When my parents passed away, the family had to clear out their house to prepare it for sale. My brother and his wife came across a stack of report cards for my K-12 education. The stack included my kindergarten report card.
When I thought about the “Personal and Social Growth” items on my kindergarten report card, I recognized the kinds of behaviors that should be exhibited throughout our lives, not just in kindergarten.
Nobody knows your business better than you. But can you explain it? There’s no doubt that you’ve been asked hundreds of times what your company does, even if it’s by your family and friends. The day will come, however, when potential investors, business partners, and customers start asking what your business does. The last thing you want is to confuse them.
“Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.” – Anthony Storr, psychiatrist
In this current “Information Age” there is no shortage of advice. For entrepreneurs, it is everywhere from family members and co-workers to news articles and blog posts such as this one. My major problem is separating the bad advice from the good. To make things easier on my fellow entrepreneurs, here are two very cliché pieces of advice that have always resonated with me.
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