Entrepreneur Soundoff!
Your first source for UNvarnished, politically-INcorrect information about how to launch a startup and manage a profitable small business! Podcast host, Randal Wimmer, is a serial entrepreneur who has stepped on EVERY landmine in the startup minefield, at least once and some of them more times than he cares to admit! However, these hard-learned lessons were instrumental to his success. Randal's companies have made hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, been listed on both the INC 500 Fastest Growing Companies List and the Washington Tech Fast 50 List on multiple occassions, and culminated in successful market exits. Randal is also the author of the Amazon Bestselling book, GOOD ENOUGH! To Launch Your Company. (Author website: RandalWimmer.com ) Presently, Randal is helping aspiring entrepreneurs launch successful companies. He helps people avoid the "franchise trap" by providing entrepreneurs with franchising alternatives with all the benefits of a franchise and none of the royalties, constraints, and hassle. ( ReadyforRevenue.com ) He helps GovCon companies rapidly grow in the FedGov contracting space. ( GovernmentContractingAcademy.com ) Plus, he helps startups and small businesses obtain the corporate credentials to achieve market penetration and rapidly grow. (ISOCertificationGroup.com )
Episodes
Most aspiring entrepreneurs fail not because they lack talent or drive, but because their business plan fails them. Instead of a strategic roadmap built for their specific vision, they fill out a generic template that resembles a form more than a plan. Randal Wimmer — Navy veteran, serial entrepreneur, and author of Good Enough! to Launch Your Company — proposes a different approach. One that significantly improves your probability...
It's an obvious cliche, but that does not make it true. Sitting in the corner office as your company's founder and CEO is a very lonely position. You're there to help your employees stay focused on the mission, but who is helping you stay focused on the things that only you can do? Nobody. You must do it yourself. But how? Listen to how I overcame this frequently ignored challenge of creating forcing mechanisms ...
During GCA's Free Proposal Writing Bootcamp (you can register/watch recordings here: https://www.crowdcast.io/@businessgrowth ) an attendee asked me how any small business could afford to pursue corporate differentiators. My answer made me feel bad, but I committed to give her honesty rather than a rosy-colored deceit.
There are 140,000+ small businesses registered to do work in the Federal Government industry. As a startup...
The ISO/IEC 42001 AI Management System framework provides a clear roadmap for governing AI systems in a way that both commercial and government customers increasingly expect. For solution providers, this represents not only a strategic differentiator—but also a new service opportunity.
Through The ISO Certification Group, we offer an AI Governance-in-a-Box solution that completes approximately 99% of the work required to a...
Artificial intelligence is everywhere—but customers are no longer impressed by capability alone. They’re asking a far more important question:
Is this AI solution appropriate for my use case?
In this episode, we break down Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A) and why it has become a critical standard for evaluating modern tech solutions, particularly AI-enhanced systems used in high-consequence ...
Register Here: https://crowdcast.io/c/7hgi43n0a0t6
To celebrate Government Contracting Academy's 5 year Anniversary, they're offering one of their most popular training programs, GCA's GovCon Bootcamp, a $1,500 value, for FREE...with no strings attached.
Join them February 2–6, 7–9 PM ET, for interactive classroom sessions designed to help:
• Launch a GovCon startup
• Jumpstart an existi...
The New Year is the IDEAL time to set goals, incorporate new habits and change to a better version of ourselves. However, most entrepreneurs create New Year Resolutions that work against their goals...not towards them.
This podcast takes a deep dive into how to use your New Year Resolutions to become a successful entrepreneur on DAY 1 of the New Year!
Becoming a successful small business owner is nontrivial and takes time. You ne...
Over the past two decades, I've launched led and sold multiple GovCon companies and during this time, I've discovered that every struggling small business in the GovCon market space...is struggling because of one or more of the SAME ten mistakes.
Here they are…
•They don't address the assumption that everybody in the GovCon industry makes…and that is that they’re risky to work with just because they’re...
