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Hello.
The following question concerns not becoming a "Fastlaner Entrepreneur", but building a long term career working for one. I will explain my situation:
I am a more laid back analytical young guy who happens to have had a female friend who I have always admired for the following characteristics:
An aura of strength and leadership, extremely eloquent public speaking ability and the power to know the exact right thing to say, a persistent no nonsense drive, tremendous depth, good practical business sense, but most of all she by nature is a very powerful and strong leader type. She has the leadership presence and power of a Hillary Clinton, Rockefeller Heiress, Meg Whitman, etc. For a set of reasons that I will not go into she became a teacher when she completed college. Sensing that she had the ability to be one of the next female tycoons or CEOs, I have urged her for the past several years to one day go into business.
Lo and behold, she now has based on her experience as a teacher, come up with an educational product that truly solves a real problem and can effect millions of students nationwide.
As you can tell, I admire her the way action fan guys admire Lara Croft. What would make me the happiest in terms of a career, since I truly admire her leadership ability, is to have a career working for her as her key right hand man. I know that this is a Hitchhiker stratgey to some degree, but I think that my analytical ability and her leadership would make a great match.
As the "Fastlane" book says "think not about your selfish desires, but how you can be of service to others." I thought about how I could be of service and have a tremendous effect of great magnitude upon her business.
1.My research and analytical skills would help in terms of areas such as lead generation, understanding certain aspects of the government procurement prospects (She would be dealing with state school departments and other government agencies and I once had an internship that dealt with defense contracts for a small DOD contractor), evaluating and improving product features, measuring the strength of certain marketing campaigns, etc. Additionally, I was an ethnic studies minor in college and have followed as an intellectual hobby certain emerging market nations. I have some thoughts on which emerging nations there would be a market in for the product, which nations there would not be, and why.
2. While, I have at least ten suggestions on potential customers, I also have some direct contacts that could be helpful:
A. Years ago, I was involved in Democratic politics. While I left the field of politics, I remained good friends with two people who eventually became high level statewide officials in their respective states. With these contacts, I could see perhaps mid seven figure sales ( for school departments they deal with),
B. I managed to become friends with a nine figure entrepreneur that is in Fortune magazine several times a year. I knew him before he became famous. Since he has a foundation that deals with education, he could of course have some potential contacts.
My questions are the following:
1. Should I bring up the possibility of me becoming her employee now, or after the business develops some cash flow, and it reaches the point where there I can be hired for a salary.
2. Would you have any suggestions on how to manage best the entrepreneur-right hand man relationship so that we both thrive at our respective roles?
3. Have any of you guys ever known of any successful right hand man male and female entrepreneur duos?
I would tremendously appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.
Thanks
The following question concerns not becoming a "Fastlaner Entrepreneur", but building a long term career working for one. I will explain my situation:
I am a more laid back analytical young guy who happens to have had a female friend who I have always admired for the following characteristics:
An aura of strength and leadership, extremely eloquent public speaking ability and the power to know the exact right thing to say, a persistent no nonsense drive, tremendous depth, good practical business sense, but most of all she by nature is a very powerful and strong leader type. She has the leadership presence and power of a Hillary Clinton, Rockefeller Heiress, Meg Whitman, etc. For a set of reasons that I will not go into she became a teacher when she completed college. Sensing that she had the ability to be one of the next female tycoons or CEOs, I have urged her for the past several years to one day go into business.
Lo and behold, she now has based on her experience as a teacher, come up with an educational product that truly solves a real problem and can effect millions of students nationwide.
As you can tell, I admire her the way action fan guys admire Lara Croft. What would make me the happiest in terms of a career, since I truly admire her leadership ability, is to have a career working for her as her key right hand man. I know that this is a Hitchhiker stratgey to some degree, but I think that my analytical ability and her leadership would make a great match.
As the "Fastlane" book says "think not about your selfish desires, but how you can be of service to others." I thought about how I could be of service and have a tremendous effect of great magnitude upon her business.
1.My research and analytical skills would help in terms of areas such as lead generation, understanding certain aspects of the government procurement prospects (She would be dealing with state school departments and other government agencies and I once had an internship that dealt with defense contracts for a small DOD contractor), evaluating and improving product features, measuring the strength of certain marketing campaigns, etc. Additionally, I was an ethnic studies minor in college and have followed as an intellectual hobby certain emerging market nations. I have some thoughts on which emerging nations there would be a market in for the product, which nations there would not be, and why.
2. While, I have at least ten suggestions on potential customers, I also have some direct contacts that could be helpful:
A. Years ago, I was involved in Democratic politics. While I left the field of politics, I remained good friends with two people who eventually became high level statewide officials in their respective states. With these contacts, I could see perhaps mid seven figure sales ( for school departments they deal with),
B. I managed to become friends with a nine figure entrepreneur that is in Fortune magazine several times a year. I knew him before he became famous. Since he has a foundation that deals with education, he could of course have some potential contacts.
My questions are the following:
1. Should I bring up the possibility of me becoming her employee now, or after the business develops some cash flow, and it reaches the point where there I can be hired for a salary.
2. Would you have any suggestions on how to manage best the entrepreneur-right hand man relationship so that we both thrive at our respective roles?
3. Have any of you guys ever known of any successful right hand man male and female entrepreneur duos?
I would tremendously appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.
Thanks
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