If I've heard it once, I've heard it a thousand times "When my business gets big enough, I'll worry about that. Right now I just need to ..." you fill in the blank. It our hurry to get our business up and running, we ignore the obvious steps of learning about business and sketching out some basic plans.
I'm guilty of being in too much of a hurry to get my unique, wonderful, can't lose small business idea up and running now. I'll clean up the mess later.
Yet, when you talk to people who've made it down the road a ways, most of them will tell you they would of spend less time, money and stress if they'd just learned and planned a bit more.
My sense of things is that the "Hurry Up" mentality is moving in the direction of "Fill In the Blanks" as you go. It's becoming "OK" to Learn as You Go and Make Plansto guide you as you create and launch your small business.
I'm not suggesting you slow down, keep up a brisk pace, but save yourself some time and energy now so you're not worn out and out of cash later.
I remember the time when I was about to open my own internet café, I was so in a hurry to start up right away as the school year is about to begin, that I even ended up not having my business registered under iso 9001 registrar. It's a good thing our local government didn't sue me; instead they gave me a change to process my iso registration.
Posted by: Lance Fickes | March 26, 2011 at 02:26 AM