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Matthew Thomas

Jacksonville, FL

American Serial Entrepreneur, Founder of Thomas Group – (7 startups grown to full running companies) At it’s core though it is responsible for coaching countless small businesses in Florida with monthly packages giving them access to one-on-one leadership coaching and everyday questions to the array of operational questions that come up throughout the business day.

I have a B.B.A in Finance & Management, M.B.A. in Finance, and a Doctorate in Business Administration

I combine real-life experience in business with my education to give entrepreneurs access to a vast knowledge base allowing them to thrive

$2.92/min

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Start-Up Coaching

This start-up coaching session is meant to go over all the ins and outs of starting a business from the legal entity formation to the requirements of every day-to-day operations. This session can be developed into a longer session and can dive into any of the following areas:

1- Initial Start-up steps
2- Entity Formation (Inc, LLC, Partnership, ect.)
3- Market Analysis (Research into the market)
4- Sales & Marketing, from print to digital and social media
5- Human Resources (employee, workforce, handbooks, policy, etc.)
6- Accounting & Finance set-up (QuickBooks, Timberline, other Accounting Software)
7-Financial Analysis and Sensitivity Analysis (basically: if this you make this change, then you can expect this result)
8- Growth & Business Expansion Coaching
9- Stress Management
10- Vendor/Supplier Relationship establishment and management
11- Financial Budgeting
12- Leadership Skills (my dissertation for my doctorate was on Servant Leadership in the small to mid-size businesses)
13- Change & Culture Management
14- Emotional Intelligence and how that effects the team
15- Team building
16- Myers & Briggs Analysis

Entrepreneurship Coaching

As a serial Entrepreneur and previous Chief Financial Officer, I have a plethora of experience in all accepts of small to mid-size businesses. During our coaching we will set goals for you and your business, that I will come along side you to aid in your achievement. What sets this coaching apart from other consulting engagements is, I will not perform a SWOT analysis then deliver a report. I will work through your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and possible threats; we will design and carry out an action plan with benchmarks and accountability markers throughout. This is not a bandaid for your business, this is a success package aimed at pumping life giving nourishment and propellant into the very embodiment of the business's existence. If you are ready to be the best in your industry and community, then it will take hard work, it will take a entrepreneurial coach like myself, there is no easy way to the top and it cannot be done alone.

Areas of focus: Finance, Accounting, Marketing, Human Resources, Business Growth, Stress Management, Emotional Intelligence, Vendor/Supplier Relationship, Change Management, Culture Management, Customer Service, Team Building, Market/Environment Analysis

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Is it worth working for someone else to learn from them or is it better to go out on your own?

This is a tuff one! As an entrepreneur, you will never be truly happy working for someone else. Not to say there is anything wrong with working for another company, it is just that entrepreneurs have a drive to innovate the process and shake up the market that just does not jive well with working for another person. Reading through your question, I would first suggest that you really think over the question at hand and make sure that your recent set back in business is not the driving factor to work for someone else. I have now started 9 businesses from scratch and of those nine, one of them was a failure. The failure gave me pause before I started another business, 6 months to be exact, I began to second guess myself. Once I moved though that by recognizing the driving factor, I was able to jump back out to my natural abilities again.
With this said, I will say that I learned many of the skills of consulting and business through my 2.5 years working for a consulting firm owned by someone else before I started my life as an entrepreneur. There is safety in learning while being paid! The other benefit to working under another developer is to gain access to His network of individuals and vendors while gaining the creditability that he holds. While working for him, you will be building your own credibility in the field so that when you step out, you will have instant credibility for your own business.

Please let me know if I can be of more help, I would welcome the opportunity to talk by phone with you to let you know how I was able to keep an open communication about my intentions of going out on my own while working for my soon-to-be competitors.

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