I just was connected to Sharon Pinder of The Pinder Group. She’s one of us–started her last two businesses After 55, in addition to teaching an online course for University of Maryland University College on “Women as Entrepreneurs.” She is a clear thinker with lots of experience, and I asked her to give me three points she teaches her students about being entrepreneurs. Here they are–if you want to learn more about Sharon or her course, click the links!
- Access to opportunity: Is age, gender or race a factor? How can you maximize those factors to your benefit?
- Access to capital: Make sure your business is well-capitalized and know where you will get the capital.
- Be knowledgeable about being an entrepreneur: Know what it takes to start, build and grow a business. Work FOR your business, not IN it!
Good points, Sharon! Too many times we just start on a whim because we have read about some super-successful person who did . . . probably if we scratched the surface, we would find a different story. There are no born entrepreneurs–there are successful entrepreneurs who have succeeded because of Sharon’s pointers.
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