“You need to have a thorough Business Plan”.
Welcome to Week 31 of The Daily Grind Business Podcast Weekly Summaries. Each week the interviewees impart their wisdom by sharing their experiences. Learn from them. To connect with them and to receive some free information please click on the links below.
1. Matt Choi is a successful, self-taught, professional trader with over 16 years of experience trading the markets. He is a CMT (Chartered Market Technician) who specializes in trading stocks, ETFs, options, commodity and financial futures, and FOREX.
An entrepreneur at heart, Matt owned and managed a successful car dealership after obtaining his MBA from McMaster University while he traded the markets on the side. He always knew that his passion lies in the financial markets because the opportunities there are limitless, and it can give him the mobile lifestyle that he wants. So he sold his business to focus full time on his trading.
2. Patrick Mackaronis has been an entrepreneur his entire life. While earning his Bachelors Degree in Marketing and Public Relations at Monmouth University, Patrick created a live event promotion and marketing business that grew so successfully that he had to move the office off campus to accommodate his 17 part and full-time employees.
His largest accomplishment to date is Brabble, the Disruptive Technology Company he founded in 2013 that combines social media and e-commerce with valuable patented technology that drives revenue for customers. By working the contacts he’s developed over the years he has raised millions through his network of private investors and investment bankers to execute his entrepreneurial vision.
3. Jeremy Griffin grew up working in construction in Rochester NY for his uncle’s business, Wright Bros. Contractors. Jeremy started working side jobs doing painting and drywall at the age of seventeen. By twenty-one, he was insured as a company and working in his own company. Along the way, Jeremy attended Monroe Community College. He was inspired by a marketing professor to take the plunge and go into the field. By twenty-six, Jeremy transferred to the University of Tampa and finished a marketing degree four years later.
Currently, Jeremy is running a handful of small businesses including; Startup Street, Grizzly Targets, Dropzone Gunner, Elite Realty, and (UNDER CONSTRUCTION): Startup Street Studios, a community podcasting center opened for the entrepreneurs of the Tampa area to help them bring their stories to the masses. Featuring wired phone lines, five mics, full streaming/recording capabilities and lots of coffee!!
4. Bradley Fauteux is an accomplished leader with more than sixteen years of senior management and executive-level experience. Brad has specific experience in the areas of service delivery, organizational design, business development, relationship management, and financial management.
5. Aviv Shahar enables Fortune 500 leaders to create purpose-inspired visions, bring out the best in their people, and catalyze growth. President of Aviv Consulting and the author of the book Create New Futures, Aviv guides executive teams at companies such as Cisco, DuPont, General Mills, Hewlett Packard, Luhansa, and Procter & Gamble as they develop breakthrough collaborations that dramatically accelerate the achievement of their business results.
Aviv’s unique approach to helping these teams create new futures for their companies integrates the process of developing strategic breakthroughs with the evolution of the team’s development. Aviv grew up on a kibbutz in Israel, where he cultivated and internalized his sense of can-do idealism by working in an avocado orchard. Told by a specialist at the age of 8 that he shouldn’t exert himself because of his heart condition, Aviv took up running and became a champion runner by age 13, an experience that shaped a spirit of defiance prepared to overcome impossible odds. He subsequently joined the Israeli Air Force, where his fighter pilot training taught him the importance of thorough planning, flawless execution and the debrief discipline. It was during these years that Aviv adopted his life motto for continual learning: an un-debriefed an action is a wasted action.
#1: Your life is a narrative discovery journey. This is the project of living. Living is the real thing and discovery is the journey.
#2: You are here to create personal growth and to facilitate the growth for people around you. Get engaged in the project of your own personal growth.
#1: Serving customers or partners to solve problems. This is your job description or doing the work.