The Moses: A Baby Business Under Siege Pt. 1

 

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The Moses: A Baby Business Under Siege

Welcome back to The Workshop L.LO.  Microwave Information for Proprietorships and original Micro-shops.  Let's begin with a short recap on Baby Moses, then we'll jump right into the long-form blog.

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About Baby Moses:  The main things to know that are part of the structural components of this presentation are.. 1. that baby Moses was to be killed as part of a decree by the Pharaoh of Egypt to eliminate all Hebrew baby boys.  2. that he was put into The Nile River in a basket in an attempt to save his life.  3. that he was found by the Pharaoh's daughter and was kept and raised among the Egyptian royals.. essentially among foreigners.

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The first thought and question in this matter is.. "What kind of decree are we looking at?" when we talk about A Baby Moses in the world of business and commerce?  Next is.. "What does that look like?"  

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In a ultra-modern free world we are seldom aware of some of the historical methods of Big Business Shutouts, Corporate Black Balling, and even the extremities of Excommunicating persons from their families and communities through the use of scandal and smear.  Perhaps it's the glaze of the big bustling marketplace feel of social media in 2026, and the commonplace free grant for minority and women business owners and startups that steal away the thought.  However, under the draw and the glaze, there still lie a constant threat and many giant bullies.  At the movies and in nationally televised interviews, still, we cannot grasp the commonplaceness of the matter.  It all seems individual and memoir.  There's no round up on the beast that torment many baby businesses, but rather, we listen, watch, and read one story isolated from another that has miraculously surfaced to the light of day seemingly the reward for the tenacious, tireless, and unrelenting determination of a single business champion.  

In reality, there's a snowball of effects that are meant to riot against small business, new startups, and ventures that are even still in research phases.

To answer the question of "What kind of decree?".. kill remains standard.  It's the kill, steal, destroy battlecry that is often at the forefront of most campaigns against small and new ventures.  The double-edged nature of the visibility sword is that businesses are easier to find in a social media era, and the commonality of triangulation means that one or two additional clicks can open up a fox den to a small, innocent, bright-eyed business person.         

It may not be the same for an MBA program, but nowhere in the 11-week Micro Business workshop I completed twenty-one years ago and again in my lessons for Small Business Management, and other targeted professions were market hostility or corporate smear tactics prepared for.  Instead, from business ethics to competitive strategy, it all feels like an interior design project.  With all of this, students are kept in an empowered and upbeat mind-frame that cannot readily ascertain the likes of a truly 'Au Fait' attack. 

What often makes these attacks destabilizing are the amount of systems and community in place to make them happen.  Think computer hackers, talent searches, church scandal, bought-out support systems, and many more are the weapons of an upheld kill-decree.  Big companies and well known market leaders hide corporate umbrellas (protecting smaller businesses in their networks that appear to be similar or equal in naiveté, but are far more inclined), swallow up competitors, and knock off intellectual authorship-- setting startup ventures behind or sending them back to a laborious drawing board.   

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The truth is that everything on your mood board and vision board is currently being enjoyed by someone else.  It doesn't mean it's not available.  It also doesn't mean that you won't be that champion business that outlasts the hostility that comes with entering certain industries.  It just means that you have to see yourself as shifting and moving market shares when you enter a marketplace.  Naturally there are devices in place to offset the number of entries or volatility that affects some markets.  Generally, this is known as barriers to entry.  None of this is fun, or particularly easy to move around, but the last thing a bright-eyed business startup and its founder wants to find out is that there's been a kill decree.  However, if your baby business has found itself to be a Baby Moses, here's some recompense.

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The Rewards of this Test

Just like Moses, expect to be multi-lingual; understanding different positions within the dilemma.  Expect to gain great wisdom and understanding as you find ways to counter attacks and setbacks.  You can also expect to become defensible; not just rallying back from each takedown, but setting your business up for success with realtime awareness that creates an impenetrable shield. 

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Coming Up! 

In part 2 of this blog, I'll outline ..

How to Recognize the Threat

How to Hang Low

Finding the Gateway

The Risks

                               and more!!