“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
Maimonides
Last year, Michael Dermer of the Lonely Entrepreneur & I launched the Tennessee Entrepreneur Initiative.
The premise was to have corporate and philanthropic funders pay the subscription fee for entrepreneurs to have VIP access to the Lonely Entrepreneur learning community.
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This learning community gives new business owners a one-stop-shop for every piece of knowledge, every resource, and every tool they could need to succeed.
Well, in light of covid19, this effort has taken on a life of its own, especially in the minority communities!
We'll see the legendary #43 NASCAR ICON drawing attention to our efforts as Richard Petty Motorsports has teamed up with us to help entrepreneurs around the country!
Wanna be a part of this? Are you an entrepreneur who could benefit from this?
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As you can see, this idea is literally "in motion" and picking up speed!!! Join us!!!
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WE ENVISION:
MORE SUCCESSFUL AMERICAN DREAMERS LEAVING A LEGACY
FEWER FAILURE RATES & MORE SUCCESS STORIES!
A SERIOUS REDUCTION IN UNEMPLOYMENT AND GOVERNMENT DEPENDENCY!
Entrepreneurs don't need another "course" or "workshop". They need day-to-day, interactive support for their pressing questions and they need the motivation to keep going on those hard days when they just want to quit. ESPECIALLY after covid-19!
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For many, entrepreneurship is their ticket out of poverty and off of government dependency and a chance to build a life they can be proud of!
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​Join our efforts and let's make a difference together!
​- Diane Canada
OUR STORY:
I'm Diane Canada and I met Michael Dermer, founder of The Lonely Entrepreneur Learning Community, in the Autumn of 2019. We immediately clicked because we share unusually profound compassion for entrepreneurs.
We have both been serial entrepreneurs, ourselves, and had each overcame the 2008 economic crisis as business owners and emerged successfully. We both even wrote books about our lessons in resiliency!
We were each helping entrepreneurs, as clients, in similar ways, with me in Nashville as a Business Consultant and Professional Speaker and Michael in New York with his successful online learning community and also as an author and Professional Speaker.
We began to brainstorm on ways to work together towards a common goal of helping as many entrepreneurs as we possibly can to not fail.​
One night, around 3am, the idea of TEI was divinely downloaded on me and we immediately began to build it out! ​Enlisting the help of the corporate and philanthropic community to invest in thousands of Tennessee's small business owners by sponsoring them into Michael's well-established business learning community, The Lonely Entrepreneur, could only end well for everyone.
THE WAR FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE SMALL BUSINESS OWNER
Competition is fierce to win the small business customer. It's hard to get their attention. They likely see you as just another company trying to "sell" them something.
Earning the role of "trusted advisor" to an entrepreneur is like gold.
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Tennessee corporations can win the hearts of small business owners by teaming with us to offer an unprecedented & FREE solution to their struggle...
HELP US HELP THEM!
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Lyneir Richardson, Former Head of Economic Development for Presidential Candidate Cory Booker Executive Director of the Rutgers Center for Urban Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (CUEED). Chief Executive Officer - The Chicago TREND Corporation (A MacArthur Foundation and Chicago Community Trust funded social enterprise aiming to stimulate retail development and accelerate neighborhood transformation.)
Entrepreneurship is essential to economic growth in our communities. Successful urban entrepreneurs constantly leverage new skills and knowledge. The Lonely Entrepreneur and its Learning Community provide educational resources and ongoing support to diverse individuals in all socioeconomic circles. I believe that the The Lonely Entrepreneur platform will enable us to reach our goal of helping a 1,000 urban entrepreneurs get to $1 million in annual revenue.