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Risk Avoiders Are Opportunity Missers: 10 Excuses Business Owners Make

YoungUpstarts

And when you’re bootstrapping a business, a mistake can be even more costly than not leveraging a chance for advancement. Those words are most often uttered by small business owners in reference to marketing. Thinking Aloud business risk risk Tom Panaggio' Excuse # 2: “I tried that once, and it didn’t work.”.

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13 Of The Biggest Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (That May Not Seem Like Mistakes At All)

YoungUpstarts

To a small business owner who has a small number of customers, losing just one customer has a significant impact on organizational health. As a small business owner, of course you’re going to try to cut costs and stretch the budget wherever possible. Being cheap about the wrong things. pat yourself on the back.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Dedicated To Steve Jobs, Reinforcing Mission To Restructure Capitalism

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Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs often mistakenly engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors. Dan Stewart, from Tampa/St. This, of course, doesn't mean that we discourage entrepreneurs from seeking financing.