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Black Belt Startup: Entrepreneurship Pro Course

Turn your professional skills into a scalable consulting or services business 

     

Black Belt Startup: Entrepreneurship Foundations (Pro Course)

Step-by-step blueprint to plan, market, sell, and deliver your services. 

  • 60 video modules
  • Video completion time: 5 hours
  • 12 templates and worksheets
 

Get the insights I learned from building 7 businesses that generated $65M in sales. 

  • Why "passion" is optional
  • Advantages of service and consulting businesses over product businesses
  • How to know if your business idea is worth pursuing
  • The dangers of underplanning or overplanning
  • Why you need to invest in accounting and legal support
  • The biggest mistake founders make with email
  • Basic tech to get you started
  • The most important marketing channel for new businesses
  • Why many founders never make it to the first sale
  • Doing whatever it takes to please your first clients
  • Staying a solopreneur vs. hiring
 

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Full curriculum

  Intro to Black Belt Startup

Module 1

Free Introduction to the Free Course

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  Pillar 1: Entrepreneurial Mindset and Personal Considerations

Module 1

Entrepreneurial Mindset: Are You Prepared for Entrepreneurship?

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Module 2

Beginner's Mind in Japanese Philosophy

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Module 3

Calculated Risk

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Module 4

Putting Work/Life Balance on Hold

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Module 5

Creating Your Black Belt Startup Roadmap

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  Pillar 2: Vetting Your Business Idea

Module 1

Overview of Consulting and Service Businesses

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Module 2

Consulting/Service Businesses vs Product Businesses

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Module 3

Mapping Your Skills to Your Offer

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Module 4

Finding and Vetting Your Business Idea

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Module 5

Audience Research

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Module 6

Identifying Your Unique Value Proposition (UVP)

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Module 7

Going Broad vs. Niching Down

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  Pillar 3: Business Planning

Module 1

Side Hustling

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Module 2

B2B and B2C Models

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Module 3

7 Pricing Models

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Module 4

Writing Your Business Plan

 

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Module 5

7 Audiences Your Business Plan Needs to Address

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Module 6

Creating Your Personal Financial Runway

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Module 7

Working With Advisors

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  Pillar 4: Partnerships and Legal Protections

Module 1

How to Hire a Business Attorney

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Module 2

Forming a Business Entity

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Module 3

Partnerships and Equity

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  Pillar 5: Finance and Accounting

Module 1

Early-Stage Cash Flow, P&L, and Budgeting

 

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Module 2

Working with Banks

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Module 3

Never Do Your Own Accounting

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Module 4

Hiring a Bookkeeper, Accountant, or Fractional CFO

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Module 5

Taxes for Small Business

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  Pillar 6: Branding and Foundational Technology

Module 1

Naming Your Business

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Module 2

Start With Simple Technology - Put People and Process First

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Module 3

Your Business Image Matters

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Module 5

Logo and Graphic Identity

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Module 4

Logo and Graphic Identity

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    Pillar 7: Marketing

Module 1

Marketing Overview

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Module 2

Sales Pitch

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Module 3

Leveraging Your Network

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Module 4

Attending Live Events Networking Events, Part 1

 

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Module 5

Attending Live Events Networking Events, Part 2

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    Pillar 7, Part 2: Marketing (Continued)

Module 1

Allocating Your Marketing Budget on Paid Channels

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Module 2

Social Network Setup

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Module 3

Setting Up Google Ads and Meta Ads

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Module 4

AI in Marketing Messaging

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Module 5

Creating Your Marketing Performance Dashboard

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Module 6

Partner Marketing

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Module 7

Individual, Horizontal, and Vertical Referrals

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  Pillar 8, Part 1: Sales

Module 1

Sales Overview

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Module 2

Sales Funnel Overview

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Module 3

The Emotion of Sales

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Module 4

The 2-1-2 Sales Approach (2-Hour Response, 1st meeting, 2-Day Followup)

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Module 5

Understanding What the Lead Really Wants

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Module 6

Qualifying Leads

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Module 7

Getting to the Decision Makers and Satisfying the Quiet Stakeholders

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Module 8

Nailing Your Demos

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    Pillar 8, Part 2: Sales (Continued)

Module 1

Just Sell: Getting to Your First 3 Sales

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Module 2

Say Yes, and Then Figure It Out

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Module 3

Contracts and Proposals

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  Pillar 9: Service Delivery

Module 1

Project Kickoff and Communication

 

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Module 2

Timeline, Scope, and Quality

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Module 3

Empowering Your Clients Through Consulting, Training, and Support

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Module 4

Progress Reports and Issue Resolution

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Module 5

Delighting Your First Clients

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Module 6

White Glove: Bringing Fortune 500 Service to SMBs

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  Pillar 10: Working with Contractors and Hiring

Module 1

Solopreneurship vs. Hiring

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Module 2

Outsourcing vs. Inhousing

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Module 3

Hiring Employees

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Module 4

Hiring "A" Players

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Module 5

Contractor Agreements

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  Next Steps

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