Bearish: A subjective view that there will be a down trend from a weak market also called a bear market

Bullish: A subjective view that there will be a rise in trend from a strong market also called a bull market.

Capital Gain: Profit made on the sale of an asset that exceeds the initial investment or capital. Taxes may be payable on capital gain.

Capital Loss: Loss made on the sale of an asset that the initial investment or capital exceeded the sale price. A Tax rebate may apply.

Capital: Money invested into a business usually a start-up business, high risk and high reward, success is uncertain.

CFD: Contract For Difference is contracts between two parties the buyer and the seller that states the seller will pay the buyer the difference between the current value of the asset and the value at the time of the contract. Remember if negative the buyer pays the seller the difference.

Commodities: A raw material or product, something valuable or useful that can be bought and sold.

Dividends: A dividend is an amount of money which is paid to the share holders from the company’s after-tax earnings. This payment may be offered as cash or on a DRP (dividend reinvestment plan).

DRP: A dividend reinvestment plan is how some company’s offer to pay its share holders dividends. The company allows you to automatically reinvest your dividends each quarter into additional shares without incurring brokerage fees, sometimes at a reduced price.

Ex-dividend: To be entitled to the dividend you must purchase the stock before it goes ex-dividend, if bought after this date you will not be entitled to the dividend for that quarter.

Long selling: Most commonly used, purchasing a stock to make a profit in a rising market.

Option: A contract between the buyer and the seller which allows the buyer to purchase a particular asset at a later date and an agreed price on or before the expiration date without any obligation.

Public Company: A company that has listed shares on a stock exchange for the public to invest in the company. These shares can be bought and sold freely by the public.

Shares: Part ownership position in a company normally comes with voting privileges about the company’s direction, directors, and share a profit or loss at the end of each quarter.

Short Selling: Going short is an investor selling a stock that they do not own and buying it back later, this strategy is used so an investor can profit in a declining market.

Stop Loss: An order to sell a stock automatically when the price falls to a certain point. This limits the investor’s from further losses.

Trailing Stop: An order to sell a stock automatically unlike a stop loss it follows the price upwards until a down trend takes over the trailing stop is triggered and the stock is sold.

Volume: A share’s volume is the amount of contracts or shares traded in a given period of time, usually measured daily and compared against the daily average volume.

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Market / Stock Market / Stock Exchange – An exchange where professional brokers buy and sell stocks.
Trading Hours – The time during which stocks can be traded. In the Australia, trading runs from 10:00am AEST to 4:00pm AEST.
Market Maker / MM – A firm that conducts the trading of shares between other firms or individuals.
Ticker Symbol – A unique letter-based symbol used to represent the company’s stock.
Share – A unit of ownership of a company’s stock.
Authorized Shares – The total number of shares that a company has.
Outstanding Shares – Shares that are available to buy or sell in the market.
Restricted Shares – Shares that cannot be traded for a certain period of time.
Float – Shares that are available for trade by the investing public.
Buy – To purchase shares of a company’s stock.
Sell – To sell shares of a company’s stock.
Commission – A fee paid to your broker for facilitating a purchase or sale of stock.
Bid – The price at which a broker will buy shares (i.e. a sale of shares would be executed at the Bid price).
Ask – The price at which a broker will sell shares (i.e. a purchase of shares would be executed at the Ask price).
Spread – The difference between the Bid and the Ask prices.
Day Order – An order to buy or sell stock that will be canceled if it does not get filled by the end of the trading day.
Good Til Canceled / GTC – An order to buy or sell stock that will remain open for 30 to 60 days (varies by broker).
Limit Order – An order to buy or sell stock that will not go through until the price gets to a specified level, or better.
Trend – The general direction that a stock is moving…upward or downward.
Bearish – Describes a stock that is expected to trend downward.
Bullish – Describes a stock that is expected to trend upward.

These few terms will give you a good start. It is easier to talk about the stock market if you understand these basic stock terms. Learning them will help in your discussions, your research, and in understanding the helpful tools out there.

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These are 3 very important things to take into account when buying a small business.

• The initial capital (to buy the business),
• The working capital (for running the business),
• Your personal budget (to calculate how much you need to live).

Then you need to arrange finance, find the business to buy, check the businesses assets and liabilities and then ask some smart questions.

The initial capital is what you need to buy the business. The valuation of the business will be based on the net assets plus any goodwill (the business reputation and customer base). A net asset is the value of all the assets such as cars, stock, debtors less the liabilities such as car leases, and property leases. The budget needs to allow for stamp duty.

