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Capitalization: Observation 43. Mining money stored in the future to make honey today. 2023

May 08, 2024 Mark Rubin Season 1 Episode 43
Capitalization: Observation 43. Mining money stored in the future to make honey today. 2023
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Capitalization: Observation 43. Mining money stored in the future to make honey today. 2023
May 08, 2024 Season 1 Episode 43
Mark Rubin

Observation:

This story highlights the innovative approach of using a beekeeping business model to teach children about entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, and financial planning. The concept involves selling beekeeping kits and pre-selling honey to fund the business, thus teaching children valuable lessons in market value, customer marketing, and sales. It emphasizes the importance of understanding one's local economic environment and the potential of tapping into it creatively.

The Lesson:

Entrepreneurship and environmental sustainability can be effectively taught to young people through practical, innovative business models like beekeeping.

How this is Helpful:

  1. Entrepreneurship Training: Encourages entrepreneurial skills in children.
  2. Environmental Awareness: Promotes understanding and appreciation of nature.
  3. Financial Literacy: Enhances understanding of market dynamics and financial planning.


Questions for Reflection:

  1. Understanding Local Economy: How well do I understand the economic potential of my surroundings?
  2. Business Viability: Can I identify and seize opportunities for sustainable business in my community?
  3. Environmental Contribution: How can my business endeavors contribute positively to the environment?


For more ‘Practical Dreaming’, visit https://www.markianrubin.life/practical-dreaming 

Show Notes Transcript

Observation:

This story highlights the innovative approach of using a beekeeping business model to teach children about entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, and financial planning. The concept involves selling beekeeping kits and pre-selling honey to fund the business, thus teaching children valuable lessons in market value, customer marketing, and sales. It emphasizes the importance of understanding one's local economic environment and the potential of tapping into it creatively.

The Lesson:

Entrepreneurship and environmental sustainability can be effectively taught to young people through practical, innovative business models like beekeeping.

How this is Helpful:

  1. Entrepreneurship Training: Encourages entrepreneurial skills in children.
  2. Environmental Awareness: Promotes understanding and appreciation of nature.
  3. Financial Literacy: Enhances understanding of market dynamics and financial planning.


Questions for Reflection:

  1. Understanding Local Economy: How well do I understand the economic potential of my surroundings?
  2. Business Viability: Can I identify and seize opportunities for sustainable business in my community?
  3. Environmental Contribution: How can my business endeavors contribute positively to the environment?


For more ‘Practical Dreaming’, visit https://www.markianrubin.life/practical-dreaming 

