Originally posted on 2 Jan 2014
The world’s most valuable company, Apple, started out in the back of Steve Jobs’ parent’s garage. Likewise Hewlett Packard also started out in a garage.
There are several other examples:
I’m not suggesting that to succeed, a small business needs to start in the back of a garage or in stables behind the local hotel. Any small business could succeed with the right product, the right customers, the right focus and with the owner spending enough time paying attention to what his/her customers actually need: something that can only be done by spending enough time working ON the business rather than 100% of the time working IN it.
It’s not just taking on board the latest ideas but being brave enough to be different. Maybe Vivian Greene was right when she wrote: Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It is about learning to dance in the rain. All of the entrepreneurs listed above faced adversity. It wasn’t easy for any of them. But armed with belief and focus, they all succeeded.
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