entrepreneurship is very challenging but also rewarding.
This document defines women entrepreneurs and discusses their characteristics and importance. It notes that women entrepreneurs are risk-takers who initiate and run business enterprises. They exhibit traits like being imaginative, hard-working, and able to take risks and earn profits. The document also outlines leadership qualities and push/pull factors that influence women's decisions to become entrepreneurs. It concludes by emphasizing the growing role of women in business and economic development.
This document discusses what an entrepreneur is and provides information on entrepreneurship. It defines an entrepreneur as someone who effectively controls a commercial undertaking or starts an economic activity. Entrepreneurship involves recognizing business opportunities and mobilizing resources to create value. The document outlines characteristics of successful entrepreneurs like being risk-taking, perceptive, and curious. It also discusses the scope for entrepreneurial activities in sectors like small businesses, agriculture, services, and challenges faced by entrepreneurs like financing, team building, and decision making in high-stress environments.
Legal issues are important for entrepreneurs to consider when starting a business. Key issues include intellectual property like patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Patents protect inventions and have different types governed by the Patents Act of 1970. The patent process involves filing an application, examination, possible opposition from others, and ultimately the grant or sealing of a patent. Infringement of patents occurs when an invention is used without a license and can result in injunction or penalties. Other legal matters entrepreneurs should be aware of include business methods, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing, product safety and liability, insurance, and contracts. While not needing expertise in all areas of law, entrepreneurs benefit from a basic understanding of relevant legal issues and consulting with
as an entrepreneur is getting into business there difficulties in order to penetrate the chosen market or business. it has solutions in how to overcome the barriers.
The document discusses interpersonal skills and transactional analysis. It describes three ego states - parent, adult, and child - that people shift between. There are three types of transactions between two people based on the ego states: complementary, where responses are inviting; crossed, which can cause difficulties; and ulterior, with hidden motives. Developing self-awareness, communication skills, and the ability to handle conflicts are important for interpersonal interactions.
This document defines women entrepreneurs as women who own and control an enterprise with at least 51% financial interest and employment. It discusses key qualities of women entrepreneurs such as being ambitious, hardworking, and adventurous. Examples provided include Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo, Ekta Kapoor who founded Balaji Telefilms, and Shahnaz Hussain who built a global herbal company. Common challenges faced by women entrepreneurs are societal responsibilities, lack of education, difficulty obtaining credit in a male-dominated business environment. The government has implemented programs like Mahila Vikas Nidhi to support women entrepreneurs.
The challenges of a First Time EntrepreneurJohnson Goh
The document discusses the challenges faced by a first time entrepreneur. It notes that entrepreneurship is a marathon, not a sprint, and that the most important things are to embrace failure, have a strong support network, and solve problems rather than just working on something cool. It emphasizes that the team is crucial, and the entrepreneur argues and fights with his co-founder a lot but that it leads to better decisions. It highlights that people are the most important asset and the entrepreneur was picky about finding the right co-founder. The road is still long but the entrepreneur enjoys the journey.
Startup Saturday Delhi: To be or not to be Entrepreneur: Bootstrapping Challe...Gaurav Mishra
Presentation given at Startup Saturday Delhi on challenges faced while bootstrapping. Talked about my experiences running a hosting company and a social media agency.
The document discusses various legal issues relevant to entrepreneurs, including selecting a business entity, employment law, intellectual property, and liability. It provides an overview of common business entities (e.g. sole proprietorship, LLC), important factors to consider when choosing a structure, and requirements and protections of intellectual property mechanisms (e.g. patents, trademarks, copyrights). The document also outlines key employment law considerations regarding hiring, discrimination, handbooks; as well as potential liability issues businesses may face.
Challenges faced by other young entrepreneurskipout87
This document summarizes a discussion between entrepreneurs on the challenges of starting a business. Some of the key challenges discussed include raising capital, selecting a profitable business idea, developing new customers within a short time frame, budget constraints, gaining customer trust, maintaining service consistency, and managing risks given the early stage of the business. The entrepreneurs emphasized the importance of teamwork, communication, prioritizing tasks, and selling in order to overcome these challenges and achieve success.
OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES AS AN ENTREPRENEUR/SMEs IN MALAYSIA Smallbuss l...Yana Qlah
This document discusses opportunities and challenges for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. It begins by outlining the session objectives which are to understand basic opportunities for SMEs, challenges they face, and the importance and challenges of women entrepreneurs. It then details various opportunities available to SMEs through government programs and policies as well as private sector initiatives. These include financial assistance, research and development support, and trade promotion. However, SMEs also face challenges such as access to funding, lack of research and development, underutilization of technology, labor shortages, lack of branding, and limited access to domestic and international markets. Overcoming these challenges requires efforts from both the government and SMEs.
This document provides an overview of key legal issues for entrepreneurs including intellectual property rights, patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, licensing, product safety and liability, insurance, and contracts. It defines these legal concepts and terms, provides examples, and outlines important considerations for entrepreneurs in managing legal risks and protecting their innovations, brands, and businesses.
The document discusses how business success is increased when both hard skills (technical/measurable skills) and soft skills (relationship skills) are utilized together in a balanced way. Soft skills like communication, teamwork and problem solving are important for business success but can be difficult to measure. The objective is to explore how to determine the right balance of hard and soft skills for greatest business impact. Coaching is presented as an effective way to improve soft skills by changing thinking patterns and developing more effective solutions.
Building a Strategic Business Case for your ProductJoe Raynus
The document provides guidance on building a strategic business case, including convincing management that an investment is financially sound and aligned with strategies. It emphasizes the importance of measuring success and benefits realization. Several approaches to business cases are discussed, from traditional cases just for funding to newer value cases that actively manage benefits realization. The document also cautions that business cases often contain untested assumptions and may not track actual benefits achieved.
Building a Strategic Business Case for your ProductJoe Raynus
The document provides guidance on building a strategic business case, including convincing management that an investment is financially sound and aligned with strategies. It emphasizes the importance of measuring success and benefits realization. Several approaches to business cases are discussed, from traditional cases just for funding to newer value cases that actively manage benefits. The document also cautions that business cases often contain untested assumptions and may not track actual benefits achieved.