We read
often about entrepreneurs who have found success because of a hunch or fortuitous circumstance.
Not exact matches
Many burgeoning
entrepreneurs are too optimistic
about expenses,
often underestimating how much they're actually spending and finding themselves dealing with severe budget issues.
Think
about it,
entrepreneurs are
often trying to turn their personal passion into a business — and just need to find others to help achieve their goals.
Entrepreneurs often make the mistake of talking
about more general plans for the funding, such as marketing, Klaff says.
Sounds simple, but
often entrepreneurs underestimate actual product costs by excluding relevant costs (e.g., R&D) or making unrealistic assumptions
about scale economics.
LinkedIn career expert Nicole Williams says
entrepreneurs and individuals working in new fields such as social media or technology can especially benefit from inviting parents into their working lives, as their parents are most
often confused
about what their children working in these new fields do for a living.
Too
often when
entrepreneurs think
about innovating, they fall into a common trap: they start at the end.
Is there a key nuance of a great sales person that is not
often talked
about that could be useful for
entrepreneurs?
Entrepreneurs often face hard decisions
about resource allocation.
Entrepreneurs and small business owners tend to be very passionate
about their work and don't
often think
about their retirement as much as they should.
Yet new
entrepreneurs too
often fall into the trap of just getting the business started and worrying
about everything else later on.
Sometimes even the simple act of discussing your plan will highlight things you're unsure
about —
often, small, unresolved issues can be at the root of an
entrepreneur's anxieties.
Successful
entrepreneurs tend to be insatiably curious
about almost everything, and
often they are good at learning by doing.
The problem, as Khosla sees it, is that
entrepreneurs end up running in too many directions,
often at the poor direction of a board member who knows little
about the product or market.
I had been thinking a lot
about this recently because I'm
often asked what I look for in an
entrepreneur when I want to invest?
My consulting practice
often has my team and me facing situations where
entrepreneurs are living with regrets
about their impatience.
When we're not planning events, managing programs, or assisting WBEs and Corporate Members, you will
often find us out and
about at area events and conferences to network, promote WBENC, and support women
entrepreneurs.
In this video,
Entrepreneur Network partners Jason Balin and Chris Haddon want to help by taking questions they
often get from fans, colleagues and friends
about branding.
But it got me thinking
about how
often entrepreneurs overplay their PR so I thought I'd try to offer some advice and how to play PR with VCs (or more broadly with customers or business development partners)
Too
often you hear
about successful
entrepreneurs creating multi-million and billion dollar companies.
Leila also joked
about earning her «McDonalds MBA» as an employee at the fast food chain, which Forbes remarked is quite common for emerging market
entrepreneurs who
often learn everything they know
about business from previous employers.
I
often get asked
about the role of a board of directors by both
entrepreneurs and angels.
People
often say silly things
about other people's languages, such as George W. Bush's rumored claim that «The problem with the French is they have no word for
entrepreneur.»
If the
entrepreneur is surrounded socially by people with more bureaucratic or clock - in / clock - out types of careers, conversations
about work are
often on completely different plains.
Many
entrepreneurs create a business plan when first opening their businesses, but seasoned business leaders
often forget
about this valuable tool after being in their businesses for some time.
«It used to be you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals,» Srinivasan said
about entrepreneurs seeking funding,
often strolling up a strip to the west of Palo Alto that long has been associated with venture capital firms.
When people think
about becoming an
entrepreneur, they
often think they have to have a great invention and start from scratch.
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