BE#87: As an entrepreneur you have to be the person that inspires HOPE in other people but if you dont have HOPE it's gonna be complicated - says "Terrell Turner ".

Our guest today is an experienced accounting and finance professional that creates massive amounts of content to empower small and medium sized businesses to experience Smart Money Growth. He launched a podcast and filmed 165 episodes in 9 months. He was the Director of Finance that support raising $65M in private equity funding for a mid sized tech company, pioneered a finance transformation process for a fortune 10 $95B+ global company that became the model that was used across the entire company. He is "Terrell Turner". In this episode he talks to us about: - How entrepreneurs need to take time to learn the non-product/idea side of the business to become successful. - Most entrepreneurs love their product but tend to miss on the object side of it like how do they customers look at it. - He likes to help aspiring entrepreneurs look at their business from numbers point of view, as he believes that numbers give you a chance to take an object view at your business. - Before starting your business it's important to gain clarity on what you what to achieve it is like taking a road trip and then working backwards. - An area that a lot of people miss that usually kills the businesses is "people really don't look at how much cash do you need to get you to from where you are to where you what to be. Having a cash flow plan is like having fuel in your car to move forward and reach your destination. - When aspiring entrepreneurs have an idea they try to sell their idea to an investor but the investor is interested in the business behind that idea. What does the business around the idea look like for example sale and marketing, market share etc. - And for service based businesses it's the reputation you are gonna stand on. Can you deliver quality and value? - The idea will not make you successful it's what you do with that idea will bring you success. All this and much more, do listen to the full episode to get some golden nuggets which can help you succeed. Please leave us your review as it means the world to