Work capital is basically the income and expenses of the business, typically this will be income from customers (turnover / sales / revenue) and expenses such as rent, insurance, phones, electricity, wages, stock purchases etc. Be careful to under estimate sales and over estimate expenses, this way you will have a “buffer” for unexpected costs.

Your personal budget is how much you need to live, once you know this you can now calculate how much you need to be paid in wages. For example if you need to take home $2500 per month you will be need to pay yourself $3,333 (and pay tax of $833). Also at the end of the quarter you will need to pay an additional $900 towards your superannuation fund. This means your budget for your pay will be $3633 per month.

Now you have set your budgets you can start researching how to buy and finance the business. Are you going to use a business broker or buy direct? Are you going to borrow money, find an investor or use your savings? Depending on your personal circumstances you will probably need to arrange finance. It is best to get an agreement in principle from your lender before you go looking at businesses. The lender will let you know how much you can borrow which will in turn help you to select the right business for you.

What do you need to look for in the accounts? Always insist on seeing the Financials submitted by the current owners tax accountant to the ATO and do not listen to any stories about “the real accounts” where the owner shows you another set of figures (they will always show a much higher profit).

Analyse the accounts and look at the net assets figure, check the tangible assets in the balance sheet (assets you can touch), and then ensure the assets reflect their true current market value. Next look at the liabilities and ensure they also reflect the current situation, be especially careful of leases to check when they are due to be renewed. You don’t want to buy a business and then find the shop lease runs out in 3 months and the building is going to be redeveloped!

The smart questions to ask are basically finding out the truth about the business without relying solely on the current owners accounts. For example if you are buying a coffee shop take a look at the number of coffee cups in the shop. Suppose he has 40 coffee cups that means he can have 40 customers at once right? No it means he can have about 25 customers at one time, and the remaining cups are being washed or are ready to be used right now. So if the owner tells you that he has 30 customers most days at peak time you can work out the real figures for yourself.

Before you commit any money to the venture appoint a solicitor and an accountant to ensure the purchase is managed professionally.

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Motivation is a natural consequence of being successful, happy and focussed in your work (for most people anyway; you will never achieve 100% in any endeavour involving people and motivation – but you will come close!). Below are some thoughts to provide a motive to your team, and encourage their self motivation:

 Ensure that employees have the resources they need to be successful. Do staff members have the tools they need to succeed? Is company equipment up-to-date? Does it support efficiency and success?

 Provide employees with the necessary training. What skills do employees need, but currently lack? Is there a commitment to ongoing skills development at your company? Are employees encouraged to attend seminars or conferences to stay abreast of industry changes and trends?

 Put everybody on the same page … develop standards for how the work gets accomplished. Do employees know what is expected of them or does the company rely on common sense? Are standards documented, understood and agreed to by both employer and employee?

 Provide an environment that supports success. Is the workplace neat and orderly? Is their a sense of productivity or does chaos prevail? Are people provided the uninterrupted time they need to achieve success or do unnecessary disruptions limit their efficiency…and effectiveness?

 Develop your employees. Ask employees what their career goals are and help them achieve them. Why would someone want to excel at a job that is not rewarding and fulfilling?

 Promote success by providing consistent, open and honest feedback. Never miss an opportunity to acknowledge an employee. Employees need recognition and praise. Give ample feedback and public recognition whenever possible. When employees need to alter habits or change course, communicate with them as soon as possible; don’t wait for annual reviews.

 Be a model of success yourself. People will respond according to the actions – not the words – of their leaders. Effective leadership is difficult if a manager has one set of standard for themselves and another for everybody else

 Innovate! Foster an environment of creativity in the workplace. Elevate the self-esteem of your staff by asking them their opinions and ideas. Solicit, encourage, and implement new ideas and ways of producing results. Employees with high self-esteem tend to experience greater success in their jobs

This was wrtten by Kevin Cahalane Sales and Customer Service Training Professional. See what Kevin can do for you at www.sasemo.com

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You can create a marketing strategy that does not rely on strong sales skills. Imagine someone just comes into your business and when you ask: “How can I help you?”, they say: “I want to buy that and here is my money.”Does that sound too good to be true? Well it happens all the time. Look what happens when you go into McDonalds. The person just says: “May I take your order please?” They don’t spend time explaining why their burgers are superior to everyone else’s or that their prices are the best. They don’t have to, because this is all done by the marketing that the buyer is exposed to prior to entering the store- and when they enter, they will buy.

