Top 5 Tips on Starting Your Own Business
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If you’re starting your own business, save yourself some headaches and take advice from people who have already been there, done that. Here are my top five tips, which I recently shared at the California Women’s Conference:
- It's all about the team. You can’t do it alone. Ask for help.
- Find a way to take away people's pain. Aim to create meaning for those who interact with your business.
- Always trust your intuition when making decisions. Every mistake I've made has been the result of not trusting my gut and giving my power away to someone/something else.
- Know that starting a business takes time. It's about hundreds of small steps daily, not one giant leap.
- Get really good at change, at uncertainty, at going with the flow and at not needing to control everything.
Bonus: Take care of yourself. You’ll need lots of energy for your team and your customers.
To read more advice from the California Women’s Conference, check out my blog post.
Posted: 5/30/09
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