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10 Key Risk Factors to Minimize for Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

I don’t agree, for example, that the first priority is to avoid startups with a high attrition rate, like trendy restaurants and entertainment. Even in an open space, you need intellectual property, like patents, to keep potential competitors from overrunning you. Financial risk. Very few businesses can be started without money.

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Ten High Risk Drivers Every Entrepreneur Faces

Startup Professionals Musings

I don’t agree, for example, that the first priority is to avoid startups with a high attrition rate, like trendy restaurants and entertainment. Even in an open space, you need intellectual property, like patents, to keep potential competitors from overrunning you. Financial risk. Very few businesses can be started without money.

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Ten Key Elements Make a Startup a Risky Business

Startup Professionals Musings

I don’t agree, for example, that the first priority is to avoid startups with a high attrition rate, like trendy restaurants and entertainment. Even in an open space, you need intellectual property, like patents, to keep potential competitors from overrunning you. Financial risk. Very few businesses can be started without money.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Charlie Capen is co-founder of HowToBeADad.com , an entertainment site and dad blog for “parents, soon-to-be parents and people who have no desire to procreate, whatsoever.” Otis Chandler built Goodreads in 2006 because he believed in social networking and wanted to see what his friends were reading. link] Matt Visser.