Over the past two decades, I've launched led and sold multiple GovCon companies and during this time, I've discovered that every struggling small business in the GovCon market space...is struggling because of one or more of the SAME ten mistakes.
Here they are…
•They don't address the assumption that everybody in the GovCon industry makes…and that is that they’re risky to work with just because they’re...
Over the past two decades, I've launched led and sold multiple GovCon companies and during this time, I've discovered that every struggling small business in the GovCon market space...is struggling because of one or more of the SAME ten mistakes.
Here they are…
•They don't address the assumption that everybody in the GovCon industry makes…and that is that they’re risky to work with just because they’re...
Over the past two decades, I've launched led and sold multiple GovCon companies and during this time, I've discovered that every struggling small business in the GovCon market space...is struggling because of one or more of the SAME ten mistakes.
Here they are…
•They don't address the assumption that everybody in the GovCon industry makes…and that is that they’re risky to work with just because they’re a small b...
Over the past two decades, I've launched led and sold multiple GovCon companies and during this time, I've discovered that every struggling small business in the GovCon market space...is struggling because of one or more of the SAME ten mistakes.
Here they are…
•They don't address the assumption that everybody in the GovCon industry makes…and that is that they’re risky to work with just because they’re a small b...
Over the past two decades, I've launched led and sold multiple GovCon companies and during this time, I've discovered that every struggling small business in the GovCon market space...is struggling because of one or more of the SAME ten mistakes.
Here they are…
•They don't address the assumption that everybody in the GovCon industry makes…and that is that they’re risky to work with just because they’re a small b...
Over the past two decades, I've launched led and sold multiple GovCon companies and during this time, I've discovered that every struggling small business in the GovCon market space...is struggling because of one or more of the SAME ten mistakes.
Here they are…
•They don't address the assumption that everybody in the GovCon industry makes…and that is that they’re risky to work with just because they’re a small b...
Over the past two decades, I've launched led and sold multiple GovCon companies and during this time, I've discovered that every struggling small business in the GovCon market space...is struggling because of one or more of the SAME ten mistakes.
Here they are…
•They don't address the assumption that everybody in the GovCon industry makes…and that is that they’re risky to work with just because they’re a small b...
Over the past two decades, I've launched led and sold multiple GovCon companies and during this time, I've discovered that every struggling small business in the GovCon market space...is struggling because of one or more of the SAME ten mistakes.
Here they are…
•They don't address the assumption that everybody in the GovCon industry makes…and that is that they’re risky to work with just because they’re a small b...
Over the past two decades, I've launched led and sold multiple GovCon companies and during this time, I've discovered that every struggling small business in the GovCon market space...is struggling because of one or more of the SAME ten mistakes.
Here they are…
•They don't address the assumption that everybody in the GovCon industry makes…and that is that they’re risky to work with just because they’re a small b...
Here it is...The Holy Grail of Small Business Set Aside STRATEGIES for consistent and rapid growth! Although it took me many, MANY years to figure it out...the strategy is remarkably simple and intuitive.
1. Find Markets Where Your Set Aside is Under-represented (And there are MANY of them...just check the SBA Small Business Utilization Scorecard for each FedGov Agency for your specific set aside.
2. Differentiate your c...
Artificial Intelligence is one of the most transformative technologies of our age. It is a force-multiplier… an accelerant…a gamechanger. It will help you achieve your wildest dreams if you successfully harness its power.
On the other hand. Whatever you knew before. Whatever you did before to be successful, here's a good chance that it is now obsolete.
Business as usual means...out of business.
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If the perspectives of those you listen to and surround yourself with don’t share the same entrepreneurial goals and ambitions, you may find yourself falling behind in your own efforts. Surround yourself with mentors and people that share your same entrepreneurial energy!
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To get on the fast track to government contracting success, visit our website at:
https://governmentcontractingacademy.com/
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