Chris Brogan on Social Media Starter Tips to Grow Your Business
via entrepreneur.com
Startups die for lots of reasons. Of course the end game usually involves running out of money – until that point in time, you can still fight on (although it might not be worth it.) But at the root of many startup deaths is indecision, especially for first-time entrepreneurs and CEOs.
First-time entrepreneurs don’t have the benefit of past experience, and too often lack active investors, board members or mentors to help guide them. And there are a lot of decisions to be made when running a company. So many in fact that it can be easily overwhelming – for first-time entrepreneurs and repeat entrepreneurs as well.
source: http://www.instigatorblog.com/indecision-kills-startups/2009/12/16/
Doing sales isn’t typically one of the favorite things of most startup CEOs (and by extension, startup founding teams). Certainly they want sales (because sales = $$), but they don’t want to actually do the sales. This is a huge problem for startups.
read more: http://www.instigatorblog.com/startup-ceos-sales/2009/12/29/
