Small business game show

After seeing him rip through question after question while bingeing on old episodes one night, she got him booked him for a tryout and a trip to New York.

Kim quit her job the following Monday. The startup failed, but it inspired her follow-up beauty brand, Chicago-based CurlMix , and taught her how to build a committed following. She didn't know then how crucial that last part would be. Kim: If you're Black in America, when you go into the office, you alter your hair to avoid discrimination. Black women grow up wearing chemical relaxers that straighten and damage our hair so we can fit in. By , my hair had begun falling out, and I asked Tim to shave it all off so I could let it grow back naturally.

Because I didn't trust the ingredients in existing products dedicated to curly hair, I started mixing things at home. Many of us were doing that. Tim: She would spend hundreds of dollars at Whole Foods and then hours making products that might not work--and leave me with the dishes. It included prepackaged, organic raw materials--flaxseeds, guar gum, hemp seed oil--along with an instructional video.

That's when I started looking at my customers--what do they actually want? It was our flaxseed gel. People had emailed asking us to send it to them ready-made, because it's a real pain to do yourself.

You have to boil flaxseeds, and it's really hard to separate the seeds from the gel. It's gooey. We started going to manufacturers to see if they would make it for us, and even they didn't want to. My adviser was like, "Why don't you just figure it out? Forget the Stuff! Tim: Kim was seven months pregnant.

She spent a month in the kitchen and tried 50 different batches to get the product right. Go to the above link and check it out. It's a great low-cost way of getting all your school inolved in enterprise. We are working with Promethean to develop the Small Business Game so as to bring improved functionality for teachers who are using the Game with their classes.

If you are using the Small Business Game and also have Promethean white boards, then please do get in touch with Andy Coughlin, andy tsbc. Posted by Andy Coughlin at No comments:.

Labels: Promethean and enterprise and business game. It gives an opportunity for students to see how planning ahead is important in making a project work.

A mapping activity is underway that shows how the game can be used to reflect how decision making impacts on the potential success or failure of projects. Labels: business game , Diploma in IT , enterprise. I've blogged on Playing for Success before. Load Error. Microsoft and partners may be compensated if you purchase something through recommended links in this article.

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