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Alvin Cordeiro shared thisThe funny thing about perspective is that you can change it by simply looking through a new pair of glasses https://lnkd.in/gM4JZX5zAlvin Cordeiro shared thisMost professionals are already sitting on business capability. They just don’t recognize it because it doesn’t look like “entrepreneurship.” A project manager who coordinates five departments under pressure. A sales leader who spots patterns in buying behavior before the data confirms it. An operations director who quietly fixes inefficiencies no one else even sees. None of that feels like a business idea. It feels like a job. But if you step back, those are transferable operating systems. Decision-making. Constraint management. Resource allocation. Communication under tension. The market does not care whether you learned those skills inside a company or outside of one. It only cares whether those skills solve a real problem for someone willing to pay. What creates friction is not capability. It’s translation. Most people think they need something new. A certification. A disruptive concept. A passion they haven’t discovered yet. Often what’s actually required is a clearer line between what they already do well and where that competence intersects with local demand and realistic revenue timing. That translation work is harder than it sounds. It forces honest questions. What am I consistently good at? What do people already trust me with? Where does this create measurable value? When that alignment appears, business stops feeling like a leap. It starts feeling like a continuation. That’s usually the shift I see before someone moves.
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Alvin Cordeiro shared thisHave you ever thought: “Maybe I should start a business someday…” …and then had no idea what it would actually be? You’re not alone—and there’s a smarter way to explore that question. 👉 PracticalBusinessPlans.comThe Practical Business Fit™ Framework | Find the Right Business Before You BuildThe Practical Business Fit™ Framework | Find the Right Business Before You Build
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Alvin Cordeiro shared thisI created PracticalBusinessPlans.com after watching too many capable people chase business ideas that were never a good fit for them in the first place. Most business advice starts with the idea. I believe that’s backward. This platform starts with you—your experience, skills, interests, financial reality, and the local market you actually live in. From there, we focus on feasibility before excitement, clarity before commitment, and realism before risk. PracticalBusinessPlans.com is built to answer the questions people rarely get clear answers to early enough: Can this business realistically make money soon? Is this a good match for my background and strengths? Does this idea work in my local market—not just online or in theory? What am I actually signing up for in terms of time, income, and effort? Instead of generic templates or motivational advice, the process here is analytical, personalized, and practical. Submissions are reviewed with the goal of identifying business paths that make sense now, not someday—especially for professionals who want to avoid costly mistakes, wasted time, or blind leaps. PBP exists to help people make smarter decisions before they invest money, quit a job, buy a business, or commit to an idea that doesn’t truly fit them. If you value clarity, realism, and thoughtful planning over hype, you’re in the right place.The Practical Business Fit™ Framework | Find the Right Business Before You BuildThe Practical Business Fit™ Framework | Find the Right Business Before You Build
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Alvin Cordeiro shared thisWith Practical Business Plans you can have a detailed report providing what you need to vet startup ideas tailored to your professional experience, passions, time availability, and income needs. All measured against service gaps in the city, county, and state you wish to work. Check out this example. https://lnkd.in/gVhEmQZ7
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Alvin Cordeiro shared thisThinking about starting a business? Here’s the question most people don’t ask early enough: “Can this realistically make money in the next 60–90 days?” If the answer is unclear, you’re gambling—not planning. This is why feasibility comes before passion. 👉 Start with clarity: PracticalBusinessPlans.com
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Alvin Cordeiro shared thisMost people don’t need more business ideas. They need fewer, better-fitting ones. Generic lists ignore: • Your career leverage • What you already know • What your market actually needs That’s how people waste months chasing ideas that were never viable for them. A smarter first step: Assess your skills and experience already laid out in your resume, consider your interests and what you're passionate about, then evaluate how to leverage your skills and interests to provide services needed in the community your business will serve. That’s the foundation of every strong plan.
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Tracey Tait ☕ "Bit like parenting" I had no idea what I was stepping into there either. 🤣
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Career transitions like this highlight something hiring markets often miss - capability doesn’t always look familiar on paper. Teachers especially tend to be filtered out not because of lack of skill, but because their experience hasn’t been translated into business language yet.
What stands out is how much access depends on someone willing to interpret potential, not just credentials. Classroom experience builds skills that map directly to sales - stakeholder management, persuasion, adaptability under pressure - but those signals are easy to overlook without context.
A practical step I’ve seen help is reframing teaching outcomes into measurable business impact: engagement driven, problems resolved, environments stabilized. Once that translation happens, conversations shift quickly.
This pattern shows up frequently with career changers, which is part of why I built PracticalBusinessPlans.com - helping professionals pressure-test how their existing skills align with real market demand before committing to a new direction. Curious what moment told you your transition was finally gaining traction.
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One of the hardest parts of this stage is that the career game shifts from performance to positioning, but the feedback mechanisms don’t evolve with it. People keep optimizing output while decisions around them are increasingly shaped by visibility, influence, and perceived replaceability.
What many discover around this point is that technical excellence becomes table stakes rather than protection. The real leverage starts coming from clarity around where your expertise intersects with organizational priorities or market demand, not just how well the work is executed.
A practical lens I’ve seen help is mapping influence alongside impact: who depends on your work, what decisions change because of it, and whether that value is visible beyond your immediate team. That often reveals why capable professionals feel exposed despite strong performance.
This transition point is also where many begin reassessing whether the environment fits their long-term trajectory at all, which is part of why I built PracticalBusinessPlans.com - helping professionals pressure-test how their skills translate into real opportunities beyond a single organizational structure.
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