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Public Company Executives Rarely Adapt To A Startup

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These instincts kill you in a small company, where requiring more resources is a negative. This is one of the harder transitions for people joining small businesses. Small-company heroes are consistently self-reliant. These conditions don’t apply in a small business. Forget your staff and entourage.

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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Bootstrap Their Startup

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Yet, according to many sources , over 90 percent of all businesses are started and grown with no equity financing, and many others would have been better off without it. According to the book, “ Small Business, Big Vision ,” by self-made entrepreneurs Adam and Matthew Toren, it’s really a question of need versus want.