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School for Startups Minutes
by [email protected] (Jim Beach)
The short vignettes are taken from School for Startups Radio. We release a quick thought to motivate or educate you about a different facet of entrepreneurship every day.
Episodes
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SFS Minute 1090: Pets
This week, we have been talking about depression and how to get better if you are suffering from depression. If you are having depression problems, please call someone who can help. Maybe you go to the bar and have a Coke and talk to the bartender. Maybe you go and get counseling at the church....
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SFS Minute 1089: Sleep
Many Americans are depressed, and it's a very sad statistic. I admit that I have had extended periods of my life where I was not very happy, and I have had to reach out to get help from others. It's important that you reach out, accept help from others, and go find other new people if the current...
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SFS Minute 1088: Get Help
Sadly, so many Americans are depressed, maybe 15%. And that makes me very unhappy because there are things that we can do to get better and to be less depressed. I've already mentioned that you could stop waiting. You must be proactive. You must stand up and say, "I am depressed, and I'm going to...
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SFS Minute 1087: Stop Waiting
This week, we are talking about depression and how to do things that make you feel better. I've been honest that I've had periods where I was very unhappy, and I'm trying to share some of the things that make me feel better. The number one thing is to do some work. Get out there and be…
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SFS Minute 1087: Stop Waiting
Unfortunately, almost 14% to 15% of Americans say that they are depressed. 24% say that they have some sort of mental issue. These numbers make me so sad, and I want to admit that I have been depressed. I've had years where I was incredibly unhappy for a long period of time.nAnd I want to talk…
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SFS Minute 1085: Your Customer Doesn't Care About You
I hope you have seen the lesson from this week that you and your customers think about different things. You're excited about the new colors that you're offering, the new horsepower improvement, and the new gauge that you've introduced into the system, and the customer is excited because it fits...
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SFS Minute 1084: Your Customer Doesn't Care About Your Business Plan
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. Five things your customer doesn't care about has been the topic this week, and I think we've been having some fun pointing out some of the silly things that customers really don't care about. And number one, really, on the list is your...
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SFS Minute 1083: Your Customer Doesn't Care About Your Technology
This week, we are having fun talking about things that your customer just doesn't care about. We've already talked about your logo and your slogan and your company colors, and we've talked about how hard you work. Do the customers care about any of that stuff? It's just not something that they…
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SFS Minute 1082: Your Customer Doesn't Care How Hard You Worked
When you're starting a business, there are things that you're just so proud of. You spent so much time on it, and then all of a sudden, you had a light bulb moment in the middle of the night and wrote it down, and it's been working ever since, and you're so proud of it. Well, your customer…
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SFS Minute 1081: Your Customer Doesn't Care About Your Logo
This week, I want to talk about a topic that's a little bit different. Things that your customer doesn't care about. That's right. You may care a lot about them, and they may be really important to you, the entrepreneur, and you may have spent hours on them. But unfortunately, your customer just...
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SFS Minute 1080: Tenacity
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. This week, we have been talking about the importance of the great idea. You have to have a great idea to move forward and be a success. No, most entrepreneurs are copying other people's great ideas and having just as good a success. So...
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SFS Minute 1079: Execution
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. Oh, to have a great idea. We all love it. In whatever capacity, when we have a great idea about sports, or decorating, or building a garden, or whatever it is, there's nothing that makes us feel better than having a great idea. But in...
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SFS Minute 1078: Distribution
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. I love the topic this week, the idea that there are things better than a great idea. There's nothing worse than sitting on the sofa your entire life saying, when I get my idea, I will. No, you just have to go ahead and get started and take...
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SFS Minute 1077: Good Timing
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. This week, we are talking about great ideas and that there is actually something more important than a great idea. That's right. It seems crazy. It seems counterintuitive, but it is true. There are things better than a great idea. For...
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SFS Minute 1076: Customer
A great idea. A brilliant idea, a life-changing idea. There's nothing better than that, right? That idea. Oh, I've been waiting for years, and finally, I have the great idea. There's nothing better. Well, wait, there is. And this week, I want to talk about it. There are 5 things better than a…
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SFS Minute 1075: Who Said No
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. I hope you have enjoyed this week's topic. It is one of my favorites: five crazy ways to get new customers to grow your business. Remember, there is nothing more important than having a system that produces new customers, whether you are...
