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How Profitable Is Tipping Truck Business In Nigeria

February 3, 2014 in Blog, Small Scale Business Ideas /by Robert Goodman

Details & Price Info @ http://www.shibang-china.net/contact.html SBM Main Products @ http://www.shibang-china.net/product/ how profitable is tipping truck bu…

Gyan Adda 49 – Open-source will leave you behind

February 3, 2014 /18 Comments/in Blog, Crowd Sourcing /by Robert Goodman

Open-Source is a powerful force that when utilized allows for abundant collaboration of shared goals in an unfathomable scale. The good news is, it’s easily … Stanford physicist Ingmar Riedel-Kruse has begun developing “biotic games” involving paramecia and other living organisms. He hopes the games lead to advance…

Latest Free Small Business Software,Blog News

February 3, 2014 in Blog, Free Small Business Software /by Robert Goodman

ESCO Welding End Prep Tool Is Self-Centering, Has Robust Gear Drive Providing chatter-free operation, the ESCO Mongoose MILLHOG® utilizes the EscoLock™ rigid blade lock system and T-15 tool steel TiN coated cutter blades with a radical chip breaker that directs the chip away from the tube and minimizes heat generation. Read more on SYS-CON Media […]

Latest Sample Project Management Plan News

February 3, 2014 in Blog, Sample Project Management Plan /by Robert Goodman

2 proposals for Norwich's historic Reid & Hughes building still in the running All three submitted their plans to the city on Jan. 10. “We had three good … “But you have the luxury of judging them against each other, and we felt one of the candidates was missing some of the local networking necessary […]

The Changing Face of Venture Capital Pt II #SVASE

February 3, 2014 in Blog, Venture Capital /by Robert Goodman

Panel discussion on the changing face of venture capital @Launch SVASE 2011. Moderator: Peter Delevett, San Jose Mercury News. Panel: John O’Farrell, Andrees…

Latest Starting Up A Business,Blog News

February 3, 2014 in Blog, Starting Up A Business /by Robert Goodman

“Looking” Episode 3: You Betta Work! For its third episode, “Looking” shifted its focus from sex and relationships to the careers of its three core characters. But it did not shift its tone, as Patrick, Dom, and Augustin are about as successful in their work lives as they are in their … Read more on […]

Score Topics

February 3, 2014 in Blog, Business Ideas For 2012 /by Robert Goodman

Score Topics This is a class of social media websites that allows people with ideas big or small to reach out to others who have money to fund good ideas. The funders are people who browse the site or get an … In 2012, crowd funding sites as a group raised more … Read more […]

LiveMinutes Raises $1.4M, Disrupts Productivity Space with Real-Time Collaboration Platform

February 3, 2014 in Angel Investors, Blog /by Robert Goodman

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 23, 2013 LiveMinutes, the real-time team collaboration service, announced the closing of a $ 1.4M seed round led by Great Oaks VC and including notable investors like New World Ventures, Ali Rosenthal, and Sam Yagan. Unlike any other productivity app, LiveMinutes offers a single real-time collaboration platform that includes project […]

New BBC interactive guides: responsive, dynamic and accessible web design

February 3, 2014 in Blog, Template /by Robert Goodman

New BBC interactive guides: responsive, dynamic and accessible web design Only the eight or so interactive stories included within it are, as they're designed in the BBC's new template. Nevertheless this homepage works well on desktop as it's only about two and a half screen lengths. I find this infinitely preferable to … Read more […]

A home with personality: East Hill house steps back in time

February 3, 2014 in Blog, How To Start A Business In Florida /by Robert Goodman

A home with personality: East Hill house steps back in time No one told me about Florida frogs. They are very loud, and they were in my house. Worse yet, my … I would flip on the lights, and they would stop for a while, then startup again. I would take a step, and they […]

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204 Action Items
A company-wide execution sequence identifying the work, accountable WHO, timing, dependencies and expected result.

50 Milestones
Objective Definitions of Done so progress is measured by completed results rather than activity.

9 Action Plans + Gantt Charts
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4 Go/No-Go Gates
Structured points where the founder stops, examines the evidence and deliberately decides whether to proceed, modify, pause or stop.

WHO Chart™ Hiring Methodology
A disciplined way to define the ideal person before hiring employees, contractors, cofounders, consultants or people who influence driving assumptions.

Driving-Assumption Stress Tests
Questions designed to expose who chose a critical assumption, what qualifies them to choose it and what happens throughout the company if it proves wrong.

Costs, Roles, Checks & Founder Tools
Costs founders overlook, role guidance, Before You Move On checks, field notes, decision tools and practical implementation resources.

Compound Knowledge™
More than four decades of recurring startup lessons, patterns, mistakes and second- and third-order consequences captured so you do not have to learn all of them the expensive way.

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Most importantly, the workflows are designed to leave you with deliverables in your hands branded for your own company — not merely an interesting AI conversation.

Examples of what Lite can help put in your hands:

First-pass Business Plan
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Excel-style financial models and schedules
Startup-cost budget
Cash-burn analysis
Runway schedule
Maximum cash-hole analysis
Base, downside and upside scenarios
Pricing and willingness-to-pay analysis
Revenue staircase and revenue math
Customer and transaction requirements
Lead-funnel and CAC analysis
Gross-margin analysis
Launch-delay stress tests
Growth-capacity stress tests
Go-to-market plan
Sales-process plan
90-day launch plan
WHO Chart™ hiring and contractor tools
Candidate and team scoring tools
Investor Executive Summary
Pitch-deck outline and red-team review
Due-diligence preparation
Weekly KPI/control framework
Full startup red-team memo

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MY PRIMARY SEMI-RETIREMENT FOCUS

Five Year Life™ Publishing

After more than 4½ decades of starting companies, raising capital, operating businesses and working with startup CEOs, my primary focus today is no longer building another consulting practice.

