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Quick insights & advice from entrepreneurs on planning, starting, and growing businesses.
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Experienced entrepreneurs offer their most valuable lessons-learned on a variety of essential topics.
Journeys
Entrepreneurs share stories about starting & growing their ventures, being an entrepreneur, & more.
Finding Your Blind Spots As A Small Business Owner
Denise and Fulton Lovin, owners of the Horton Hotel in Boone, NC, provide insight into hiring the right people, work-life balance, and finding your blind spots as a small business owner.
The Importance Of Having An Entrepreneurial Mindset
Greg Boehm, General Manager of Team Industries in Andrews, North Carolina discusses the importance of entrepreneurship and having an entrepreneurial mindset.
Why It’s Sometimes OK To Forgo A Business Plan
John Brinsfield and Fritz Steckler, co-founders of BrickTree Brewing Co. in Lincolnton, reveal exactly how they went about conducting market research, why they decided to forgo a business plan, and more.
Entrepreneur Advice For Managing Risk
Listen to these entrepreneurs talk about their best advice when it comes to managing risk. They discuss writing down your ideal outcomes, finding the right consultants, having alternative streams of income, anticipating every scenario, and more.
Entrepreneur Advice For Growing Your Small Business
Listen to these entrepreneurs talk about the challenges, setbacks, and successes they experienced while growing their businesses. From finding funding to pitching your small business to investors, to knowing when it’s time to hire more team members, they give their advice as business owners with thriving companies.
Entrepreneur Advice For Starting Your Small Business
Listen to these entrepreneurs talk about the challenges, setbacks, and successes they experienced while starting their businesses. From implementing customer policies and procedures to networking and making connections with your community, they give their advice as they look back on when they were just starting out as business owners.
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The Basics of Customer Discovery
This training will give you a foundation for testing your key business model assumptions, confirming your ideal customers, and verifying your product-market fit. You’ll also discover your target audience by learning the fundamentals of who to talk to, what questions to ask, and how to turn responses into actionable steps.
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