“If all goes as planned, a year from now Suzanne DeLeon will be working entirely for herself, selling cosmetics to a growing circle of customers and spending more time at home raising her two children.
DeLeon is one of a growing community of home-based business owners being shepherded through the initial steps of growing a company by local entrepreneurs Andrew Van Valer, Greg Holsen and Roland Hall. Through Scotts Valley-based Zyzyrgy, and its partners, Home Solutions Institute and Cash Flow Potentials, the trio, are teaching the nuts and bolts of collaborative business-building as well as helping to cultivate the mindset of an entrepreneur.
Instead of traditional workshops and coaching models, however, they suggest novice entrepreneurs strike out and try a well-researched, home-based business to get first-hand knowledge of what it really takes to run a business and whether they like the life of a business owner at all. Read full post here.