by Geofrrey Kent | Oct 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
If you surveyed entrepreneurs who have failed, and asked them why they believed they failed, I guarantee the vast majority of them are going to say it was because they lacked proper funding. What these entrepreneurs fail to understand is that the inability to get...
by Geofrrey Kent | Oct 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’ve provided counsel to hundreds of entrepreneurs over the last four decades. It’s hard not to get excited when an entrepreneur walks you through their idea for the next big thing! I love to ask entrepreneurs if they feel they’re cut out for the journey they’re about...
by Geofrrey Kent | Oct 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Show me a failed business, and I’ll show you a business founder that either didn’t write a business plan or didn’t properly execute the business plan they wrote. If the business founder failed to write a business plan, their probability of succeeding was about as high...
by Geofrrey Kent | Oct 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
At some point in the business building process, every entrepreneur has heard the words “You need to write a business plan”. The problem entrepreneurs encounter when they attempt to follow this advice, is that if you ask 1,000 experts how to write a business plan,...
by Geofrrey Kent | Oct 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Over the course of my career, I’ve started 15-20 entrepreneurial businesses (most of which failed). Fortunately, I’ve never made the same mistake twice. So, on a surface level, it would therefore seem that each business failed for a different reason. In hindsight,...