It takes a dream, hard work and balls

Francisco — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:06:47 +0000

Most of us have a dream of what would we do if we wouldn’t be working for “THE MAN”, but few of us actually take the bull by the horns and peruse that proverbial bull; Today I want to talk about someone who did.

Cavata Clothing Co. was born out of a dream of a really young entrepreneur, that once asked me: “What do you think of this idea?” to which I replied with my common saying of “you got nothing; so you got nothing to lose…” Right out of College, starting Grad School and her first real job, she decided that she didn’t only wanted to run her own business, but she was going to have fun at it, and give back to the community.

They make trendy T-shirts that encourage music and art for people of all ages. As part of their marketing campaign and company mission they give 10% of their revenue to music and art programs around the State of Massachusetts, as they in their website: “Creating A Voice About The Arts…one tee at a time!”

I encourage you to go and take a look at their products, but mostly to take a look at your dream or idea and ask yourself: “What do i have to lose?” If anything you will gain the experience you will never gain at your 9-5 job.

Kudos to Cavata Clothing Company and this young busy entrepeneur; another company that started as a what if, and its still on business doing well and growing. Visit Cavata at www.CavataClothing.com

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Get rid of the safety-net

Francisco — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:17:27 +0000

I thought of starting this blog with a list of commonly known sayings about career choices, but I’m going right into business; I will start advising you to go into business… NOW! Some years ago my brother took me to lunch and presented me the idea of starting our own business; he said: “There is no money, you will work longer hours, half the time you will have no idea of what you are doing, and you may cry from time to time.” That was his best selling spiel, and as smart as I claim to be, I accepted… – Anes & Rincon LLC, doing business as Actions & Results Consulting, was born that day.

You may think that a start-up telecommunications consulting company has no room for a Marketing guy that won’t be doing a lot of marketing, but that’s where the professional-thinking process is flawed. Not because my grad-school education is in marketing (yes I’m bragging), makes me only useful for marketing; something I didn’t know at the time. Making the long story short, you will never know what you are REALLY capable of, until you get rid of the safety-net. I had no manager, no lawyers to get me out of trouble, no one to tell me if I was late or not, no HR defending my “rights”, no rights, and I ate Ham and Cheese Sandwiches every day for more than a year; but I learned that Marketing is just the tip of my own iceberg.

I learned that I am capable of programming in languages reserved for the best of engineers, that I can do the taxes for 3 people and one company, that I can write technical manuals of software worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, in short, I learned that I can do pretty much whatever I want. When you start your own company you gain perspective into what we call corporate America and how useless most of us are, how a successful company can be run by a couple of talented and dedicated people, and how useless most employees are. That’s why I have decided to continue my search for my professional limit again.

I will recommend you to go on and find that talent that makes you special, that hobby you have, or that thing you enjoy the most, I promise you that there is a market for it, and though not everyone will succeed, you will all learn from your failure (or failures if that is the case), but one thing college doesn’t teach us, is to reach our own limits. I haven’t reached mine yet, but sure have gone way farther than I ever thought in the past, so has the company we started a while ago. Some unpaid advertising would be to suggest you to visit www.ActionsResults.com, but I would never do that.

It’s our human nature of survival what makes us succeed beyond our own expectations when the safety-net is no longer there.

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