McDonald’s has chosen this approach because they are using low skill labour and they don’t want to go to the expense of teaching their low wage, part-time and casual staff how to sell.

If you create a marketing strategy that sells your buyers before they contact you, you don’t have to be a super-salesperson to make a sale from an enquiry. The marketing does all the hard work for you and all you have to do is to take the order.

To do this, however, you must have a marketing system. A good marketing system will attract enquiries so you don’t have to cold call, and pre-qualifies buyers so that the tyre-kickers and time wasters are filtered out.

Then a sales pipeline is used through which you move your buyer, step-by-step. Each step is a test where the buyer must make a new commitment to you before they move to the next. At the penultimate step they have decided that they want your product and it is value for money. Then all you have to do is ask them: “May I take your order please.”

This requires a lot more planning than you will see from salespeople in a used car lot, where arm wrestling seems to be the most important skill. We are no longer talking about hunting the buyer – instead we nurture them.

There are few really natural sales people that you can hire. (The very best start their own business.) Yes, your employees should have sales training, but boost it with a well defined sales pipeline so even people who hate selling can sell for you. This also removes the dependence on a star salesperson who could leave your business at any time (and probably will).

So even if you have staff that could sell ice to Eskimos, don’t you think their skills would produce more sales if you also used a sales pipeline, and sold Eskimos something they really want, like central heating, and then you can sell them an icemaker for their drinks so they don’t have to go outside.

This post was writting by Dr Greg Chapman is the internationally recognised author of the top selling book “The Five Pillars of Guaranteed Business Success”. Visit www.FivePillarsBusinessSuccess.com to download a free copy of his Mission Statements Made Easy Tool.

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Is there a way to manage money and eliminate debt step by step? Perhaps if there were a sure fire way we would all be doing it every day, week and month of the year. However, I have discovered several steps that will be of assistance and if you try and follow each as closely as possible you will be even closer to eliminating your personal debt. You can begin right now and it could change your life.

Step Number 1: Assess your current financial situation.

Are you currently in the red or black? Do you turn to the credit card to manage your money and every day purchases? This may be a definite indication that you may be in some financial trouble. Here is a free aid at the below link that may help quantify your current financial status.

The Second Step: Analyze your spending habits.

Review your weekly and monthly purchases. Do you think that many of your purchases are unnecessary? When it comes to spending, there really is no ‘grey’ area. There are things we all need to buy and there are things that we don’t. You may need to re-learn how to manage money if you find that the majority of the money you spend is on eating out, entertainment, expensive clothes, alcohol etc. Here’s something you may want to try.

The Third Step: Budget.

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this once or twice on my blog but creating a budget is probably the most important step to take. A simple way to start to budget is to sift through your credit card bill and make list that separates what you NEEDED and the things you DID NOT NEED. This should only take a a bit of time but it will show you how to manage money in a very easy way. If you want, try to go back through those bills a couple of months. The 1st thing you might probably see is that you can cut your bills by 50%! From here on in, when you are buying things down the road you now know exactly what deserves the ‘green’ light for the MUST HAVE spending and what gets ‘red’ flagged. Suddenly you have the start of a budget.

Step Number 4: Eliminate those ‘Red Flagged’ purchases.

Step 4 will take the most determination, dedication and will power on your part. The key of how to manage money is to know where your cash is going and why. You really do not need the finest fashions, or that costly bottle of wine, football tickets or that new pair of shoes if you are already having difficulty with your finances. What you really need are comfortable home and food on the table. Try to live a very modest lifestyle for a month and you will surely be shocked with how much cash you will save.

Step Number 5:  Find a low or no cost credit card.

Look at different companies but this is a very important step to take. The best way to decide where to go is if you carry a balance or if you regularly pay it off each month. If you carry a an amount that carries over  you need to find a credit card that has a low interest rate. It is extremely difficult to chip away at a balance if they charge you 18% interest or more. That money will add up fast. If you are lucky enough to be able to make the payments, use a credit card with low or no fees. The best solution is to get rid of your credit card altogether and only use it for emergencies.

Step Number 6: Consolidate your debts.

