Secrets to STARTUP SUCCESS
Purifying Your Entrepreneurial Passion
As I mentioned earlier in this chapter, avoiding the passion trap doesn’t require that you suppress your enthusiasm or commitment. Instead, the solution lies in elevating and focusing your positive energy, creating a more pure, potent, and sustainable brand of passion. Your startup idea deserves no less.
Here are four principles for purifying your startup passion, while also avoiding the dangers it might bring: understand it, connect it, strengthen it, and direct it.
Thanks to Internet search technology and social media interconnectivity, answers to most entrepreneurial questions can be found with a few clicks. I have attempted to list sources beyond the usual …
This tool can be used to: ■ Evaluate and improve a founding team’s readiness to launch a business ■ Calibrate the timing of a startup effort (accelerate or delay) ■ …
The deepest form of entrepreneurial commitment acknowledges and accepts that there are forces in the marketplace that are beyond the founder’s control, forces that will impact the venture’s destiny for …