The Worst Advice I’ve Heard as a New Entrepreneur [Fast Company]

It was only after spending the past couple of decades of my career working at big companies that I decided to become an entrepreneur. Other entrepreneurs can surely relate to the surplus of people offering their unsolicited counsel. Usually it’s easy to tell which input to dismiss, but sometimes even bad advice can leave you second-guessing yourself. Here’s the worst of what I’ve heard and how I’ve pushed it aside.

1. Don’t go after a “Niche Market”
2. Better think twice–There’s no going back
3. You might fail, so why bother?
4. Accept the highest offer
5. Work with who you know
6. Hurry

More Posts from Across the Internet

This Is How You Train Your Brain To Get What You Really Want [Medium] – Eventually, you can train your conscious mind to only focus on what you really want in life. Everything else gets outsourced and forgotten by your subconscious. Decide what you want or someone else will. You are the designer of your destiny. What will it be?

The Essentials Of Hiring An Exceptional Startup Team [Tech Crunch] – For early stage companies to be successful, founders need to develop a thoughtful recruiting process, and need to do it early on.

Marketers, stop celebrating hollow growth. [The Guardian] – Businesses hail rising sales across online channels, but is this growth incremental or does it cannibalise existing revenue?