Veronica Velez
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I just finished to read unscripted and it gave me a clear view of the rute to take. My boyfriend and I already founded a small business that is ultimately my boyfriend's, but I have been with him all the way long.
From our first call taken in the house, to have a small office in my city's downtown with over 10 employees. I already knew that the road was tuff but MJ DeMarco gave me a much bigger perspective.
As the business is my boyfriend's and he doesn't need me anymore, I want now to follow my path, and I have 2 ideas. I have tried to do the expected value and failure probability that MJ does in the unscripted book, and it seems like the business that can actually give me a homerun is the second I will describe, but I have read from other authors to avoid markets that are overcrowded (as the beauty and health industry). So I am indecisive.
For both businesses I have already worked trying to find the right productocracy, here are the 2 businesses I have been contemplating:
1) Food Truck of shrimp cocktails.
I am from Monterrey, Mexico. And here I have seen over and over food businesses with one single dish that are extremely popular.
There is a taco restaurant with only one taco and is always crowded; there is a tostadas business with several branches around the city that has only one type of tostada; and similarlly there is a shrimp cocktail small place that only sell cocktail shrimp, but is so crowded that you can wait in line up to 30 minutes to get your cocktail, I must add: The service is bad, the hygiene is bad, and still Crowded!
So I have been trying several cocktail sauce recipies on my own, investigating and trying with several ingredients, trying to find the right productocracy. The idea is to have several shrimp cocktail food trucks around town with one warehouse for food preparation, money reception, inventory and to store the food trucks.
In time, the same all around Mexico.
2) Fresh and Asadero cheese from my local town.
Sorry, I said I am from Monterrey, Mexico; Actually, that is where I live, I am actually from Aguascalientes, Mexico; Which is a very small city. I have lived in other cities around Mexico, and I have tasted their milk, cream, cheese and yogurt and is always so bad compared to my hometown.
As the majority of the people in Aguascalientes, my favourite dishes were always contemplating some kind of the above products, because they are so good. In time I realized, I will not find the same flavour anywhere else, because the milk quality and flavour is related to the cows, the enviroment where they live and the food they eat (among other thngs), and there are no better cows, food cow or enviroment than in Aguascalientes.
There are even 2 types of cheese that are only fabricated in my hometown (I don't know if the rest don't know the recipie), and I have seen local brands of cheese and products very profitable all around Mexico.
I have taken courses and participated in expos on how to fabricate those types of cheeses, I have tried several ways to find the right productocracy tasting different types of milk and processes, and giving out samples to people.
As I don't have cows or a big land nor I have the money to purchase those right now, I figured to start with the cheese, in time I will have my own cows, my own land and my own factory to produce not only cheese, but also milk, yogur and cream.
But is too hard to compite with the big companies that dominate the market in Mexico (62% of the market is dominated by 2 companies). Also, the process is too hard because I don't have much yet, and I have to find packagind and distribution systems, that handle perfectly the product all the way in order to not affect the flavour and consistency of the product.
And there are a lot of other cheeses over there, what difference can I make to the world anyway by selling just a differnt type of cheese?
I hope you can give me your opinions and help me to decide
Thank you Mj for creating this great place where the uscripted minds can find their path!
From our first call taken in the house, to have a small office in my city's downtown with over 10 employees. I already knew that the road was tuff but MJ DeMarco gave me a much bigger perspective.
As the business is my boyfriend's and he doesn't need me anymore, I want now to follow my path, and I have 2 ideas. I have tried to do the expected value and failure probability that MJ does in the unscripted book, and it seems like the business that can actually give me a homerun is the second I will describe, but I have read from other authors to avoid markets that are overcrowded (as the beauty and health industry). So I am indecisive.
For both businesses I have already worked trying to find the right productocracy, here are the 2 businesses I have been contemplating:
1) Food Truck of shrimp cocktails.
I am from Monterrey, Mexico. And here I have seen over and over food businesses with one single dish that are extremely popular.
There is a taco restaurant with only one taco and is always crowded; there is a tostadas business with several branches around the city that has only one type of tostada; and similarlly there is a shrimp cocktail small place that only sell cocktail shrimp, but is so crowded that you can wait in line up to 30 minutes to get your cocktail, I must add: The service is bad, the hygiene is bad, and still Crowded!
So I have been trying several cocktail sauce recipies on my own, investigating and trying with several ingredients, trying to find the right productocracy. The idea is to have several shrimp cocktail food trucks around town with one warehouse for food preparation, money reception, inventory and to store the food trucks.
In time, the same all around Mexico.
2) Fresh and Asadero cheese from my local town.
Sorry, I said I am from Monterrey, Mexico; Actually, that is where I live, I am actually from Aguascalientes, Mexico; Which is a very small city. I have lived in other cities around Mexico, and I have tasted their milk, cream, cheese and yogurt and is always so bad compared to my hometown.
As the majority of the people in Aguascalientes, my favourite dishes were always contemplating some kind of the above products, because they are so good. In time I realized, I will not find the same flavour anywhere else, because the milk quality and flavour is related to the cows, the enviroment where they live and the food they eat (among other thngs), and there are no better cows, food cow or enviroment than in Aguascalientes.
There are even 2 types of cheese that are only fabricated in my hometown (I don't know if the rest don't know the recipie), and I have seen local brands of cheese and products very profitable all around Mexico.
I have taken courses and participated in expos on how to fabricate those types of cheeses, I have tried several ways to find the right productocracy tasting different types of milk and processes, and giving out samples to people.
As I don't have cows or a big land nor I have the money to purchase those right now, I figured to start with the cheese, in time I will have my own cows, my own land and my own factory to produce not only cheese, but also milk, yogur and cream.
But is too hard to compite with the big companies that dominate the market in Mexico (62% of the market is dominated by 2 companies). Also, the process is too hard because I don't have much yet, and I have to find packagind and distribution systems, that handle perfectly the product all the way in order to not affect the flavour and consistency of the product.
And there are a lot of other cheeses over there, what difference can I make to the world anyway by selling just a differnt type of cheese?
I hope you can give me your opinions and help me to decide
Thank you Mj for creating this great place where the uscripted minds can find their path!
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