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Let People Tell You What’s Wrong…
Before They Tell Everyone Else!

Excerpted from the book on mindful business management, Business Black Belt   “The one who needs to know the most, is often the last to find out.”   You must create a connection with your customer grapevine, otherwise you’ll never know trouble is brewing in enough time to deal with it inexpensively. Some study concluded…

Raising Capital – Tony Dohrmann – Business Black Belt Podcast

How to Complete Your Financing Round Today’s guest Tony Dohrmann is an expert on raising capital. Lasershield founder, Tony Dohrmann shares financing and business-building lessons from creating 6 companies, raising $50+ million from 390 investors, defending against a hostile take-over, and the realities of getting a complex product manufactured and onto the shelves at Home…

Welcome to the Business Black Belt Podcast

Experts. Advice. Results. I’m Burke Franklin, and after 35 years in business helping new and established businesses raise capital and gain higher success, I hate it when good products, companies or people fail! Building a successful business and being a mindful and responsive entrepreneur is an emotional, mental, physical and spiritual bootcamp. Yet, few things…

Management by Centrifugal Force

Excerpted from the book on enlightened business, Business Black Belt “Come to the edge,” he said. “We are afraid,” they said. “Come to the edge,” he said. They came… He pushed them …and they flew. Here’s a possible way to think of your business structure, regardless of the structure you actually have, and have what…