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School for Startups Minutes

jim@schoolforstartups.com (Jim Beach)

The short vignettes are taken from School for Startups Radio. We release a quick thought to motivate or educate you about a different facet of entrepreneurship every day.

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SFS Minute 574: Words

School for Startups Minutes ·

2024/11/17

This week, I want to talk about lobe languages and how understanding them can have a huge impact on your relationship with your family, your kids, your spouse, and with your employees, or your boss. This information comes from a book by Gary Chapman and it describes that every person gives and receives love in one or two of the five ways, one of these ways will appeal to you the most. And when someone does that for you, that's how you feel the most loved today. Words of affirmation are giving

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SFS Minute 573: Morality of the Copy

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2024/11/10

Jesus was born in a Manger because his parents couldn't get a room at the hotel. Conrad Hilton is a famous entrepreneur, but he was a hotelier and started the Hilton Hotel chain. There have been plumbers for hundreds of years, all businesses are copies of something as long as you don't steal copyrights. Trademarks are patents, there is nothing wrong morally by any standard of copying, a business that you see.

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SFS Minute 572: Look Around

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2024/11/10

I was in London for Christmas once and their Christmas trees, there were much, much smaller and I was inspired by that and said, where else could they use small Christmas trees? Another Island Nation in Japan. And so I started a company exporting Southern Fraser fur Christmas trees, that were really short about three feet tall to Japan so they could sit on tabletops. I was inspired by traveling overseas.

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SFS Minute 571: Skip Sports Center

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2024/11/10

If you want to become a great basketball player, you practice basketball. If you want to learn French, you take lessons and practice. If you want to become an entrepreneur you need to start devoting time to it now. Even if you don't own a business, stop watching sports center or the real housewives and spend time studying entrepreneurship. Look at entrepreneurship magazines. Listen to podcasts. Learn how others are out there doing it. And eventually you'll say, I could be that guy, I could copy that

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SFS Minute 570: Look at Work

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2024/11/10

If you want to start a business and are looking for an idea, the best place to look is at your existing job. Could you do your job better than your boss? Better than the guy who runs the place? Do it then start a business, compete with him. The best place to look is where you work.

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SFS Minute 569: 93% Again

School for Startups Minutes ·

2024/11/10

Last week, we talked about a new way to look at entrepreneurship. I propose that anyone can be a successful small business owner, because entrepreneurship is not about creativity risk or passion. Check school for startups.com and go to the minutes section to see the archives of all of those. One of the most controversial aspects of that statement, is that entrepreneurship is not based on creativity. That's the exact opposite of what everyone else in the media will tell you. The best data from the

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SFS Minute 568: Anyone!!

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2024/11/02

When you look at entrepreneurship in this new way, you realize that anyone can be a successful entrepreneur. Maybe not a hundred millionaire but almost anyone can start a business that makes a hundred thousand dollars a year. I'll continue to show you how.

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SFS Minute 567: Passion for Products! NO!

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2024/11/02

Everyone says, you have to have huge passion for your product. I don't agree. I think that passion for being an entrepreneur is enough. I love what I do and that gets me up in the morning, not the product that I sell.

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SFS Minute 566: Risk is Bad

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2024/11/02

Where do you get the money to start the shocking? Truth is you already have it, do not spend more than 5 thousand dollars to start your new business. If you do your chances to succeed go down.

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SFS Minute 565: Creativity is 93%!

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2024/11/02

Millions of people want to be entrepreneurs to be business owners, but can't figure out their unique idea. They're waiting for a lightning bolt from God. Well, here's the amazing statistic, 93 percent of businesses are copies of existing businesses 93. If you want to start a business, your best chances are to copy. What someone else is already doing? Do it legally, don't steal anything.

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SFS Minute 564: 86%!

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2024/11/02

Everyone wants to be wealthy. Well, mot people do the interesting follow-on question is. How did they get wealthy? How do you get rich in America today, I've asked big rooms full of people that exact questions for many years and the answers are almost always the same. A large percent of the people inherited their wealth, then there were a lot of doctors and lawyers and some inventors and celebrities and things like that. Most people assume that the number one, way to get wealthy is to inherit it

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SFS Minute 563: Candy!

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2024/10/27

According to Candystore.com, the least popular Halloween candy. Is candy corn? Some years it pops into the top 10 but most years it wins the least liked candy the most popular five candies are Eminem's hot tamales Skittles Sour Patch Kids. And at number one my favorite Reese's, peanut butter cups. There's just something about that. Perfect combination of chocolate and peanut butter that make Halloween special. I love the Reese's cup and I hope you had a great Halloween.

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SFS Minute 562: Thanks Illinois

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2024/10/27

Why is the pumpkin associated with Halloween? Well, as with so many things, it comes from the federal government in the 1920s the Department of Agriculture promoted. The pumpkin around late October to get rid of excess inventory and it's stuck. Now, almost half of our pumpkins come from Illinois where they can grow, 37 000 pumpkin pounds on one acre. Happy Halloween, everyone.

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SFS Minute 561: Second after Christmas

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2024/10/27

Halloween used to be our 5th most commercial holiday, is now number #2 right after Christmas

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SFS Minute 560: Trick or Treat Patrol

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2024/10/27

By the 1920s, Halloween had become its most mischievous. Putting the toilet paper in your neighbor's trees, and all of those sort of things trick-or-treating started as a way of patrolling the neighborhood to Tamp down the pranksters.

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SFS Minute 559: Husband Hunting

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2024/10/27

This week we celebrate Halloween, so I thought I would spend a little bit of time and learn some more about the holiday. I was shocked by what I found and I'm going to share some of those things with you this week, for example, did you know that Halloween has a marriage component to it? I'll share that with you, right after this. According to history.com in the 18th century Halloween had many connections with getting married. In fact, bobbing for apples, was a game to find out who would get married

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SFS Minute 558: Keep It Healthy

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2024/10/19

Today, despite all of its benefits Studies have shown that compartmentalization can be taken to far. In fact, your relationship with your wife, does affect your ability to perform your job at work and so we can put them in compartments but we can't totally separate them. Remember your overall health is very important and don't sacrifice it for one box.

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SFS Minute 557: Journaling

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2024/10/19

Journaling is a great way to keep your compartments separate. If you have issues in one part of your life write them down, get it out on a piece of paper and then close that box move on and by writing it down, it will be so much easier to focus on the new better parts of the day that are coming up.

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SFS Minute 556: Mindfulness

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2024/10/19

Cultivate your mindfulness, practice focusing on what you are supposed to be thinking about. And don't let your mind wander, if you are at dinner, focus on the food and how delicious it is not on what the kids did, bad at school. By focusing your mind, you will help create the compartments that will make you happier.

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SFS Minute 555: Routines and Rituals

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2024/10/19

Establish routines and rituals that help make each compartment more distinct. For example, when you come home from work, change your clothes, symbolically you are changing your mind. What you think about by changing your clothes? This routine will help you transition from one compartment to the other compartments. And eventually your mind will be trained not to cross-compartmentalize and keep one area away from the rest.

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