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If you want
to start a business, read these five tactics for finding
entrepreneurial
success:
1.
Find a need and fill it
When Ross Perot was working for IBM, he saw
that his customers who were buying IBM computers needed help processing their
data. He went to IBM with this idea, and they said they weren't interested, so
he pursued this
entrepreneurial opportunity and started his own business. He eventually sold it out for $2.8 billion dollars.
He found a need and he filled it.
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2.
Find a problem
and solve it
A secretary working for a
small
company began mixing flour with nail varnish in order to white out the mistakes
she was making in her typing. Pretty soon, her friends in the same office asked
if she could make some for them. So she began mixing it at her kitchen table.
Then, people in other offices started asking for it, and she eventually quit her
business and worked full time creating what is today called Liquid Paper. A few
years ago, she sold her company to Gillette Corporation for $47 million.
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3.
Look for solutions
Find a way to supply a product or a service better,
cheaper, faster or easier. Clemmons Wilson saw that there was a need for hotels
that could accommodate families that were traveling, and he started Holiday
Inns. And Holiday Inns has now become one of the most successful hotel chains in
the world.
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5.
Invest sweat equity in your business
Most great fortunes in America
were started with an idea and with personal effort and were started with the
sale of personal services. This is called sweat equity. In other words, instead
of cash equity, put in sweat equity. Put in the sweat of your brow to
begin your
business. Once you've come up with a product or anstart to invest your time,
talent and
energy instead of your money, to get started.
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Action Exercises
Here are two things
you can do immediately to put these tactics into action:
Find
a need and fill it. Look around you and search for needs that people
have for products or services that are not being met. One small idea is
enough to start you on the way to
Business Success.
Find a problem and solve it. Look
around you for problems that you or other people have that are not yet being
solved.
Look for solutions that nobody has thought of and give them a try.
One good solution could change the direction of your life. |
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at
the technology with the eyes of my
customers,
normal people's eyes. |
Jack Ma
AliBaba |
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