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🌹🌹🌹Happy Valentine's Day!🌹🌹🌹 We are so pleased to see our entrepreneurial clients Richelle P. Peña and William A. Peña, DMD, MS, MBA, share their love story with Nova Southeastern University, where they met 15 years ago. The lovebirds, who created an 8-figure business, give valuable tips on pursuing your dreams. Click the link in the comments section below to see how it started.

Valentine's week has arrived, and it is one of the best spans of the year for a small-scale business to spread their presence, make consumers aware, boost their sales and have all round exponential growth. Here are 5 key tactics that most newbie and medium scale entrepreneurs should adapt in their operations.

Ever heard of the "good ol boy network"? Picture my dad in his 80s office - the big, dark wood desk and matching leather chair (trendy back then, right?). I worked there part-time in college, then joined the sales team. Mostly men, then 2 amazing women and me - "the boss's daughter" or "Jerry Anderson's daughter." Everyone knew me. I grew up in that entrepreneurial world, and I loved it! My dad often referred to his successful male colleagues as the "good ol boy network." It wasn't formal, but built on shared experiences and friendships. While some might criticize it, others might think they got special treatment. I never felt excluded, despite the whispers. It fueled my desire to prove myself that I could be one of the best too 💪 By 2000, Dad was retiring. My husband and I opened our first business, becoming an affiliate and a part of the network. It was an honor to learn from and be mentored by them. Today, 24 years and 2 businesses later, I see my journey differently. While I used to regret "wasting time" finding myself, I realize those moments shaped me. The "good ol boy network" taught me invaluable business lessons and resilience. That environment raised me into the strong, independent business person I am today, and I wouldn't be here without that path. To those "good ol boys" still around - thank you! #businessownerlife #businesswoman #resilience #determination #businessleadership #businessmentor

What can we learn from Pablo Escobar? or from the greatest - Mr. Dhirubai Ambani? That they knew their business sooooooo well; they knew everything from operations, to enterprise to peoples names to who did what and when and why and how. Why should I care about the watchman who guards my office building? or the office boy who brings tea for my customers? If doing business is only supplying for the delta of demand, would knowing so much about everything else really matter? And does going the extra mile really count? Why do corporate offices send gifts to their well wishers? Both vendors and customers alike? Why do offices design merchandise? Why do companies have employee on boarding systems wherein a big part of that process is merchandise. ⭐How you make people feel on your journey is going to be a tell on where you end up. ⭐Masslows pyramid, status games, if you realize that everything is in the mind. Your mind, or peoples minds. ⭐And the way you show that you care about them and their progress, their journey, is going to massively affect how they feel about you, their perception of you and how much they would want to help you. ⭐First impression matters a great deal, but it does not stop there. It only starts there. ⭐This means that you have to take into account that your products are going to be used by people with #mixedemotions, and designing for humans means understanding #human #behavior. ⭐Everything that you do would be first to interact with people - either physically or digitally, and second the value that you will add. We're here for the long game. We believe in continued and shared progress. We want to create an ecosystem where people see for themselves that it is mutually beneficial to align with us, in whatever context that maybe. PS: The intent of putting this out here is to show how attention to detail can look. It may be a bad example given that #Pablo Escobar was a drug lord, and did abominable things. But there's always something to #learn from everything, as long as you want to learn. #business #emotions #people

Raising two loving, kind, soulful daughters has always been and will always be my greatest success in this life. Raising my business, is a close second. It has been like birthing a child and watching her grow. SoulSpace is my love child, and I now see that the things along the way that I thought I failed miserably at….were not failures at all. Everything led me to Soul. Stroll Magazine Ballantyne #faithjourney #courageousleadership #womenentrepreneurs #familybusiness #charlottebusiness #womanownedbusiness

Yesterday was a special day. ▫️ Elliot and I had the honor of hosting Eric from Bling Capital at Novellia's (first-ever!) NYC office. As we showed him around, I couldn't help but reflect on our journey. When Eric and the Bling team first believed in Novellia, we didn't have an office. We didn't have a full team, product, customers, or revenue. I like to joke that we didn't even have a single line of code written! What we had was a vision - a vision to revolutionize healthcare by giving patients like my Tata control over their health data and helping life science companies accelerate life-saving research. The founder's journey is hard. There are days when you question everything. You often encounter a loneliness that's hard to describe unless you've lived it. Finding people who believe in you and your vision - that's what helps you shift into sixth gear. The Bling team was that very first catalyst for us, and I'm eternally grateful for their support and guidance. As I walked Eric through our humble (and plant-obsessed) office, showcasing the growing team and the impact we're making, I was reminded of how far we've come. But more importantly, I was reinvigorated by how far we still have to go. To all the founders out there grinding away: keep pushing. Find your supporters, your believers. They exist, and they can help you achieve the impossible. At Novellia, we're on a mission to say goodbye to early goodbyes. We're working tirelessly to ensure that stories like my grandfather's--when it feels impossible to find and centralize all your medical records--become a thing of the past. With partners like Bling by our side, I'm more confident than ever that we're building a brighter, healthier tomorrow for all. Here's to the dreamers, the believers, and to a future where technology and compassion intersect to save lives.

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“One of the most important lessons I’ve learned along the way is success comes from what you make of the failures, what you learn from them, and how you get back up.” - Emily Dong Founder & CEO of Snout Catch more of Emily’s insights in her Founder Spotlight and hear about her journey: https://lnkd.in/gN-Zgg57