Rob Spiegel shares his personal story of businesses he has started. Some failures, some successes. Here are his conclusions:
There are a couple things I’ve learned over the years. Get your nut [overhead] small. Find something you really, really like doing – you’re going to have to do it a lot, and you’re going to have to do it at weird hours, and if you have family, you’re going to have to do it while they’re around. Get some luck somewhere – rub Buddha’s belly, pick up every coin you find in a parking lot, even the pennies – I have this superstition that if you don’t pick up stray pennies, the universe won’t give you stray wealth. Ignore your former bosses. And don’t quit trying.
Read the whole article at Business Know-How, brought to our attention by the Small Office Herald (huge promoter of Link Leak).
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