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To Overcome Concerns about Ability
to Manage Risk
Develop a Process for Risk Management
Information, skills, and abilities increase risk tolerance. People
with higher levels of formal education as well as industry, managerial,
and previous start-up experience are more likely to invest personal
resources in their business and seem to take greater risks with their
financing strategy overall.
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Essentially, these nonfinancial resources
mediate the risk relationship. Investments entrepreneurs make in infor-
mation gathering, knowledge, and skills, will likely translate into their
willingness to take more risk. The enhanced information gives the
entrepreneur a greater ability to make good choices. Understand ...