The reason your projects don't finish on time is because you haven't made scheduling, meeting, and communication standards a priority in your company. However, the investors - called equity owners or equity partners - may sell their ownership to other parties. But it s still just a bid, and you know what happens to bids in negotiations. Providing you act professionally right from the start, no one need ever know.
Spotting Trouble Early
In
marketing, we use
the term mass markets and niche markets to describe how broad or specific the group of people we are trying to reach to sell our product or service is. These
are components of
service that have become increasingly important, particularly for high-technology products. Shoot
for a specific
return on equity and on your sales efforts, marketing, advertising, customers, services, products, time, and energy. Effective
leaders have an
inspiring vision that motivates their people to make big results happen.
Start the day with positive encouragement to everyone around you
Your
business plan should
reassure readers that you have your bases covered in these important professional positions. Are
you a motivator
or de-motivator? Defining
clear boundaries is
important to produce measurements, but setting boundaries in interdependent relationships and networks is always problematic, and to some extent, arbitrary. An
essential part of
this is getting to know more about existing and prospective vendors and clients.
If you can?t run, then walk
It's
hard to make
people responsible when they don't have a clear picture of what you want. No,
you won t
have to be stuck in a cubicle all day long, eat lunch at the office cafeteria, spend hours in traffic during rush hour, hit the gym at the same time as everyone else and wait in line for the next available treadmill. Suppliers,
who naturally would
like their customers to order more and more, are likely to be quite interested in your growth prospects. Most
plans probably receive
no more than a glance from a given venture capitalist before being rejected; others get just a cursory inspection.
A lazy person's guide to Production
Your
company is up
and running and you have people employed to help you keep it going. Even
then you ll
probably get a chance to work out the problem. Leadership
has nothing to
do with working hard, setting a good example, or owning a company. It
doesn t necessarily
take a lot of money to make a lot of money, but it does take some.
Price too high and lose customers
Functional
obsolescence means a
device can no longer perform its intended function or cannot perform it efficiently or safely, and should be replaced. And
the really successful
ones fall down a lot! Are
you scared that
people won t like you, your ideas, or your product? A
risk premium is
added to compensate the lender for assuming the risk that the principal will not be repaid.