Today we are talking about the 5 Ways to Determine Your Target Customer!

No greater entrepreneur than Walt Disney. Power of partnering. Need to have people that are specialists in their areas and can say no, give advice. Power of imagination. "It is kind of fun to do the impossible" - Walt Disney. Building a Team. "It takes people to make the dream a reality" - Walt Disney.

Today we are talking about the Pareto Principle! The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of the causes.

Today we are talking about 5 Business Fundamentals! 

Steven Kotler is a New York Times bestselling author, an award-winning journalist and the cofounder and director of research of the Flow Genome Project. His most recent work, Stealing Fire, was a national bestseller and nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Steven’s work have been translated into over 40 languages and appeared in over 100 publications, including The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Wired and TIME.

https://www.stevenkotler.com/

FANTASTIC interview today with the CEO of Bounce, Cody Candee!

Here is more on Cody: 

"Founder of Bounce, a marketplace for daily storage in local hotels & shops with 10's of thousands of customers.

Previously was a product manager for various products reaching 10M+ users. My work in technology brought me to the UK, India, and my home base, San Francisco.

I also love to explore new cultures - I've traveled to 50 countries and lived abroad for about 3 years. This fuels my passion for building products for worldwide scale.

My life's work is to create products that enable people to live more freely in the cities that they're in. "

https://usebounce.com/

Nelson is the founder and CEO of Cadence, the leading digital securitization and investment platform for private credit. He is a 3x startup founder with several years of experience at the top investment management firms, including Bank of America and BlackRock. Prior to Cadence, he founded a strategy consulting firm specializing in helping companies build products and raise capital for growth, creating over $1B in equity value. He currently serves as an advisor to an ultra-high net worth family office and is an active angel investor, with notable investments including BlockFi, Cadre, Care/Of, Clover Health, dv01, Tala, and Uala. 

Today we are talking about When to Go to College and NOT to Go!

Infrastructure, sounds boring right? A big mistake business owners make is to extract all the capital from their business. I suggest setting aside 10% of revenue for emergencies but also to invest in infrastructure. Your vehicles, uniforms, office space reflects your business.  Are they run down, beat up, dirty? This will lower morale and what you can charge for your services.

Welcome back to Saturday Mentoring! Today hard work is overrated!