Mistakes to be avoid by startups
If you are starting a business, there are few things that you need to remember. Avoid the following mistakes to get better success.
- Not researching your target market
- Incomplete business plan
- Obtaining loans from friends and family
- Expecting immediate profit
- Not focusing on the client
- Disregarding controlled testing
- Counting on your own legal and accounting skills
- Trusting verbal agreements
- Attempting to try and do everything alone
- Sacrificing personal relationships for the business
- Doing what you like
- Ignoring the competition
- Not taking under consideration your own strengths and weaknesses
- Not understanding what you’re really selling
- Not ensuring you have got enough cash
- Not investing in marketing
- Not understanding technology
- Keeping a 24-7 operating schedule
- Too several calls to and from family and friends
- being too busy to remain organized
- Beginning each day without an idea
- Weak monetary designing
- Setting non-realistic, non-measurable goals
- Hiring wrong individuals
- Not planning ahead
- Waiting long to sell
- Selling to the incorrect person
- Not having enough emergency funds
- Not having a backup plan
- Focusing an excessive amount of on results
- Lack of strategy
- Not executing the strategy as needed
- No room for criticism
- Led by too many opinions
- Losing /diverting focus
- Acting on assumptions
- Underestimating manpower wants
- Unhealthy pricing
- Concentrating completely on sales
- Extending credit too early
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