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SFS Minute 1074: Nobody Else
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. This week is all about alternate ways of thinking. The topic is five weird ways to find new customers. Getting new customers is the lifeblood of your business, and you need a system that does it, whether you're working on it or not. And…
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SFS Minute 1073: Who Already Has
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. Finding new customers is the lifeblood of your business. And so this week, we are talking about five crazy ways to get new customers. We've already talked about using reviews and also replicating your single best customer. Today I have...
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SFS Minute 1072: Best Customer
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. I love the topic this week. Five weird ways to find new customers. Already this week, I've suggested looking at the bad reviews of your competitors and reaching out to those people. In addition, you need to look at the great reviews that…
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SFS Minute 1071: Bad Reviews
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. As a business owner, there is nothing more important than finding new customers. You must have some sort of system that does it, whether you're focusing on that or not. This week, I want to talk about 5 weird, crazy ways that you can get…
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SFS Minute 1070: Scale
This week, I've tried to give you a 5-step plan to get a business up and running as soon as possible. We've walked through things like finding a problem to solve. People will always pay for a problem to go away. We've talked to potential customers. We've delivered a prototype or an idea of what…
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SFS Minute 1069: Perfect
This week, we've been talking about the steps to getting a business started. Hopefully, you can use them to actually get something going here in the next week or two. These are easy steps, and if you do them, you won't lose any money. All you can do is gain a new opportunity. We've already talked...
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SFS Minute 1067: Find Potential Customers
This week, we are talking about the 5 steps to starting a business. These are the steps you need to do, in this order, to get something up and running, and we have a budget of only $5,000. We're not going to spend a lot of money. We're trying to make this as realistic as possible. So, step number...
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SFS Minute 1066: Find a Problem
This week, I want to talk about the 5 steps to become an entrepreneur. I'm gonna walk through the entire cycle, and if you do these things, by the end of the week, you could have an idea for a real business. I'll tell you the 1st step right after this. The place we're going to start might…
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SFS Minute 1065: Something that Makes Money 24/7
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. This week we are talking about labor, work itself. Yesterday, I suggested that if you were depressed or unhappy, the best thing you can do is work. I know that sounds crazy, but it gets you active, it gets you perhaps out of the house. It...
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SFS Minute 1064: Work Makes Things Better
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. Work, labor, our jobs. These are such politically charged things. Some of us hate our jobs and refuse to think good things about them, and other people have amazing jobs that they're passionate about. The question is, what can I do to make...
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SFS Minute 1062: Work No One Values
This week we are talking about work itself. How we work. Do we work smarter? Can we work harder? What are the important criteria by which we should evaluate the work that we do? I've already pointed out that working harder is not the goal. We don't want to work harder. We want to work less. And…
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SFS Minute 1061: Don't Work Harder
I hope everyone enjoyed their Labor Day weekend, the extra Monday off. It was designed to reward us for our hard work, for doing the labor that keeps the businesses going, and so they created a holiday for the laborers, the workers. And so I want to spend all week talking and thinking about that,...
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SFS Minute 1060: Permission
This week, we've been talking about all of the things that you don't need to start a business. All you really need to do is get off the sofa and quit complaining and do some of the things we've suggested this week, and it doesn't include finding a new idea. Copy someone else's. And it doesn't...
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SFS Minute 1059: Perfect Product
This week, we are talking about 5 things you don't need to start a business. I've seen the entire list. I'm going to add one in right now, a bonus item. You don't need passion. It's great if you have it, but you don't need it to start a business. Maybe you can love the process and not the…
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SFS Minute 1058: MBA
This week, we are talking about things that you don't need to start a business. These all sound counterintuitive and may sound crazy, but I would swear by every one of them. We've already talked about money and new ideas. I'll throw out another one right after this. All right, another thing that...
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SFS Minute 1057: Investors
This week is a little bit different. Instead of talking about things that we need to start a business and be successful, we're talking about things that we don't need to be successful and to start a business. We've already done a couple. I'll share another one right after this. The average person...
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SFS Minute 1056: New Idea
Internet list shows just like this one are all telling you what to do, what to look for, and how to get ready for something.nThis week, I'm going to do the opposite.nI'm going to tell you 5 things you don't need to start a business. I'll start in just a second. One of the things you don't need to...
