Poor planning is one of the top reasons businesses like startups and nonprofits fail in the first year, according to one Investopedia article.

Does this sound like someone you know?

A well-meaning person with a startup or nonprofit idea gets into business with a passion for their cause without considering how they’re going to fund it and build their team.

They open a new restaurant because it sounds fun, but they didn’t understand the business or consider the startup costs.

They start a charity organization because they love helping kids, but they failed to create a business plan to organize, finance, and grow their operation.

For months or years, they invest their hard-earned money, work late nights, and struggle to keep their business going, all while feeling stressed, losing sleep, and missing valuable time with their families.

The thing is: They have what it takes to pull it off.

It’s just that no one has ever given them the simple tools and advice they needed to start their business on the right path, so they don’t have to sacrifice their lives (and the lives of their families) for their startup dreams.

What’s more, many startup and nonprofit leaders hate the idea of learning the administrative, marketing, or sales sides of their businesses because they haven’t yet learned to associate those aspects of entrepreneurship with the passion they have for their cause.

Ricardo Casas, Co-Chair of SCORE Miami-Dade, offers free business mentorships, workshops, and resources to help small business startups and nonprofits thrive with the business knowledge and tools they need to feel empowered, love their businesses, and be successful, even if they don’t have any funding or prior business experience.

In this episode, Mr. Casas will share about some of the vital skills you can work on right now to be a successful entrepreneur without additional stress. He’ll also share about some of the tools and resources you can get from SCORE right now for free, so you don’t have to spend your hard-earned money on expensive software or business consultants without first knowing whether your business is viable.

Learn more about SCORE Miami-Dade at: https://miamidade.score.org/

Episode host: Daniel Puder, CEO of My Life My Power.
Editing by: Edward Davis
Recorded at the Center for Social Change.
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Music: The Vendetta by Stefan Kartenberg (c) copyright 2018 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/JeffSpeed68/58628 Ft: Apoxode

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