The Flight School for Entrepreneurs

What is your business worth?

2008-02-06T12:07:00.000-08:00

Valuation is something most entrepreneurs and small business owners only think when they are ready to sell there business. However, you should be thinking what value your business will create from day one.

Our fourth workshop in the Flight School program focuses on exit strategies. In this program we will show you how to create value and what is it worth to potential investors.

Join us on February 23rd at Colorado State University for this exciting program

If my business grows; will my cash flow improve or deteriorate?

2007-12-17T08:25:00.000-08:00

Are you experiencing rapid growth? How are you managing your cash flow? How have you handled this business stage?

These are some of the questions we will address during our next Flight School program on January 19th. Many businesses become victims of their own success. Their growth path is faster and more demanding than their business structure can handle.

We will show you how to develop processes that allow for managed growth.

Are you struggling with business growth?

2007-12-13T12:17:00.000-08:00

Our next Flight School program on January 19th at Colorado State University will focus on how to manage your business during rapid growth stages. We will look at how you need to align your business for growth. The keys to understand success is to be able to grow within the resource capabilities of your organization.

Whether you are just starting out or have had a successful business for several years, you will find this program stimulating and challenging.

See our announcement on this blog for more information.

Sell then Build Versus Build then Sell

2007-11-16T20:24:00.001-08:00

At the last Flight School program on November 1oth we discussed the importance of the Entrepreneur to be able to sell. One of our themes focused on the concept of selling before building as a key indicator for the entrepreneur to successfully generate revenue by selling in the start up phase before building their product. Many entrepreneurs tend to build a product before they have identified a target customer or market and this usually results in a failed launch. We have two questions. The first question is for those who sold before building; how successful have you been with this strategy? The next question is for those who have built a product before finding customers. How successful have you been with this strategy? Can you provide us examples of where this has worked?

Why we created this blog

2007-11-16T17:39:00.000-08:00

We have created this blog to provide a forum for entrepreneurs to discuss subjects presented in the Flight School program and to create an on going dialogue in regard to day to day issues that affect their business.