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Entrepreneurship for the Rest of Us
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Entrepreneurship for the Rest of Us

by Paul B. Brown
November 2016
Beginner content levelBeginner
192 pages
3h 21m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 7Building the Team

Getting a money-making idea is one thing. Making money from it is quite another. As we have seen, the hard part of starting a company is not coming up with a blockbuster idea—your concept doesn't have to be terrific. Implementing the idea is where both entrepreneurs and companies looking to be more entrepreneurial often stumble on the road to success.

That puzzled me for a long time. Why do many entrepreneurs have problems dealing with growth? About half of the companies that pass the financial screens to qualify as one of Forbes's best small companies in America one year will fail to repeat the next. Why?

It turns out that dealing with growth hurdles almost always requires the entrepreneur to think in ways that are ...

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ISBN: 9781351861892