Short excerpt from a YouTube video in which speaker Sachin Patel argues that the first "energy center" of any business is relationship capital. He claims entrepreneurs enter businesses 'naked' in terms of products, programs, and assets, but always bring personal and professional relationships (self, family, friends, mentors) as foundational resources.
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So the first energy center in your business is relationship capital. So all of us start a business, and we walk into that room or walk into that business completely naked. Except for the relationships that we have. We may not have a program. We may not have a product. We may not have a marketing message. We may not have any of the assets and tools that we need for our business. But what we all walk into that room with is relationships. Right. Of course. The relationship with ourself. A relationship with our parents and our friends and our loved ones. As far as I know, none of us were teleported here. And, you know, this very instant, we all have friends that we grew up with. We all have relationships. We all have friends. We all have mentors. We all have individuals that have positively impacted our lives. And so.