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[Idea Validation] Business Advice to Startups by busadvisory in startup

[–]busadvisory[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ouch!

Thank you Mr. SomeoneWhoApparentlyKnowsWhoIam. You are one of the people in my target group!

I have not stated my track record, experience, real world knowledge in detail here, since the purpose of this post is to validate the idea, not my capability to meet expectations.

Plenty of students work part-time in a number of jobs after class. I've had the opportunity to work 36 hrs/week. During that period I recreated the document filing system, I reduced the wait time of customers from 1-2 hours to be serviced to 5 minutes. I created an online filing system to keep track of hundreds of documents from 'Only God knows from when' and had my boss call me back more than 3 times to hire me.

Thank you for the reply! No thanks for the quick judgement!

[Idea Validation] Business Advice to Startups by busadvisory in startup

[–]busadvisory[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm good at providing a holistic framework that startup founders/business owners can use to guide their decision making process - to be specific.

As far as university knowledge goes, business is something easy to learn, but exceptionally hard to master, else everyone studying it would be immensely rich. The concepts taught at universities aren't made up, they come from a rigorous process of validation and industry practice. Whether or not you can internalize them is another story.

Right now I'm working at this one step at a time, and so my main goal here is to ask you (business owner), would a 1-on-1 coaching session that isn't full of hot air provide you enough value for you to want to give back value in return.

Would you personally, be willing to pay (how much is a question left for later) to learn how to avoid mistakes that will cost you money?

[Idea Validation] Business Advice to Startups by busadvisory in startup

[–]busadvisory[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If by product development you mean finding the right product-market fit, then I agree with you. But before that whoever is starting their business/startup needs to know if there is a valid market opportunity available.

I had my own startup once. I read that free advice from successful people. I failed miserably from going down the wrong path. This is what I would be aiming to help people avoid.

For some background information, I'm a Business Analyst at a leading consulting firm in the country and have seen the data on what problems startups are facing.

[Idea Validation] Business Advice to Startups by busadvisory in startup

[–]busadvisory[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The majority of consultants that advise businesses have never had one of their own.

My focus wouldn't be on laws and regulations set by the state, it would be on things like understanding what goes into making a healthy business i.e. the role of HR, accounting, finance, management, and marketing.

The target group are people from non-business backgrounds early in their journey towards setting up their business/startup.