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Don’t worry if your business died. You just got a step closer to entrepreneurial heaven says Richard Myers, Commercial Director at Transmit Start-Ups. So, your first business didn’t work out the way you planned? You’ve had to call it quits or change direction? You’re back at the drawing board planning your next move? Congratulations – you’re now a fully-fledge...
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Many startups fail before they have a chance to fully establish themselves. Here are seven mistakes those startups are likely to make and importantly, how to avoid them. By James Ker-Reid, CEO of Sales For Startups, a specialist consultancy founded in 2017 and built on over a decade of experience in enterprise sales selling both technology services and products. While starting your own business ...
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Startup Graveyard digs up failed startups so you can hopefully avoid the same mistakes they made...We stumpled upon Startup Graveyard a few days ago, and thought it wise to share. It seems that the sites makers (We're not too sure who they are at the moment) have created Startup Graveyard as a resource for entrepreneurs to avoid making the same GRAVE mistakes that other, now failed start...
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Failure is not the opposite of success but part of it - So says the Fail Forward team, who highlight to Startacus 5 good things that can come from failure... There’s one word which strikes fear into the hearts of people: fail. It can come in the form of ‘’I’m going to fail my exam!’’ or even under the guise of ‘’I’m going to lose!’&rsquo...
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We all know that for every startup that succeeds, there are countless others that don’t. In fact, the stats, should you choose to read them can be pretty scary. However anyone who has ever been in a startup which failed will generally tell you that they learned so much - and sometimes much more than if things had all been plain sailing. The reality is that failing in a startup isn’t s...
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