No one likes to make mistakes, especially in business, but if you don’t make mistakes you can’t grow. As an entrepreneur who has chucked the corporate life, the commute and the comfort of knowing I’d have a paycheck at the end of the week, I’ve made plenty of mistakes.

During my start-up days, I made some financial mistakes along with a few stupid, bonehead moves that I’ve ingrained in my brain never to do again. I’m not finished making mistakes because I’m not finished growing my business. The difference between my start-up days and today is that now my mistakes are much smaller and less expensive to fix.

In her article “10 Mistakes That Start-Up Entrepreneurs Make,” Rosalind Resnick shares a strong list of things you should avoid doing when you’re starting a company. A few of my favorite suggestions are: [Read more...]