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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 ...