Plan this step carefully. The positive side is that debt consolidation offers the opportunity to lower your monthly payments, save on interest and may even help you eliminate debt faster. But there are downsides that must be considered like not finding out the root of your debt problem and preventing those tendencies that started the debt to begin with. You could end up paying more in the long run with debt consolidation if you aren’t careful.

Step Number 7: Seek financial advice.

This is straight to the point. You aren’t going to be able to know everything you need to when it comes to debt and the ways to eliminate it. These steps will be helpful but it is still wise to seek face to face advice from a professional.

The Eighth Step: Fix your credit.

Having bad credit is, well, bad. There are plenty of major purchases you will still make in the future and you must have a quality credit score to do so. Be sure to check your credit at your bank or even find out on the internet with a company like Equifax. The more quickly you repair your credit the better.

Can you manage money and eliminate debt step by step? I truly think that if you follow these 8 steps you will have the right tools to eliminate your debt. Good luck and let me know about the success stories that you have had!

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Here are five effective wealth secrets that won’t cost you a dime to start doing. But they can dramatically improve your life!

1. Visualize what you want–every day. Visualizing your desired outcome is the base of achievement systems from Think and Grow Rich to the Law of Attraction (and actually runs as far back as human history).
You can find several different methods for this from several different self-help systems. The most important thing to remember is that you should focus on your desired end, with emotion, every single day.
Most people find that the beginning of the day is the best time to do this. Others prefer to do it at night, before bed. I recommend both.
That way, you subconscious can work on new ideas and solutions when you are asleep, and your consciousness will be focused on your goal on some level throughout the day.

2. Never stop learning. You don’t know it all now, and you never will. But that doesn’t mean you should quit learning with the end of college or high school. In fact it suggests that you should continually educate yourself.
This is especially true if you’re just starting out on the path to greater wealth. You’ve probably heard the phrase, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.” Cliché that it may be by now, it’s also true.

3. If you want to win, you have to lose a lot. Thomas Edison knew this. He tried roughly 1,000 different light bulb designs before getting one that worked like he wanted. (Light bulbs were already around; he was trying to design one that could be put to common use.)
When asked how he kept his chin up through a thousand failures, he answered, “I have not failed 1,000 times. I discovered 1,000 ways not to build a light bulb. Then I was able to deduce a way that would work.”
Adopt the same attitude if you want to succeed. After all, not everything is going to work out like you want it to. But you can learn something important from each mistake. And you probably won’t have to fail 1,000 times before you succeed!

4. When in doubt–go for it. Here is another bit from Edison; it’s a quote that pretty much says it all:
“Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!”

5. Pretend you have already accomplished your goals. I have found that the best way to do this is to write down what it’s like to already be at the point in life that you want to be at. Write down how much you enjoy your new life, how you feel about it, how it has changed the various aspects of your life.

Just as importantly, write down how proud you are of yourself for the effort and skills you used to reach your goal.

You don’t have to make up events that never happened, if you don’t want. Simply write down how your persistence, consistent effort, and skills (it’s good to be specific here) carried you through to win the day. Thinking and feeling from the perspective of what you want to attain, is one of the most effective wealth secrets of all.

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1. Domain Name Register a name for your website. Choose a name that is short and easy to remember. When you tell other people what your domain name is, they should easily remember it, know how to spell it and know the type of business you’re in.

2. Web hosting You don’t need to go for expensive web hosting at the start of your business unless you have lots of traffic. Avoid free web hosting with ads on them. It will kill your company’s image.

3. Face of the business Decide on a spokesman for your website. Will it be the CEO, Director or Marketing Director? This person’s photo should be on the website with contact details. It will give your company and the website personality.

4. About Us, Contact Us & Services The common pages of a website are About Us, Contact Us and Services. Spend a lot of time planning the content for these pages. Make sure you give as many options as possible for people to contact you. e.g. Telephone, Fax, Email, Mail Address, Skype

5. Taking orders Decide how you would like to take orders online. It could be via telephone, Paypal, credit card payment or money transfer. Have your order button displayed in an eye-catching area. Your visitors need to know exactly how to buy your products or services.

6. Good web design With the structure planned out, hire a professional designer to create your website. You need to give a corporate image that is eye-catching and exciting. Your website gives your visitors their first impression of you, which determines the number of customers you’ll have.

7. Create a free report Give out valuable information in the form of a pdf file. This report will contain useful information your prospects can use, with links to your website and products. The objective of the report is to show your expertise in the market and make your prospects remember you.

