20 CLEARING THE HURDLES: WOMEN BUILDING HIGH-GROWTH BUSINESSES
decade of marketing and sales experience in the fast-food industry, but
you want to start a construction business, then all your industry-spe-
cific experience will be irrelevant to this new venture. If you have spent
years in audit accounting working with books and numbers, then
choose to launch a temporary personnel business, you might lack the
requisite skills in human resource management for such a venture.
There are several ways to assure that you have the full complement of
skills: Gain experience in your industry of choice and consider starting
a new venture with one or more partners whose experience comple-
ments yours. If growth is your goal, the composite of human capital
possessed ...