My focus is Good-Man LLC and the Five Year Life™ publishing program — preserving as much of the Compound Knowledge™ I have accumulated as possible while I still have the time and energy to do it.

I have already completed three books and have two additional books roughly 80% complete. My hope is to finish those and write several more while I still can.

That shift is also one reason W Cubed™ exists. I cannot personally mentor every founder who may benefit from the lessons I accumulated, but I can capture those lessons in books, methodologies, tools and AI-assisted systems that can continue helping people without requiring my direct involvement.

Five Year Life™ is therefore not a side project attached to my old consulting business. It is a major part of what I have chosen to spend this stage of my life doing.

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FEATURED BOOK BY ROBERT LEE GOODMAN

Your Last Paycheck™

Navigating Job Loss and Layoffs in the Age of AI

First, Financial Triage After the Layoff.

Second, Mapping Your New Personalized Career Path in the Age of AI.

Job loss is never just a financial event. It can destabilize your income, savings, family, confidence and sense of professional identity, often at the very moment when you need to make some of the most consequential decisions of your life. Your Last Paycheck™ was written to help readers confront those realities with practical guidance rather than panic, while recognizing that artificial intelligence is rapidly changing the employment opportunities and career paths available to them.

Part One — Financial Triage After Job Loss

The financial-stabilization and career-repositioning layer of the Five Year Life™ system begins with the immediate challenges of losing a paycheck. The first half helps readers stabilize money, benefits, housing, credit and the urgent priorities that cannot wait while the job search unfolds.

Readers are guided through the difficult decisions surrounding financial runway, household spending, unemployment benefits, emergency resources, debt pressures, professional relationships and the practical steps needed to protect what matters most. The objective is to establish a more stable foundation before a temporary income disruption becomes a much larger personal and financial crisis.

Part Two — Your Career Path in the Age of AI

The second half maps a personalized career path for the Age of AI — including 100 emerging AI-related job and career titles spanning immediate-income opportunities through senior executive positions. The focus is not merely on finding another version of the job you just lost, but on understanding how your existing experience can become the foundation for work that may be more resilient and valuable as technology changes the labor market.

Readers explore AI literacy, career repositioning, transferable capabilities, new professional roles, and ways to evaluate training opportunities without wasting scarce time or money. The goal is to help you identify where your existing knowledge and experience intersect with emerging opportunities, then build a realistic path forward.

Who Should Read Your Last Paycheck™?

This book is for people who have recently lost a job, fear that a layoff may be coming, or recognize that their profession is changing beneath their feet. It is also intended for spouses and families affected by employment disruption, career counselors, outplacement professionals and corporate leaders who want to help people make better decisions during difficult transitions.

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Why Am I Giving W Cubed™ Away?

I am Robert Lee Goodman, MBA. Over more than 4½ decades I started 49 companies and limited partnerships, raised outside investor capital 44 times from 1,342 investors and worked with thousands of startup and emerging-company CEOs.

Those experiences accumulated into what I call Compound Knowledge™: pattern recognition created by making decisions, living through their consequences, discovering what was missed and carrying those lessons into the next company.

I do not want those lessons to disappear into old consulting files when I finally stop doing this work.

So instead of trying to monetize every piece of W Cubed™, I am turning as much of that accumulated startup knowledge as possible into a methodology founders can use themselves.

The complete W Cubed™ Founder Launch is my semi-retirement gift to the startup community.

If it helps you avoid one bad hire, one unrealistic assumption, one underestimated cash requirement or one micro-decision that could have grown into a company-threatening problem, giving it away will have been worth it.

A DELIBERATELY LIMITED HUMAN BACKSTOP

At Most 100 Founder Retainer Blocks

Because publishing is now my primary focus, I have agreed to make available no more than 100 blocks of 10 consulting hours for founders and startup-company CEOs.

The purpose is not to have me do work that W Cubed™ or AI can do for you.

The highest-value use of that time is often helping you identify, challenge and pressure-test the driving assumptions you are most worried could jeopardize your company’s future, financing, cash runway or ultimate success.

That might mean examining a launch date, staffing plan, revenue ramp, pricing assumption, CAC expectation, working-capital requirement, capital raise, contractor recommendation or another decision whose downstream consequences could be much larger than the original decision appears.

The objective is to give you access to an experienced second set of eyes when the consequences of being wrong justify it — not to make you dependent on a consultant.

Standard Founder Retainer

10 hours • $2,500 • usable over 12 months
Subject to availability and then-current terms

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Contact Robert

Robert Lee Goodman, MBA

CEO & Chief ImpleMentor™ • CEO RESOURCE LLC

“I Help Startups Start & Stay Started.”™

49 companies and limited partnerships founded.

44 outside-capital raises totaling approximately $120.1 million in today’s dollars from 1,342 investors.

Worked with thousands of startup and emerging-company CEOs across 49 states, more than 70 countries and hundreds of industries.

Not Sure Where to Start?

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