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My name is Mark Rubin, and I'm a dream weaver. I hope these widgets help you weave your dreams into reality. This story is about capitalization, and about getting money and getting money to fund the development of the beebox regenerative business system, which is the way I'm going to be demonstrating a regenerative business model. Using these ideas and the secrets of the bees at home I models of business visualization and energy transfer. And when I was putting this together, I was thinking about the costs of these kits that I'm going to be selling in the next year or two. These are the bee business kits in a box. Basically, you buy everything you need to operate a beekeeping business, small scale backyard beekeeping business, to hives, for kids to learn the secrets of the bees. Through the book, honey is money. And the boring game, the box, the business of the bees. And this is the real life version of the board game. This is the board game in real life wishes to take all the lessons learned from playing the board game, and apply them in real life with real money and real customers and real bees. And create a world where people live in harmony with the rest of nature. This is the way I'm going to do it. And I'm planning to create 10,000 beekeepers by the year 2030. But one of the, I guess, perceived barriers of this is that the beehives, the kits, and the business toolkit will be expensive, according to some ways of looking at things. And people that I've been explaining this idea to the first response is that it's too expensive. And that obviously won't work. And I get this all the time in my life like not just with money, but like the limited thinking of people in their conceptualization of things that basically match their view of the world. So I want to take some time here and explain how these B kits are going to be capitalized and funded. And this what I'm going to describe is something I've done before, it has to do with mining money stored in the future, which is basically mining a sales funnel. And an earlier video in this series about software I created called Cloud miner. And Cloud Miner is software that optimizes is a sales funnel. Salesforce is software that organizes a sales funnel, and cloud miner sits on top of Salesforce and optimizes it and it pulls jobs from the future today. And what this does is it reduces the future cancellation rate. Because once a job is completed and the money's in the bank, the customer can't cancel it. And so in the business that I have this junk removal business, we will have on any given day, across all the franchises that I own a couple million dollars worth of money in the future, meaning people booked jobs in the future, not for today. And so the question is, how many of those jobs could I move from the future to today, and therefore prevent them from canceling later. And since I know the future cancellation rate as a function of the days out from today, I can prove that this process creates millions of dollars a year, because it reduces the future cancellation rate by a known percentage. And that reduction would not have happened. Had I not done this optimization. Carrying that concept forward is the idea that's related to selling next year's honey today. So what I want to describe as a way to fund these bee kits I'm gonna make I'm going to sell these bee kits for somewhere between 2000 hours and 4000 hours per kit. Now the equipment cost of this stuff would be about $1,000. Like if they bought at full retail from a website from a company that sells B equipment be about $1,000 that includes two hives, B su tools, smoker frames, all the stuff you need. That's a lot. It's a lot for a kid. It's a lot for a lot of people $1,000 But I'm gonna charge a minimum of $2,000 $2,000 and people have been explaining this to us like that's crazy. No one's ever gonna buy this beehive kit. But don't forget, I told her earlier story. I'm aware of the money around me. Where I lived in 1985 was close to where I live now in 1985. I could walk to $500 million a year being spent by people. So half a billion dollars of money was Being smart, or I could walk my little feet in a radius around my two mile radius around my house. And it's bigger now. So there's money all around us. There's honey all around us, and honey grows on trees. And money grows on trees, if you live near other people that are spending money to buy stuff, if you live in a part of a world where people buy things, then there's plenty of energy around us. And the question is, how much can be intercepted? And how hard is it to get by providing value in different ways for products and services. This is part of the thinking of what I'm trying to put in people's minds, especially these kids about abundance and about money that's around them. The way that this is gonna work. This funding, I'm going to create software to operate these businesses, these be businesses, and the first module, or the second module in this thing that I'm going to create is about a business plan. And the business plan is going to ask these kids questions about where they live, what the average household income is, and how many houses they can walk to, and how many people do they know? And what are their names and phone numbers, and email addresses and addresses. And you put all this stuff in this plan. And it's going to generate a business plan that's going to tell them how much money is around them. That business plan is going to go to these kids parents, and the kids parents can ask questions about it, or approve it. And if the parents approve it, then the kids will go execute the next module, which is the Marketing Module followed by the sales module and gather money from these future customers to pre sell next year's honey. Now, he capitalized now with an IOU to the customers in the future that next year look, give him honey. Now, this does a lot of things first, teaches these kids the concept of a business plan and market value, customers marketing sales. And trust, the idea that if you promise you're going to deliver something, you have to do it. I think that if a kid sells 100 jars of next year's honey at $20 a jar, then there's enough money to make this game work. And I don't think that's that hard to do. And the other thing is, is if a kid can't do this, if a kid can't sell 100 jars of honey in advance, then they can sell them after the fact. Okay, so like knowing who can sell things in advance is important to reducing risk. So if there's a kid that can play this game, and you call up grandma and call the cousins, call the schools call the local businesses, call people to pre sell next year's honey 20 options are the most inspirational honey in the world. That's the kind of kid that's gonna thrive with this kind of system. And if they can't do it, then spending $2,000 for $1,000 worth of equipment doesn't make sense, because that's just the first module of many modules. And the modules will cover marketing, sales operations, HR, finance, admin, and special projects. And so I'm looking for people who can make it through these filters so they can learn how to thrive in business and in life and learn all those skills. And I just think that this approach for capitalizing the business by mining money stored in the future is the best approach for teaching kids about business.