I've always known my range of knowledge regarding areas of a business were very heavily skewed towards the engineering side. As for knowledge of finance, operations, team building, sales, etc I'm mediocre.
My solution starting out was to focus on what I'm good at. Find a product who's engineering need serious improvement, and then just copy what the competition is doing to get sales. Make sure the product was high margin so I only have to kinda worry about the economics, etc...
But it's clear the biggest bottleneck my business is about to start facing is my knowledge of finance/accounting and how to use them to make effective decisions. Constant cash flow problems, unsure about how to handle new, more complex projects. etc.
I've found the following library of free MIT courses: Search | MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials
It's open access to courses from engineering, to operations, to finance, to project management, etc. They all seem to have lesson notes, and some have recordings of the classes on YouTube.
Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting:
Project Evaluation: Manufacturing System and Supply Chain Design:
These courses would be more time effective than getting an MBA for me; I'm sure you can find a course on whatever your knowledge bottleneck is. Just wanted to share in case it helps anyone.
My solution starting out was to focus on what I'm good at. Find a product who's engineering need serious improvement, and then just copy what the competition is doing to get sales. Make sure the product was high margin so I only have to kinda worry about the economics, etc...
But it's clear the biggest bottleneck my business is about to start facing is my knowledge of finance/accounting and how to use them to make effective decisions. Constant cash flow problems, unsure about how to handle new, more complex projects. etc.
I've found the following library of free MIT courses: Search | MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials
It's open access to courses from engineering, to operations, to finance, to project management, etc. They all seem to have lesson notes, and some have recordings of the classes on YouTube.
Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting:
Readings | Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting | Sloan School of Management | MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity
ocw.mit.edu
Readings | Manufacturing System and Supply Chain Design | Sloan School of Management | MIT OpenCourseWare
This section contains list of readings associated with the course material.
ocw.mit.edu
These courses would be more time effective than getting an MBA for me; I'm sure you can find a course on whatever your knowledge bottleneck is. Just wanted to share in case it helps anyone.
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