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If you sell a product or a service that is truely bespoke, a one off, crafted for each individual customer and to satisfy a specific need; it’s likely the specification is crucial. Not only does the initial brief inform your activity it also leads to accuracy of the fee quotation and so how profitable the endeavour becomes. Working read more of Reward for your time Failure, I dislike the word intensely. The word failure delivers a sucker punch to hope, optimism and self-belief. As an alternative, I propose the word ‘lesson.’ Lesson conveys: an experience, one which we can evaluate, reflect and make our own minds up about. A natural outcome to any lesson is: we feel either positive or negative about the experience. If read more of Lessons not failures How many times have you had a great idea only to do nothing about it? If like me, your mind is constantly thinking of new schemes and improvements to existing products and services you’ll know it makes life interesting. If read more of Procrastination The tortoise and the hare; we know how it ends, it’s a story designed to convey the message that steady beats fast. How then does this fable apply to the start-up entrepreneur? While the tortoise researches, plans, anticipates the what ifs and proceeds steadily the hare can’t wait to make progress and speed off seemingly unconcerned about read more of Tortoise or Hare |
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