3 Tips On Starting a New Business From A Start Up

Tony Kereluke • June 21, 2017

Top Shelf Franchising - Start Up Tips

Are you going through the process of starting a new business or looking at a location to open? Or simply firing up a new concept from a start up.
Our team of seasoned entrepreneurs have been involved in over 7 successful start ups. Yes all successful! It's one thing to start a business then it's a hole other kettle of fish to transition the start up to successful levels.

3 Steps of Recommendation when firing up a business:

1. Surround yourself who has done it before and sponge around other entrepreneurs who have tasted success. As too many know it all or have their opinion however many people have never tasted success as an entrepreneur. So try and be around others within this fashion.

2. Feel the streets and marketplace of your place of business. Spend time at the local star bucks and watch who is coming and going and do this for weeks. Drive the area with determination to learn and feel the vibe of the market. Talk to other business owners and others who live in the area and get their feedback. Keep in mind that not all will say good things and could be that they are not in a good place so take the feedback with a grain of salt.

3. Keep it lean and get quotes from other vendors to compare pricing. Many do not shop around enough and hustle and then essentially the start up costs rise due to not being aggressive on this front.

Tony Kereluke
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What's Trending?

By Tony Kereluke • May 6, 2025
What's Trending? Businesses With Cash Flow & Hard Assets/Safe Haven's With the recent turmoil in stocks correcting and swinging around like a yo yo in a kids playground. Individuals & smart money investors are seeking out hard assets/ small businesses & franchises with cash flow. I receive hundreds a calls a month from buyers looking for cash flow and focused on hard assets. This sounds like a solid simple plan of attack and is working for a select group of smart money investors. Safe haven demand is at the highest level in a very long time. No one knows what will happen tomorrow or next month with the market or economy so why not take control your own future this way. If you are looking to diversify away from financial instruments and be in the drivers seat of your hard earned work. Why not start a side hustle? Or partner up to buy a franchise business in a great location? Or add onto your existing business portfolio and purchase another business. This I am seeing a demand in calls & especially over the past 6 months. I am a big fan of physical bullion gold and silver and have invested a great deal in this space over the past 5 years and returns are there. Here is a chart of Gold 5 year and one year as of MSN money app in USD funds. Gold Per Ounce 3405 USD ‎+81.80 (‎+2.46%) Today USD PAST YEAR • AS OF MAY 6, 10:05 A.M. EDT ‎+1,073.20 (‎+46.04%) USD PAST 5 YEARS • AS OF MAY 6, 10:06 A.M. EDT ‎+1,659.10 (‎+94.98%) USD While the S +P index YTD to date is seeing a loss YTD YTD • AS OF MAY 6, 10:06 A.M. EDT ‎-282.47 (‎-4.80%) 33.40 Silver Per Ounce ‎+0.90 (‎+2.76%) Today USD PAST YEAR • AS OF MAY 6, 10:01 A.M. EDT ‎+5.99 (‎+21.89%) USD YTD • AS OF MAY 6, 10:02 A.M. EDT ‎+4.12 (‎+14.08%) This type of hard physical asset is yours only and holds no counter party risk. It is recommended to have safe storage in higher amounts & can always be sold and turned into a fiat currency anytime you wish. It's a flight for safety and a safe haven, and is working as world fiat dollars de-value with inflation chewing away slowly at it. One suggestion is to not do what everyone else does. In fact you may want to look at the opposite first. Then do your own due diligence. While I do not give out financial advice you are welcome to speak with your advisor who most likely will not talk about gold or silver or investing into a small business and will push there financials instruments so they can obtain a fee from there bank. So it is important to talk to many others in different fields. Try not to trust one source to park your cash or plan your retirement. It's just too risky to let it all ride on whim of a financial instrument and hope it keeps going up. As there is nothing better than controlling your own destiny in life. Master your own destiny is the way to go and work for it and build it they will come.