A person can survive for three weeks without food and three days without water, so says John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman in his book The SAS Survival handbook.
Start-up entrepreneurs might ask themselves: ‘how long can my business survive?’
We know cash-flow is key for business survival, how much money do I need? and where it should be spent?
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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
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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
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