Top Ten Do's and Don'ts Print this Top Ten List

[btlfabricant]

Top Ten Do's and Don'ts Print this Top Ten List

TOP TEN DO'S

Live frugally and begin saving up money for starting your business. Learn your intended business by working for someone else in the same business first. Consider the benefits of starting a moonlight business. Consider the advantages of operating a family business. Objectively measure your skills and training against potential competition. Consider subcontracting to low cost suppliers if you're manufacturing a product. Test market your product or service before starting or expanding. Make "for" and "against" list describing the specific business you are considering. Talk to lots of people in your intended business for advice. Make a comparative analysis of all opportunities you are considering. TOP TEN DON'TS Don't even think about leaving your job until you have completed start-up plans. Don't consider starting a business in a field you do not enjoy. Don't risk all the family assets. Limit your liabilities to a predetermined amount. Don't compete with your employer in a moonlight business. Don't be in a hurry to select a business. There is no penalty for missed opportunities. Don't select a business that is too high a risk or hurdle. Go for the

2-foot hurdle. Avoid a business in which you must have the lowest price to succeed. Don't be afraid to seek out and learn the negative aspects of an intended business. Don't let entrepreneurial self-confidence outweigh careful diligence. Don't let the promise of a conceptual high reward deter reality testing first.

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

If you have to print all the shit you've just posted, you must be a bit short of a byte.

Spammer

[Russ]

DON'T post the same cr@p on every forum going.

[Bob Eager]

What's a 'forum'? This is Usenet...and newsgroups... :-)

[Russ]

pah...you know what I mean! ;o)

[meow2222]

Totally ot and unasked for. OTOH it speaks to a topic much underlearnt today, and upon which a great deal of success in life depends. Or the lack of it.

why??

not always the thing to do, it depends. Can be time wasted and/or opportunity missed.

generally advised against

no, compare each option.

If people followed that, most of us would be out of work.

depends on circumstances, if your ass is on fire it may be the best option.

of course there is

why should someone that can jump 4' go for the 2' hurdle?

There are some that succeed, by producing goods at lower cost than ever before.

If this is your list of points to 'print out', you may want to avoid self employment. One of the key questions is whether self employment is really a good idea at all. The very high business failure rate shows that for most it isnt.

NT

[Rob Morley]

Surely 'forum' is a generic term that is a reasonable description of a newsgroup?

[gort]

No, forums are generally web based and we have had enough trouble with those in here over the years.

Dave

[Adrian C]

That site is obviously a plant to gain the owners Google income from the AdSense advertising. The text has been stolen from and the whole deceit is against the following google AdSense program policy.

# No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant.

If you click the 'Ads by Goooooogle' link just below the advertising, and enter a complaint (no email address necessary to do so), hopefully the spammer will lose their collected google revenue!

Do it today, I have ... ;-)

[Bob Eager]

Technically, it might be. But it generally tends to indicate a lack of understanding by the poster, concerning the nature of the audience to which they are posting.

[John Cartmell]

I'm afraid your education has let you down. Forum *is* a generic term of long standing - 2,500 years? - and you have to accept its general use alongside its more specific version, else display your ignorance.

[John Cartmell]

Except that it didn't in this case. ;-)

[Dave Fawthrop]

|In article |Bob Eager wrote: |> On Wed, 10 May 2006 06:55:16 UTC, "Russ" |> wrote: |> |> > DON'T post the same cr@p on every forum going. |> |> What's a 'forum'? This is Usenet...and newsgroups... :-) |> |> |Surely 'forum' is a generic term that is a reasonable description of a |newsgroup?

On the WWW a "forum" is a web based system where you can read discussions on a specific web page(s) system. Usenet is completely different, the discussion is distributed by newservers directly to your own machine.

Groups.google is trying to pretend that it *is* usenet by offering a web based interface to usenet. Read

carefully.

[meow2222]

Uh, maybe I was being a bit slow! Hadnt even noticed the spam links.

NT

[Bob Eager]

That's why I was careful to include the word 'generally'....!

[Rob Morley]

I know that. This isn't the web.

Well done Sherlock.

[Mike Halmarack]

Don't you come around here trying to be reasonable.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] saying something like:

1 to 10.

Assume that something you've picked up from the internet is bollocks.