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Entrepreneurs Talk Shop, Passion and People
Originally Posted in Jacksonville’s Daily Record: Click For the Complete Article
While money, passion and vision are leading requirements for successful entrepreneurism, people top the list.
“Anybody that can find enough money can get the building and product, but you can’t buy the people,” said Nadine Gramling, who bought and sold Southeastern Metals and then started another company, the Bryson’s On The Avenue upscale furniture and accessories consignment retailer.
The challenge for entrepreneurs “has always been, is and will be to find, recruit and get the right people on the bus,” said Brian Barquilla, founder and publisher of the magazine “Jacksonville Small Business Advantage: The Resource for Small Business.”
Gramling and Barquilla joined entrepreneurs Brock Fazzini, Dea Sims and Grace Huxtable-Mount Thursday for the Entrepreneurial Success Panel at the Beaver Street Enterprise Center. The panel was part of the center’s Entrepreneurial Fair and Success Forum.
About 40 people attended the forum and trade show at the center. The facility, near Downtown, offers space for startup and existing small businesses. It is run by the nonprofit Core City Business Incubators as an initiative of Fresh Ministries.
Fazzini, CEO of Fazzini’s Coffee & Tea, said it was critical to find the people who shared the vision of the company owner. “It has to be a fit,” he said.
