Garage Entrepreneurs

We’ve assembled some top tips for young entrepreneurs from a few of our dedicated members. We asked them: What would be your best advice for a young, passionate entrepreneur or would-be entrepreneur? Joe Ornato – Founder, Ornato Group Create a backstage process.  Write down all the steps that it will take to give your customer the ultimate experience.  Natural sales people tend to “do” what they “know” intuitively, without getting into a well-defined process.  Building a process allows for: consistency, duplication, […] Continue Reading Best Advice for Young Entrepreneurs

I met with a very successful entrepreneur to ask her some questions. We talked about what it takes to run a business and she shared with me what she considered to be the biggest lesson she has learned from one of her mentors. That lesson is that everything is always your fault. She told me about a situation from when she was working for her mentor’s company and she was responsible for leading a team. One member of that team was […] Continue Reading It’s All Your Fault

While contributing and becoming actively involved in online communities, it is difficult at times not to try and connect with anyone and everyone. It seems like everyone has an interesting profile and all members are working on projects that seem interesting. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people that you can learn from on the internet, whether it is from reading blogs or actually messaging these individuals; but here is the challenge: How do you open yourself up to others […] Continue Reading The Real You

Today I met with a very respectable entrepreneur. We talked about what it takes to run a business and she shared with me what she considered to be the biggest lesson she has learned from one of her mentors. That lesson is that everything is always your fault. She told me about a situation from when she was working for her mentor’s company and she was responsible for leading a team. One member of that team was not putting 100% into […] Continue Reading It’s All Your Fault!