8. Squeeze page This is a web page which describes the benefits of the free report. It informs visitors that they can download the report free of charge and sign up to your company’s newsletter, if they enter their name and email address. This is how you collect targeted email leads and add them to your autoresponder account. You can regularly email good information to your list of subscribers and occasionally remind them to purchase your products and any new promotions you have.

9. Write articles To launch your business website, one of the most effective ways is to write related articles in your niche and distribute them to directories linking back to your website. This will help your website rank higher in the search engines and drive targeted visitors to your website.

10. Press Release To announce your website to the public, write a press release that has a news-worthy story related to your business. With this press release, submit it to as many media channels as you can. This will send visitors to your website and may even get you interviews with journalists. Online press release submissions will also help your website rank higher in the search engines. The above is a brief summary of the steps you need to go through, to create and launch your business online. Each step requires planning and careful implementation. You may consider outsourcing this to companies who specialize in creating and launching online businesses if you don’t have a team of your own.

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2. Is There Money On The Internet?

The simple answer is yes. The more comprehensive answer is that you can make money online by having a well-defined business case that covers all bases. It is too easy to see the big user generated sites such as MySpace and Facebook with their millions of visitors and members as being money-making models. That’s a bit like parading Lotto winners and saying see there’s a winner. The odds are against anyone becoming the next FaceBook or Amazon but many entrepreneurs do find successful niches which generate income and create a sustainable business.
One of the most popular methods for making online over the past 5 or 6 years has been to set up an EBay business online. This does not mean competing with EBay, it means setting up your own niche ‘shop’ within EBay. Millions of people around the world are doing this. The niche needs to be attractive enough to create a demand for product as you would be buying product from others sources and reselling on EBay. A number of people have for example built EBay business around buying surplus stock in categories from Chinese manufacturers and reselling on EBay under some banner for example “Nothing over $2!”
You need a website that can interface with this and you need to find a profitable niche.

Finding Profitable Niches

Many people struggle with niche ideas and research. Finding a great niche market is
like hitting the jackpot, but it is NOT as simple as looking thru a keyword tool. There is a whole thought process that goes with it if you are serious about really working a niche and learning the ‘conversations’ that are going on.
You can experiment with your ideas by using the Google Analytics tool to discover who is appearing on Google with a particular product and service. By looking at the volume of searches you will be guided by the popularity. Of course the bigger the volume the harder it will be to establish a foothold. But the clues can be there.
For example, if you are a golfing enthusiast, you will observe the crowded market for golf accessories and deals for club membership. But there may be a niche for example in offering some narrow category such as “second hand ‘Shark’ golf clubs”.
Regardless of whether you start with the product or start with keywords, make sure they really relate to each other. These words and phrases that you are finding are part of a conversation a reader/Google searcher is having with him/herself as he/she goes from the info gathering stage to the buying stage.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. Affiliate marketing—using one website to drive traffic to another—is a form of online marketing, which is frequently overlooked by advertisers.
In business it pays to look for “best-of-breed” – who is doing it well? What can I learn from them? Look at the top affiliates– the ones who are actually making money. What’s the difference between them? You’ll notice that they all work ultra hard, are ultra networked, and are ultra knowledgeable. The catch-22 is that if you’re a one man show, how can you possibly put in enough time to work, meet people, and learn at the same time?
There’s a tendency amongst newbie’s to go hard at it. That’s fine. The entrepreneurial– fire, ready, aim, can be damaging. They can be so “ready’ that they move in any direction with no goal– just lots of open projects– zero of them completed.
Think about affiliate marketing as a form of sales: essentially you become the sales person for a company or product. When you produce the results someone is looking for, for example acquiring email addresses or making a sale, you will be paid accordingly. It’s so well ingrained in today’s online ecommerce world that nearly every major brand and company has an affiliate marketing program that you can join.

Digital Products

There are many so-called digital product categories. Software is the obvious one. But, apart from affiliate categories, the area of internet marketing which is most readily accessible to new entrants or to excising businesses seeking to migrate online is Info Products.
These are information products such as E-books, online courseware (such as “How to” Tutorials). This is suited for subject mater experts such as education services providers. Or a translator, for example could offer online translation services or products (tapes) that are web-based.
The info product area remains at its early stage of adoption with a the first wave of adopters from physical already taking place. For example books to online books via the KINDLE platform. Education services are underdoing some massive migration with even the great universities now offering online delivery of all degree courses.
Even if you are not an “expert” in some category but you have some internet marketing nous or delivery capabilities, info products are a highly accessible digital pricy category. You can always hire subject matter experts online over Guru.com or Elance.com
Remember if you already established in a physical product category, you need to provide fulfilment of your product: warehousing, shipping and warranty are serious hurdles.

