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Carl Kruse | Top 5 Tips for Budding Entrepreneurs in 2018

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Carl Kruse
Carl Kruse | Top 5 Tips for Budding Entrepreneurs in 2018

Carl Kruse : Understanding the market for which your new product/service is entering is crucial to success. Don’t underestimate the importance of doing your research, observing and learning before taking a huge leap and setting up. Assess the market – who are your key competitors? What’s their pricing strategy? What do they do that’s different to you? It’s easy to be trusting in the early days of business as you’re eager to get going but working with a potentially unstable partner or supplier could leave you in serious trouble later down the line.

Before entering a partnership, or purchasing stock from a supplier, do your due diligence and check out their financial history. It’s easy to be trusting in the early days of business as you’re eager to get going but working with a potentially unstable partner or supplier could leave you in serious trouble later down the line. Company credit reports can give you access to significant amounts of data that will put you in an informed position when making decisions about who to work with, and help you avoid falling foul of late payments or accumulating bad debt. 

It may sound obvious, but the second most common cause of start-up failure is running out of cash. It’s imperative that business owners keep a tight rein on the financials, particularly in the first 12 months. While it may be a shock to the system to lose the stability of a salary, new business owners must be strict at reinvesting those first earned pounds back into the business – the entrepreneurs who succeed will be those willing to make a personal sacrifice. 

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