November 2021
Beginner to intermediate
226 pages
4h 56m
English
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Operating Your Business Means Controlling Your “Baby”
The Premise
Operating a business is crucially important but generally boring.
Conventional Thinking
Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that creating and operating a business is curiously analogous to a romantic relationship.
Creating and Operating a Business |
Equating to a Romantic Relationship |
The “aha” moment when an idea flashes in your imagination |
The tingly-touchy-feely courtship |
Designing and planning out the venture |
The engagement, complete with all the hopes and dreams you have for the future |
Seeking out funding/investors |
Shopping for the engagement ring you cannot afford and planting a few seeds of doubt |
Launching your business ... |