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Five Tips to Starting a Small Business

March 19, 2012

In today’s entrepreneurship, you are either succeeding or failing. Your business might be the next Apple, or it will be a dud.
Being an Educated, Experienced, Creative Professional (EECP) is not enough to survive a start-up. While there is a kind of rapid growth is the entrepreneur’s dream, it also creates problems and requires the difficult transition from having a great idea to making it happen. What will help you is to take a small, “smart step” toward something you desire to achieve.

Here are some hard-won lessons from INC Magazine for start-up survival which are worth more than a read—you might actually want to print them out.

 

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  1. Jessie says

    March 20, 2012 at 9:28 pm

    I personally like the third tip: “Stop worrying”. It is true that starting a business is a very challenging task and worrying can add to its stress. When you worry you will fail to take things in perspective which can cost you the business. Very timely post. Thanks for sharing.

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