The Runway

This is the flip side of the entrepreneurial spirit, pure pragmatism -- -- how to bound and frame your entrepreneurial risk and how to get started. To succeed as an entrepreneur and create your own future it takes dual abilities -- -- an imaginative creative vision, and sharp pragmatic focus, to translate the vision into achievable concrete steps.

This essay is about focus -- -- the focus required for the very first stage, funding the startup and laying a foundation to launch one's dream -- -- the runway.

Build your runway to launch your business ---- your own private take off pad to the stars. Fasten your seat-belt and tap below: 

The Runway

Launch issues for entrepreneurs

Here are several of the vision and gut check issues that both enable and dissuade entrepreneurs at launch time. They are highly personal and individual yet common for those about to launch a new business. Most entrepreneurs think they're alone struggling with these issues; not true, even highly successful established entrepreneurs early on had the same demons and dreams. 

Read on to see the 'go/no go' questions to answer before you launch.

 Launch Issues

sleepy Dreams to compelling Destiny

A sonnet that captures the spirit of a new startup. The dream grows from a curiosity to a haunting destiny. The daydream gains grown and cunningly transforms to obsession, and off we go. Our path is less a business endeavor, more a spiritual passage.We grow in parallel with the business's growth,  however reluctantly. Daniel Smith's photo suggests the dream is in charge -- be careful playing with fire -- the dream becomes transcendent and we have no choice but to saddle up and go for the ride.

Sound familiar? Click below to see what's really going on here.

from Dreams to Destiny

Blind Spots

Read this before starting a business. Every entrepreneur has blind spots -- -- some you can navigate around, some will kill your business.

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Blind Spots 

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