You have possibly heard about the statistics; more than 70 percent of businesses do not live to see their first birthday!
Many of the victims of business mortality are afflicted by "entrepreneurial seizure" which is the thinking that if a person knows how to do the technical work of a business then they are automatically suited to own and run a business that does that kind of work.
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