by Danco Sotirovski
In todays marketplace competition has gotten fierce. The way people and business have moved forward is really mindboggling if you step back to only about 6 - 9 years ago. I remember the times before walmart and a time where business’ started slow and grew steadily. Those times have changed dramtically in the last decade. It used to take a business a long time to get information and then to communicate and make relations with companies and clients. That is no longer the case. With our economy in the position that it is in now we kinda scratch our heads and say how did we get here. We look back and say well wasn’t the internet supposed to make us all rich, and who cares if China and India manufacture everything over there. Well brothers and sisters we need to reevaluate where we are and where we want and have to go.
With all of these factors of the transition of the industrial age to the information and the opening of free trade, we have been put into this tornado of multiple facets of turbulence. You have politicians preaching about how small business creates all these new jobs and will be our saviour for our future. I believe that too, however our governments just regurgetate what futurists talk about and then remark on the what our country needs to do. Well that’s positive thinking for sure, but we are left with a massive void.
The void is that in America opening a small business has actually become more difficult in many ways. It’s not really the cost to open or the paperwork, and really not even the taxes. It’s the fact that competition is so fierce in every aspect, that small business and start-ups don’t have the proper relationships and current know how to navigate the economic waters of today. I have seen a ton of and actually participated in many start-up discussions, as well as, seminars. They all kinda spew the same stuff. You need a business plan and a marketing plan. Then you have to follow this formula and you should succeed with a little luck and a ton of hard work usually equating to about $1 an hour. Well that’s not the America i grew up in, and not you either.
I grew up in an America where if you saved and took a little risk and some hard work you could open a small business and prosper. There were alot of untapped opportunities. Well today there are still plenty of opportunities, but what all these business gurus are preaching the stuff of yesteryear. In todays world you need to create and use realtionships in ways you never ever before thought you could. In todays world more than ever you need to be tied into the modern matrix, then move at the speed of light to not get knocked down by weak cash flow and destroyed by competitive forces.
The only way to build fast and hit the ground running and to build multiple tiered relationships and out do your competition and outpace and out sell your cash flow monkey is to connect socially and with the right team. Government and Education in many ways and probally has always been one or two steps behind what’s really going on now.
Business Incubators lead us to all the cylinders hitting at the same time. I mean in a business incubator you have the potential to massively outdo you competition, depending on the incubator of course. Someone looking to start-up or take to the next level a small business really needs to be connected with a dream team of sorts and Im sorry government always is lagging behind and has really a short look at return on investment.
There are many different kinds of Community and Business Incubators. The trouble is most are linked to some non-profit or educational facility or even possible a rent my space and ill make you some coffee concepts. Incubators have been around for a long time the first opened some 50 years ago, so the concept has always kinda bin there with, small groups pooling together to market and get things done. It just seems that the old model doesn’t work like it should.
The new model better model is for profit community business incubators, that supply critical value added modules that help you really shift your business into a different realm. Most small business owners are stuck in a rut, without the proper tools and without the proper peers and support structure. They are just kinda out there. Some make it, most don’t. They spend to much and don’t make enough. Finally busting about by cash flow collapse.
I believe that the best model has is the creative+technical business incubator. Where both creative and technical merge to support start-ups. By creative I mean writers, designers, artists are mingling with programmers and super technicals. Then when a start-up idea is brought in to be evaluated or a applicant has come to possibly occupy and become a incubatae they are quickly and cooly transformed metamophised into a butterfly like no other. That’s why I like WorkFly.com’s business model. A business incubator, along with having the creatives+technical+mental training needed to outthink your competition. They will be ions behind what this incubator will pump out, and fast too.
Workfly.com’s model bring’s forth the power and energy of the entrepreaneur to a new level. The other factors that are critical to every successful launch are the incentives for the contributors. Our economy works best really on incentives more than anythin. So, when you combine these factors (creative+techinical+mental+incentives) you will have more, better, faster incubation. It’s like taking that egg and instead of waiting 6 weeks for it to hatch it can hatch in 3 days, better, cooler and hipper than any other output or competitor.
Think about it, the companies that have done amazing have the best creative, technical and best incentives for members involved. Apple case in point. The understand the value of these factors. They have blown away everybody with their creative fore thought. They in essence incubated ideas. They incubated their little business’. Funny thing too is that what began as no market share became their primary mover and pendulum of the whole company mantra.
So, business incubation can become what it should. Unfortunately, most incubators will not provide the key elements needed to surpass and lead the pack. If they offer a copier, coffee and a fill in the blanks business plan, that start-up is finished.
The WorkFly.com model wins hands down. It offers the nurturing support to the business, it will have the understanding and the connectivity of a nimble company that will move start-ups into the wows of business and social change. Business incubators of the past are dead. The government just meets the status quo. The money spent from governments and education non-profit incubators will be a good study or thesis for someones phd.
Incubators need the matrix offered by a Workfly.com. The other peice of the puzzle is not only velocity of launch but the vehicles and synergy to propel business ideas into social and economic changes. Forums, discussions, arguments, and yes my friends Chaos. Then you will get CREATIONS! That matter.
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