A Micro-Incubator
The purpose of 8 Paths is to brand a methodology that solves a business problem or need by hiring people suited to provide a solution to that need.
8 Paths then guides the evolution of the solution into a business unit, which eventually grows beyond 8 Paths LLC and evolve into its own business with its own income stream, value stream and ownership configuration.
"Making Stuff"
Making Stuff is important to our economy and almost all of 8 Paths resources are dedicated to helping develop improved methodologies to help companies that make stuff to succeed in today’s globally competitive marketplace.
Understand how to make things, the technologies of making things like robotics and additive manufacturing and new innovations in materials and the ecosystems that support a company’s ability to make stuff in a competitive way and technology that helps a company sell the stuff they make in a competitive way.
Our experience helps us help firms involved with manufacturing technology, robotics, mechatronics, manufacturing industries goods, gaming equipment, pro-sumer products and Life Science Engineering and Wearable Technologies
Active Lifestyle
After “making things,” 8 Paths has an interest in understanding the business ecosystems of lifestyle sports such as those of the Surf, Skate & Snowboard industry and Women Extreme Sports like Roller Derby, Rugby, Martial Arts and Boxing. Both ecosystems have many common elements – a dedicated group of amateurs who pour energy and time into developing their skills and testing those skills in competition, a growing fan base who watch directly and support a professional level of competition, and a wider lifestyle audience who are interested in products and services that help them associate with the lifestyle, even if they do not directly participate or watch.
8 Paths has the ambition to adapt its leads generation, social media and marketing methodologies to help entrepreneurs, especially oriented towards the amateur levels to be more successful and gain a greater percentage of the ecosystem profitability. A smarter and disciplined approached to business development should be possible for these dedicated amateurs who are dedicated to their sports and are meeting a market need through a related product or service.
Entrepreneurship
8 Paths uses technology to help our brands achieve the greatest value for the least cost. Social media, cloud based ERP/CRM systems like NetSuite and Averiware, email systems like Chimpmail and Constant Contact and other tools help us quickly deploy a new brand, get targeted and efficient exposure and achieve goals against specific metrics in our methodology that allows us to develop a brand into a business unit and eventually spin the business unit off to make room in our portfolio for additional ventures.
Dedicated Team
We believe in hard work, trust, relentless dedication and networking to find others who are believers and have something to contribute or with whim shared connections can create an efficiency or effectiveness not possible otherwise.
8 Paths represents 8 ideas and approaches to business and life that can make a difference in both what we achieve as individuals and what we achieve as a society. If you know one of the 8 Paths managers you can ask the specifics of how 8 Paths got its name.
Services
8 Paths is about entrepreneurship and about a belief that one can get ahead – even in a profit based business – by helping others, networking freely, and using guiding principals to help guide the day-to-day decisions of a new and growing company.
Profit for a company is the equivalence of health for the body. Life with the sole purpose of remaining healthy is an empty life. A career spent at a company with a sole purpose of profit is an empty career. A life dedicated to a purpose while maintaining health is a great, just as a career with a company that has a purpose while maintaining profit can be a great career.
Of course Social Engineering gives us additional opportunities for both profit- based and non-profit approaches to making a positive impact on the world.
Values
Our focus is on business growth and profit. Still, while profit is a good measure for the health of an organization, the health of any person or company is hard to maintain without purpose and without mission. These fundamentals can help you focus on what is important, make good decisions and develop and execute successful plans.
At 8 Paths we ask, "Why not help make the world a better place while fulfilling your mission?" This is what leads us to draw together as a team; to develop our own successful businesses and help others develop successful profitable businesses. Businesses that, while they might not quite achieve world peace, can make a difference by encouraging employees, customers, vendors, partners and anyone else they touch, to take actions that help the world along any of the 8 Paths.
Social Media
8 Paths uses technology to help our brands achieve the greatest value for the least cost. Social media, cloud based ERP/CRM systems like NetSuite and Averiware, email systems like Chimpmail and Constant Contact and other tools help us quickly deploy a new brand, get targeted and efficient exposure and achieve goals against specific metrics in our methodology that allows us to develop a brand into a business unit and eventually spin the business unit off to make room in our portfolio for additional ventures.
Social