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Planning and a business plan are two sides to the same coin. Let’s be clear – a business plan is not an academic exercise : it is an articulated statement of the case for your business idea setting how to go from ”zero to hero”. While many entrepreneurs view a business span as a document that is used to raise capital from an investor or a bank, many other start-up entrepreneurs, particularly the younger ones, use a business plan as kind of milestone diary. In effect to keep them on track.
It is also an excellent device for attracting business “partners”; not necessarily those who invest money in your business idea but who may join you in some fashion, for example, a potential distributor for your products or a software developer for your proprietary software.
If you are dealing in technology then a business plan can be used to get an introduction from someone who has got credentials in the technology area; either a successful entrepreneur or a credentialed academic.
The document not only gives these type of people or organisations a sense of what you are on about but also gives you the opportunity to demonstrate past successes. Even if you have not been an entrepreneur before, use your career history to demonstrate successful projects and achievements ensuring that they are relevant to the industry.

The Planning Process

Before actually working out the ‘nuts and bolts’ of how you are to develop your start-up, an entrepreneur will document their:

• Skills
• Experience
• Qualifications

The idea here is to allow you to line up your strengths and identify any weaknesses which you may need to make allowance for by sourcing externally, for example ‘partners’, advisors or mentors.
Then an entrepreneur would set out the business case setting out in detail how the business will operate. Identifying all the costs involved in starting up the business. They will research the market and establish price points for their products and/or service, and make detailed estimations of their break even points.
We will look at this in another article but for now be prepared to look at best case and worst case scenarios as far as revenues and costs.
The major killer of start ups is running out of money. The idea for the business may be sound but the costs have been under-estimated and or the revenues have been over-estimated and no account has been given to the delay in receiving money from revenue. The critical factor for any start-up becomes cash flow.
Interestingly, many experienced entrepreneurs who have been through at least one start up, suggest that it is better to get product to the market sooner rather than later; that perfection should not be the driver, but that customer feedback and revenue be the targets.

A Planning Document
It is also useful in the planning stage of a business to put a document together that you can show a mentor or a trusted friend who can pick holes in some of the assumptions.
You will soon learn that you need to extremely cautious about multi-billion dollar projections. Examine various scenarios based on “best case” “worst case” and draw financial projections around these.

What Are The Pros And Cons Of Starting A Business At A Young Age?

Conventional wisdom would suggest that someone just out of school is too young to start a business. The arguments would have it that the person does not have the experience , does not have the skills and does not have the resources necessary to support them thought the trials and tribulations of a start up venture. All these are true but there are also plenty of entrepreneurs who have started at a young age to flex their entrepreneurial muscles.
Indeed if you speak to some of the great entrepreneurial stories such as Donald trump, Richard Branson and Bill Gates it is evident that they were entrepreneurs before they left school. Most were still at home and studying but they were already exploring that “itch” that many entrepreneurs have. Young people while not necessarily having resources are also young enough to recover form setbacks. A 20-year old who starts a business with credit card cash advances and loses the lot will recover. And indeed may have learned much from the experience.
The arguments for waiting until one has had years of experience are compelling. Experience is what matters most in business. The knowledge of an industry, the skills acquired from training and working in a particular field are often the core inputs for an entrepreneur. They may be skills gained from a trade – for example a plumber who after five years of working for a firm may see an opportunity to become a green plumber and sets up while still employed but with the skills under his belt to know how to start a green plumbing business.
An older person may have accumulated some savings and may even have bought in a partner, who can act as sources of capital for a start-up. An older person will have tallied up strong industry experience and networks which are often extremely important in a start up venture.

When Do I Move From Planning My Business To Business On A Full Time Basis?

In entrepreneurship we use the term “bootstrapping “ to describe the reality of a start up venture. It means using whatever resources are available to get the business off the ground before it is paying its own way. The longer you can stay employed and receive a regular paycheque the better. Many entrepreneurs literally work evenings and weekends to get their start-up going. There is no magic formula here: in the ideal world your business will produce revenue – perhaps by securing an anchor customer who is prepared to back you with an order and which might present you with an opportunity to fund the business from proceeds.

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