Business 101 – The Basics

The Prime Directive of Business My first business adventure started with my little red wagon when I was about 11 years old.  In the summer, my dad would buy fresh vegetables from farmers and I’d load up my wagon and pull it around the neighborhood  -- “Fresh Vegetable’s, Fresh from the fields”, I’d say.  Hardly a Fortune 500 endeavor, but the essence of entrepreneurship, I’ve got something you want, and when you buy it I make money. I think of those days often, and the lessons I learned as a teenager.  And what was that all important lesson?  As a mentor would later say to me, it was simple, “Nothing happens until you sell ...