Comments on: 20 Things You Shouldn’t Do When Starting A Business

By: Natalie Ferguson

Natalie Ferguson — Thu, 03 May 2007 21:04:55 +0000

It is all about action and not planning – but if you can make planning part of the action, you win on all sides. We’ve just launched PlanHQ which is designed to help small businesses and startups focus on what’s most important without spending huge amounts of time ‘planning’. Because planning is important so you don’t spend all your time actioning the wrong things, but it shouldn’t get out of control!

By: laurence haughton

laurence haughton — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:57:01 +0000

Years ago it was written that newspapers “make the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy, crazier.” Dane’s list of “don’ts” belongs in just such a newspaper.

By: Wally Bock

Wally Bock — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:10:12 +0000

Far too many people who want to start a business spend their time starting to prepare to begin to get ready to develop a plan for identifying the perfect time to make money. Others dive in. In my consulting/coaching experience, the divers are more likely to succeed, but not necessarily the first or second time. As one, now very successful, client put it: “Get your mitakess out of the way quick!”

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:39:15 +0000

I agree with that thought. It may be the other way around, but the point of planning but not doing is a mistake. Others might say, how can you do it with out a plan? I think this is where experience comes in.