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11 Ways Entrepreneurs Fail

By on January 11, 2012 in Featured

Failing Rope

  1. You will lose some customers.
  2. You will lose some friends and family.
  3. You will lose the faith of investors.
  4. Your idea will become worthless.
  5. You will fail some of your employees.
  6. You will fail at keeping stress levels low.
  7. You won’t make the sale.
  8. You’ll be misunderstood.
  9. You won’t raise the money you think you need.
  10. You will fail yourself.
  11. Your business will eventually become obsolete.

Although this list is a downer, if you fail fast, you’ll get your failures out of the way and hopefully learn something along the way.

Based on a list from here.

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,199 posts to the site.

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