Day 4: How I'm building a business with zero dollars (ep. 51)

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:12

All right, day four of building the business with zero dollars, and we're still in the foundation phase. So, if you just joined me, what I want to do is just document my journey from going from zero to wherever it is that God wants Grenada Net Company, aka Negrili, to go. I'm going to use whatever I believe, I understand about the Bible and trust in his will and just commit my plans to him and let him make them succeed. Okay, um, so, with day four, I just completed my first draft of the presentation for the pitch competition that's going to be in two weeks, and this one I pitched before. This one has been the most intense in the sense that you have to do an investment summary, you have to do a business plan and you have to do a couple of other things, but it's also the most. It provides the most overall support. So they give you a marketing coach, they give you a finance coach, they give you a presentation coach and give you a general coach.

Speaker 1: 1:10

Now, so the interesting thing for me is that I've been working through GrenadaNet, through iterations, for so long that I kind of have a guide on where I wanted to go, and it differs a lot from what the individual coaches would say. So there's been times where, you know, I had to defend what I see, and so that's been challenging, because it's not like I'm discussing this with someone that doesn't know what they're talking about. Each of these people have a decade or more of experience in their area, and then I'm coming to the table with well, this is what I believe right, and so who's right, who's wrong? I can feel that it's all the way right, but it may not be. So I am appreciative to having my views challenged because, again, I've been so close to the data, and so that may be something that you have to take into consideration too. If you've been toying with the idea for a very long time, you may be so close to the data that you're not seeing clearly, so it's always helpful to try to get an outside look into what you're doing. So that's in two weeks last year, I tried to pitch in the same pitch competition, but the college that I work for had had an issue that I needed to be a witness in something, and it was on that same day. It was very frustrating because I believe I would have won I mean, we all believe we would have won but I had to back out, which is why I'm doing it this year and it turns out the thing I had to be a witness on, like a couple of weeks after I backed out, they were like oh, we don't need you anymore. So I can be upset, or I can just understand that God didn't want me to do it at that time and that this year is the year because this year the college has some major thing I'm supposed to present to the president on something and it's the day before the pitch competition. So I see that God is orchestrating it. Whether I win or not and I'm believing I'm going to win, I know that his hand is in it.

Speaker 1: 3:08

Today. I want to get the presentation I have to do done for the president. I want to get the presentation that I have to do done for the president. I want to get that done and then I want to go and make all the adjustments and changes to the presentation that the coaches gave me last night. That's my goal for today.

Speaker 1: 3:26

And drink water right, because I haven't been eating right, drinking well or hydrating well, nor have I been been working out, and there's no point to gain the whole wide world and not just lose yourself but lose your body in in the process. So today is that day of you know, getting back to what I know is right and then managing that. All right, that's it for today. Um, I got a whole new camera set up. I'm still using my iphone because I it's just no point in buying the expensive cameras, but the thing couldn't sit right, so I got this off Amazon, so hopefully this looks better.

Speaker 1: 4:03

All right, let's keep going. You guys we got. If you have a dream and it's in the entrepreneurial space, just understand that you're going to be alone a lot of the time, so just come here. Right, you can share your thoughts in the comment section. We can go back and forth, because people won't appreciate what we do until we deem a success in their eyes, and then, when we are deemed a success in their eyes, they're going to attribute it to it being an overnight success. And you and I know that there was nothing overnight about this success, but we do realize that one night, one day, success will happen, and so we keep laboring, keep trusting in god, because it's him that gives promotion. His plan will see us through. All right, be blessed, see you.