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SFS Minute 1149: Something People Already Buy and Do It Better
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. There are business opportunities sitting in front of us all the time. We just have to acknowledge them and look around for them. Instead of watching TV for a week or reading a silly magazine, why don't you spend an entire week or month...
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SFS Minute 1148: Industry With Terrible Customer Service
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. This week, we are talking about business ideas that are sitting right there in front of us that we could copy, borrow, or steal and start a great business. And I'm only being a little bit funny when I say copy, borrow, or steal. Of course,...
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SFS Minute 1147: Something Unnecessarily Complicated
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. This week, we are talking about finding business ideas that are right in front of us. Remember my favorite statistic: 93% of businesses are copies of existing businesses. The best place to look is in your list of complaints. Find something...
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SFS Minute 1146: Something People Wait Too Long For
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach.This week, I am talking about how to find a new business idea, especially when they're hiding right there in plain sight. I already talked about starting a business in the areas that people hate. There's always great money to be made there.…
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SFS Minute 1145: Something People Hate
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. Hello, I hope your week is off to a great start. It will cool down here soon. I promise it's not gonna be this hot that much longer. Fall is upon us, I pray. This week, I want to talk about how to find a business right in front of you. 93%...
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SFS Minute 1144:Sleep
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. We have been talking this week about what successful entrepreneurs do differently from everyone else. The question is, can you learn from this and emulate these people and become more like them? I believe strongly that you can. You can...
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SFS Minute 1143: Boring
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. This week, we are talking about what successful entrepreneurs do differently from all of the rest of us. I've already suggested this week that they are much more willing to steal good ideas from other people and improve on them. Of course,...
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SFS Minute 1142: Borrow
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. Every week, a new topic, and the topic this week is how successful entrepreneurs are different from everybody else. I've already suggested that they obsess over systems and not goals and that they embrace rejection because they learn from...
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SFS Minute 1141: Embrace Rejection
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. This week, we are talking about how successful entrepreneurs are different from everyone else. I've already suggested that they rely on systems to an extreme degree. It allows for much more predictable results. That's in their personal…
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SFS Minute 1140: Systems
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. I think we could all agree that successful entrepreneurs do something differently. There's just something different about their mind, their actions, their beliefs that allows them to be so very successful. This week, we're going to go...
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SFS Minute 1049: Opportunity
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. This week, I've been trying to present a happy message that counters what we see in the world today. It is very scary right now, with our 401(k)s going up and down. The stock market is crazy. The price of oil, inflation. We all know the...
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SFS Minute 1048: Speed
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. This week, we are looking at the world from a little bit further away. Instead of getting up close and personal in the microanalysis, we're doing a macro 40,000-foot analysis, trying to show you that the world is actually getting better....
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SFS Minute 1047: Gate Keepers Gone
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. I am arguing this week that the world is better than we all think and feel, and that there's never been more opportunity. There are great things happening at the macro level. And I know it's hard to accept because the micro level of the…
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SFS Minute 1046: AI will create jobs
Welcome to the School for Startups Minute with Jim Beach. These are scary times right now. We have elections coming up, and the other guys are already stealing it. We have a war going on that I don't think any of us really want. The market's going up and down like an NCAA basketball, and my team…
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SFS Minute 1045: Systems Work
This week, I want to talk about some things that will make you happy and feel a little more content. You know, every day right now, it feels like the world is falling apart. We have wars, elections, markets going up and down. Your 401(k) is like a basketball. You turn on the news, and you only…
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SFS Minute 1044: Web
This week, I have been giving away free business ideas, businesses that you can start with absolutely zero money. Not a cent of money is needed to get started. Zero creativity. All you need is the passion to get going and to have a little business of your own. Every day, I've shared a unique…
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SFS Minute 1043: Palets
This week, I am giving away business ideas, ideas that you could start with absolutely no money in the next week and use to make $50,000 in the next year. That is the model. Some of the ideas are a little bit crazy. Today's idea will be a little bit crazy to you. But I know a guy who makes…
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The short vignettes are taken from School for Startups Radio. We release a quick thought to motivate or educate you about a different facet of entrepreneurship every day.
HOSTED BY
[email protected] (Jim Beach)
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