I’ve been able to:
- Help others with company names.
- Be helped with mine.
- Help smooth elevator pitches for other classmates.
- Be helped with mine.
- Sharpen others’ business plans.
- Get help from others to sharpen mine.
- Give advice on my areas of expertise.
- Get advice from others on their areas of expertise.
- Bounce my ideas off willing listeners so they will shape up.
- Listen to others’ ideas to help them take shape.
Not only is it helpful to get the help from classmates, it’s also been fun to see how I can be of use to those at a similar stage.
Too often careers tend to be insular when they could be interconnected.
Often, people want to help others but don’t know how to go about doing so.
This class is helping take down fences around those things so we can all be lifted up together.
Having ready access to people in the same stage of life and business is really becoming a valuable resource. Especially since none of us are necessarily rookies.
We’re just embarking on new adventures.
This article is the 5th in a series to be published about the Start-Up Institute the way Jackson native Mark Wilcox experiences it in April through June of 2016.
