How Entrepreneurs Went from Garage to Fortune 500
If you are starting a business in your garage and you hear a few people laughing, remember these five entrepreneurs who started in a garage and moved on to the Fortune 500:
Regardless of whether your business is the next Fortune 500 company or simply one that dominates locally, this is at least a place to start. Along the way be prepared for resistance and unbelievers. While your idea and plan may not be perfect, there is no doubt that those who have achieved little will NOT be the best resource for advice and counsel.
While this infographic may only scratch the surface, it is a reminder to stay hopeful. Everyone along the way has doubts and misgivings. Hopefully your team and support system will empower. It starts with focus to be the absolute best ... what are you best at?
Starting your fortune 500 company:
1. Develop a business plan and a vision for the brand that you are passionate about
2. Along with a team of dependable leadership, spend weeks and months listening to the needs and wants of your customers
3. Focus on the corporate culture, “a blend of the values, beliefs, taboos, symbols, rituals and myths all companies develop over time”, as well as the vision and personality (logo, dress code, etc.) of your business
4. Look for improvements so that you can meet and exceed your customers and employees expectations
5. Test new theories and practices to stay ahead of your competition
6. Develop a marketing plan convincing customers to purchase your products or services over your competitors, by making your product more valuable or unique than your competitor’s product
7. Increase profits and income
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The Importance of Small Business
Small business constitutes a major force in the global and local economy
Job Creation
The majority of all workers first entered the business world working for small businesses.
Opportunities for Women and Minorities
Small business is the portal through which many people enter the economic mainstream. Business ownership allows individuals, including women and minorities, to achieve financial success, as well as pride in their accomplishments.
Innovation
Given the financial resources available to large businesses, you’d expect them to introduce virtually all the new products that hit the market. According to the U.S Small business Administration (SBA), small companies develop more patents per employee than do larger companies.
What Small Businesses Do for Big Businesses
Small firms complement large firms in a number of ways. They supply many of the components needed by big companies. For example, the U.S. automakers depend on more than 1,700 suppliers to provide them with the parts needed to make their cars.
Funding and expanding small businesses
Using finance to aid growth can be smart and potentially explosive, and there are many ways to grow a small business. Funding it is a big part of the puzzle and it can help any promising company go from zero to 100 in a very short time.
Does your mission statement define why your company exists?
A mission statement can be a powerful tool to help ensure your company remains consistently excellent and focused. It is your "why" - it's why you exist. Your strategy. Your core. Your vision. Your identity. Your culture. And it can steer you toward success.
7 Massive Companies Started in Tiny Unexpected Spaces
Are you working out of your garage, in your bedroom, a motel room, or a friends space that they aren’t using on the weekends? Listen, it happens. We all have to start somewhere – the big thing is that you started. So many people have had ideas for companies and just sat on them because taking that initial leap is too risky – but you did. And you’re in good company.
Trillion and billion-dollar-companies started in garage (or why we belive is small businesses)
The heroic story of going from somebody’s garage to being worth billions has got to be one of the most compelling tales within entrepreneur and startup folklore.
