The Making of a Million Dollar Business
Less than 5% of businesses created ever realize annual revenues over $1M. What is required to build a business that surpasses the million dollar mark? Julie knows – she's done that - and in this presentation she shares her top 10 secrets. While revealing the critical success factors she's discovered, she also shares some of the pitfalls to avoid and the one WORST thing you can do when trying to grow your business. The tips are taken from h er new book, “ The ParentPreneur Edge: What Parenting Teaches About Building a Successful Business” (Wiley, summer 2007 ) .
Abstract
In this presentation, Julie shares her experiences building her IT company from just her in her basement to 24 employee and multi-millions in revenue with Fortune 100 clients. Starting from a services company, she worked with a customer to develop a large-scale manufacturing application for which she retained the rights and then commercialized, licensing it to other companies. After ten years of profitable operation, she cashed out of the business and sold the software to a business partner.
In addition to her own experiences, Julie shares insight she has gained in advising other technology companies in their start-up, growth and expansion. Topics such as ways to really know what your customers want and why refusing to get out of the details can be detrimental to your business are presented in her humorous and motivating style. Attendees that already have their own business will leave this presentation with actionable steps they can take to propel it while those thinking about starting their own business will leave fired up and to take that leap!
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