When starting a vending machine business look for used vending machines for sale. After you have established that the machine is in proper working order and you purchase the used vending machine your business is born.

Corporations have many constituents. But they seem to play to only one audience - the investment community or Wall Street. Any business is made up of workers, supervisors, managers and executives. They also have customers, suppliers and in many cases dealers or distributors. They have facilities in cities, towns and communities. Some have factories and others have only offices. But the fact is that all corporations touch the world they operate in beyond the narrow confines of where they raise money through investors - or Wall Street. So why do almost all corporations decisions revolve around how Wall Street will react? Are there alternatives?

I've been telling people this for several years. Why is it that we often focus on the task – solving a problem – much more that on the process?