School for Startups Minutes

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 please, don't get caught up waiting for your great idea. Be proactive and go copy someone else's. It's t...

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 business, there are actually things that can be, as a matter of fact, are more important than a great idea....

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 an idea and move forward because there are things more important. I'll show one of those right after t...

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 example, a paying customer, cash in hand, is an even better validation. I'll share another great example th...

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 great idea. I'm going to share one every day this week, and I'll get started right after this. One thing b...

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 spending time on that or not. And we've gone over some crazy ways, hopefully some alternative-thinking w...

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 this week, I have shared some ways to do that. I'll share another one right after this. One crazy way to...

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 another customer-based way to find even more customers. I'll explain right after this. Another crazy way t...

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 you and everyone else are getting and learn from that and understand what the customer sees as important...

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 new customers. I'll start right after this. One crazy way to get new customers is to look at the bad rev...

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 our sample business will do for customers, and we have asked for their business. And now we have 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 about the 1st 3 steps, and we're ready for step number four. I'll tell you what it is right after this...

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 one, we've already talked about: find a problem. Don't go find a business idea or a product that you l...

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 surprise you. It's not with a business idea. Instead, we're going to start with a problem. People spend way to...

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 changes what your mind is thinking about, and it gives you a new reason to exist and to be happy and to...

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 my life better using the work that I have to do to make money? And there are so many things that you c...

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 so that should be one of our stated goals. Stop doing work that no one values. If you're making a video...

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, work itself, the idea. I'm going to evaluate some of the basic premises that we hold dear about labor....

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 include raising a bunch of money. Bootstrap for as little money as you can. There's one more thing on our...

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 product. Anyway, back to the official list now. I have one more. I'm going to give it to you right after this...

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 you don't need before you start a business is an MBA. I had one, and nothing that I learned in MBA scho...

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 on the street assumes that entrepreneurs start their business with millions of dollars. It's just the...

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 start a business is an idea. That's right. That sounds crazy, but it is true. 93% of businesses come f...

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 focusing on looking for business ideas around you? I promise you will start to find one. Find something th...

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, we're not going to steal any copyrights, trademarks, or patents, but we are going to look at great bus...