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Tool #1: Customer Value Prop Worksheet*

This worksheet will help you define your target customer, describe their goals and objectives and explain how your product or service helps fulfill their needs...

Unit #1 / Value Prop: What Does the Customer Need?*

Customer-driven growth is faster, smarter and more efficient. But even a founder who knows the problem won't naturally think like a customer any more. Here are tips and a worksheet...

Introducing Our Smart-Growth Program

Learn more & get started with our tested, totally free 8-part incubator series. You'll get practical tips and tools to help you plan, prioritize and launch or grow your business...

Profile: Coastal Technologies

Learn how this family-owned business applies cutting-edge technology to nature's own solutions to help prevent coastal erosion and what they've learned about managing a fast-growing company...

The Operational Advantages of Bootstrapping

Every business can benefit from bootstrapping principles. Discover how lean growth strategies improve product development, staffing, sales, and operations by fostering discipline, creativity, and resilience....

Business Owners Share Why It’s Worth It (video)

It’s not easy—but it’s worth it. In this video, real business owners open up about why they chose the entrepreneurial path, what motivates them and why they love what they...

What Real Business Owners Have Learned (video)

Running a business teaches you more than any book or course ever could -- about business and yourself. In this powerful video, real entrepreneurs reflect on the most important lessons...

Business Owners: What Outsiders Get Wrong (Video)

They think you don't work or work all the time, that it's glamorous or sheer drudgery. Outsiders misunderstand so much about what it's really like to run a business. In...

Don’t Sugarcoat Tough Conversations

Delivering difficult news is never easy, but sugarcoating the truth can lead to confusion, resentment, and poor performance. Direct communication fosters trust, and —even in hard moments—is ultimately an act...