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Not sure what direction to take career wise

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What is it you want to say in a PM that you cannot say in public?
 

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Your value is greater than minimum wage.

I'm not going to dirty up Smile's thread.
 

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Tenacity and Sylvester, you are both right!

If you two were to enter into this venture, you would fail. Confidence, patience, persistence, tenacity, and discipline (inner game) as well as a concrete modus operandi (outer-game) are mastered by the few. Accordingly, most start-ups will fail. Not a venture worth pursuing.

I don't know about Sylvester, but as mentioned, my career is B2B Sales/Commercial Finance and I've been in this field for the previous 8 years. I also have an MBA, so when it comes to business I know "a little something" about it. I did say that you indeed provided a good amount of information within this thread, but the OP doesn't have the experience nor the structure to know what to do with it.

Having confidence, patience, persistence, tenacity, and discipline, without a STRONG business structure (working capital, legal, accounting, market research, strategic partners/vendors, financiers, ROI analysis, strategic business planning and efficient experience/knowledge of the industry), is like having a car with a nice exterior but with no engine, transmission, brakes, A/C and axles. On the outside the vehicle looks like it's "ready to go," but you soon discover that it just doesn't have what it "truly needs" to go anywhere.

But I'm not faulting you guru, what you did was the standard on Investment, Business and Wealth forums and even conferences. It's the "rah rah" hyper positivity, touchy feely, motivational speechy messages designed to "fire up" those green newbies out there! The "go get em tiger" speech! It's fine, but inconjunction with that "go get em tiger" speech just make sure you train them on proper business structuring and planning so that "tiger" doesn't just START a business, but actually PRODUCES RECURRING REVENUE.
 

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Tenacity, thanks for the input.

I would say, on average, I'm solicited with business plans a couple dozen times a month. Some of these plans are prospectuses for bona fide public offerings, not only delineating company modus operandi; but including certified existing and pro-forma financials, liquidation strategies, debt-to-income/PE ratios at aftermarket share pricing, LTD cost-efficiency book value, etc.

At the end of the solicitation, I take the prospectus and throw it across the room. I ask only one question of the solicitor: Why should I choose you?

I have entered into agreements with the most egregious-looking prospectuses, and have done quite well. Why? Because, while careful planning/solid infrastructure is ubiquitious in my arena, it is only the cussed bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool entrepreneur that would rather break than sway with the breeze that will succeed.

I am Smile's infrastructure. The problem is elsewhere.
 

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guru1000 said:
Tenacity and Sylvester, you are both right!

If you two were to enter into this venture, you would both fail.
No. I would not. I would succeed because I would have had the foresight to learn and understand the basic fundamentals of my business before starting up. I shall prove it too.
 
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