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Starting Your Own Business

Strategy Driven

Especially if this is your first venture as an entrepreneur, being realistic about your goals and expectations is fundamental in maintaining your sanity. Owning your own business has a steep learning curve and every day will have its own lesson. Set reasonable and realistic goals. Find a mentor.

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3 Surprising Ways Small Businesses Waste Money

Strategy Driven

When you are new to the business world, mistakes are an unavoidable element of your learning curve. It doesn’t have to be; nobody was born a knowledgeable entrepreneur. Identifying areas of improvements can finance your future success. Let’s get things straight from the start: Not everything you do will be perfect.

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Stephen Schwarzman’s 25 Rules for Work & Life

Leading Blog

This is where he really learned about finance and discovered his strengths. When you’re young, only take a job that provides you with a steep learning curve and strong training. Successful entrepreneurs, managers, and individuals have the confidence and courage to act when the moment seems right.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

You must choose to get off the sideline and into the game, then you must choose to endure the learning curve, and finally you must choose to deploy the needed resources to be successful. The Key to Success Success or failure in social media is nothing more than making a simple set of good choices.

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How to Pick a Co-Founder

Harvard Business Review

If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. But a long-term relationship can help you leapfrog the learning curve of the close collaboration, which can sometimes take years to develop. Different operational skills. Doing so presents its own risks.

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Here's a Better Way to Remember Things

Harvard Business Review

A group of Brazilian entrepreneurs who have come north for a week's worth of ideas on growing their ventures, are leaving a class, when one of them breaks from pack toward the coffee maker, where I'm heading too. Does this opportunity require learning new terms, concepts, or narratives? Excuse me?," I say, unsure he's talking to me.