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Over on the EVDL, Ken has kicked off what promises to be a great thread, on starting an EV-related business:
To: ev@listproc.sjsu.edu, ausev@austinev.org
Subject: Starting business...
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 09:03:39 -0400
From: kenscircus@aol.com
Hey all, this is a bit premature, but I thought I would throw this out
there for some feedback.
I am starting a business producing electronic stuff for EVs. My
intention is to help the EV world and build myself a retirement
business. It will certainly take some time because I still have a "day
job", but, this is what I have been doing at my "day job" since the
80's.
I have named it Hot Juice Electric and have started a "beginners"
website. http://www.hotjuiceelectric.com.
Comments, suggestions, advice???
Ken
*** end of Kens message ***
I love the EVDL, but I think folks on ES might agree with me, that the technology (text-based mailing list) is flawed... it is like drinking from a firehose, and messages are hard to find later in the archives.
All sorts of folks drive all sorts of EVs for all sorts of reasons.
Some here aboard ES are in EV or EV-related businesses, and some may be interested in starting up or getting into this business.
I'm assembling (slowly) my next-generation scooter, and I consider it a prototype for future production, although I have not organized the effort formally yet, as a registered enterprise.
So my question is, would folks aboard ES be interested in a forums section all about the EV business world. There might be separate forums about advertising and promotion, financing, import/export, training and supervising staff, developing business plans, etc...
There is a lot more to any business besides just product knowledge.
Gawd help me, I have squandered most of my life as a combat accountant, but I have academics in marketing too, and a little schooling in physics and chemistry and engineering. As accountant, been a supervisor and Business Manager...
A lot of startups are one-man bands, and doomed to fail.
Business requires a range of skills, and many get into biz because they are good as marketers or as engineers etc, but these are not a rounded skill set.
The objectives of opening up one or more business-related forums might be two-fold:
1) How to start a business
2) To mentor others either starting up or running EV businesses
I would not ask this question if I thought adding and maintaining additional forums would require more work on the part of the good people who already host and administer this site...
Thoughts please?
and success to all
tks
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To: ev@listproc.sjsu.edu, ausev@austinev.org
Subject: Starting business...
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 09:03:39 -0400
From: kenscircus@aol.com
Hey all, this is a bit premature, but I thought I would throw this out
there for some feedback.
I am starting a business producing electronic stuff for EVs. My
intention is to help the EV world and build myself a retirement
business. It will certainly take some time because I still have a "day
job", but, this is what I have been doing at my "day job" since the
80's.
I have named it Hot Juice Electric and have started a "beginners"
website. http://www.hotjuiceelectric.com.
Comments, suggestions, advice???
Ken
*** end of Kens message ***
I love the EVDL, but I think folks on ES might agree with me, that the technology (text-based mailing list) is flawed... it is like drinking from a firehose, and messages are hard to find later in the archives.
All sorts of folks drive all sorts of EVs for all sorts of reasons.
Some here aboard ES are in EV or EV-related businesses, and some may be interested in starting up or getting into this business.
I'm assembling (slowly) my next-generation scooter, and I consider it a prototype for future production, although I have not organized the effort formally yet, as a registered enterprise.
So my question is, would folks aboard ES be interested in a forums section all about the EV business world. There might be separate forums about advertising and promotion, financing, import/export, training and supervising staff, developing business plans, etc...
There is a lot more to any business besides just product knowledge.
Gawd help me, I have squandered most of my life as a combat accountant, but I have academics in marketing too, and a little schooling in physics and chemistry and engineering. As accountant, been a supervisor and Business Manager...
A lot of startups are one-man bands, and doomed to fail.
Business requires a range of skills, and many get into biz because they are good as marketers or as engineers etc, but these are not a rounded skill set.
The objectives of opening up one or more business-related forums might be two-fold:
1) How to start a business
2) To mentor others either starting up or running EV businesses
I would not ask this question if I thought adding and maintaining additional forums would require more work on the part of the good people who already host and administer this site...
Thoughts please?
and success to all
tks
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