The next level in HR and Recruitment solutions
Taking the Taking the
Entrepreneurial Entrepreneurial LeapLeap
Built on the right foundation Built on the right foundation while thinking in longer stepswhile thinking in longer steps
• Project/On Demand HR and Recruitment firm
• Company founded in 2001 by Industry Leaders
• National in scope
• Outside-In® Company
– Customer centric– Culture led business– Award winning
Why MeMe?
• Serial not Cereal• Fourth generation• Key influences• Role models• “The Bricklayer”
Which founderfounder are you?
• The Bricklayer
• Technical Expert
• Serial
• The Builder
• The Operator
• Playing House
LearningLearning from my experiences…
• Sitting under an apple tree...
• The business plan conundrum
• What does it really take?
• How will you fund your dream?
• Once upon a practice
• If I had to do it over…
Sitting under an apple treeapple tree…
• Know your limitations
• Congruence
• Can you evolve with your business?
• Do you want to?
• Why are you in business?
• Go meet one
The Business Plan ConundrumConundrum
• Backing into your business
• Prove your idea out pre-investment!
• Get closer to your customer
• Understand what long range means today
• Run your business in real time
• Rigid process versus flexible needs
Conundrum - co nun drum - ⋅ ⋅ noun
1. a riddle, the answer to which involves a pun or play on words, as What is black and white and read all over? A newspaper.
2. anything that puzzles.
What does it really really take?
• We romanticize the entrepreneur?
• Capital crunch
• Mitigate risks
• Entrepreneurial Ironman?
• Confidence/Humility
• Balance today with tomorrow…
• Knowledge of yourself
• Student of stages of business
How will you fundfund your dream?
• What can you stomach?
• Partners (Compromise)
• Debt: Preserve ownership interest
• Equity: Loss of control
Once Upon a practice
• Find some informal advisors
• Sell through partners and alliances
• Google it.
• Your goal is to tell your story
• Protect your customers
Keys to getting through the Entrepreneurial LabyrinthEntrepreneurial Labyrinth…
• Take off the rose colored glasses
• Be prepared to be a generalist
• Be a change maker (inside and out)
• Learn when to let go
• Create a high value work environment
• Don’t get caught playing house
• Go against the grain
• Have a dictionary handy: fortitude, perseverance, patience
Key to successsuccessBuild your business from the Outside-in®!
1. Turn yourself outward to the customer- Listen for
your market!
2. Fill a niche and know it will change…
3. Get help from those that have been there before!
