Success is a matter of process and progress.  It doesn't happen overnight.  It isn't a result of a single event. It is a matter of intention, preparation, execution, and repetition.

Every business must develop a core set of business skills and competencies that are part of how day-to-day activities are accomplished.  These skills and competencies are executed in the context of long term strategies, recognize short term objectives, and utilize tactics that move the organization step-by-step to becoming a commercially viable, thriving business.

The challenges of establishing a new business and new technology are many.  The most visible inevitably are the need for funding, advancing the technology, and business development.  To navigate a new business path successfully, every business must be able to do the following:

1. Identify viable markets
2. Develop the “product” the market needs/wants
3. Establish an executable strategy
4. Develop business capability
5. Create a sound business structure
6. Capitalize the business
7. Prove the concept
8. Get the first paying customer