My good friend and colleague, Dr. Laura Pogue, owns Complete Consulting, LLC. Her company works with universities to integrate online instruction in graduate and doctoral-level management and leadership. Laura and I met at a Betty Friedan lecture where she and I were the only attendees under the age of 65 years old at the time. Dr. Pogue, sitting to my right, immediately reached into her purse and grabbed her business card. She shook my hand, announced herself—“Laura Pogue”—and proceeded to give me her business card. At the time, she was working as a financial manager for General Motors.
Shortly after we met, she took the golden handshake buyout to pursue her dream job followed by her leap into the entrepreneurial world. Her goal is to own an online accredited college that specializes in business. She is actively looking for investors, another way to finance your business in nutrition if you have not thought about this option. I love the way Laura Pogue describes an entrepreneur, “People with marbles in their head that would mortgage their house for their dream business.”
The upside of investors is that someone else’s money is used to finance your business. The downside is that you could lose control of your company and if investors acquire a large percentage of your business, they can fire you. A lot to think about! Check out Dr. Laura Pogue at http://www.completeconsultinginc.com/DrLauraPogue/
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