The Starter Report
Starting something new, especially a business, is extremely difficult. The statistical failure rate is upwards of 80% in the first year. Not everyone possesses the grit and mindset it takes to initiate a large project and follow it through to completion.
Interestingly, many creative and innovative individuals with the best ideas are challenged in those areas—task initiation and follow-through. They're unprepared for the long-term grind that requires intense dedication, financial risk, and strength to overcome significant inertia in order to build something new out of basically nothing.
If you're someone with fantastic ideas but no clue where to start or how to manage and complete such a project, The Starter Report is for you. It addresses the complex intersection between project management and entrepreneurship, including the entrepreneurial mindset, mental resilience, operations, legality, business structure, and marketing. Sometimes that means advice on how simply to get out of bed the next morning after hitting a proverbial wall.
We're here for all of that and more!
Conna Bond is an experienced entrepreneur who serves as a consultant and coach for startups and entrepreneurial ventures. She taught entrepreneurship, project management, marketing, marketing management, consumer behavior, and business ethics at the university upper division level for ten years.
She understands the psychological challenges of both being an entrepreneur and working for an entrepreneur. She also understands the importance of a frictionless customer experience as the foundation for any successful marketing strategy. She employs "big picture" analysis to assess what is and isn't working—from the smallest personal challenge to the most significant business objective.
She also understands the importance of a frictionless customer experience as the foundation for any successful marketing strategy.
The Starter Report brings to readers her wealth of knowledge and experience gained over the years,—including hard knocks. She also gleans knowledge and wisdom from other entrepreneurs who have experienced both successes and failures in their innovative pursuits over decades.