00:0006 февраля 2008
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00:0006 февраля 2008
СПб. What prevents people from doing and confuses them is illusions. Guy Kawasaki, a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, wrote in his weblog the top ten myths of entrepreneurship.
It takes
a lot of money to finance a new business. Not true. The typical start-up only
requires about $ 25,000 to get going. The successful entrepreneurs who dont
believe the myth design their businesses to work with little cash. They borrow
instead of paying for things. They rent instead of buy. And they turn fixed
costs into variable costs by, say, paying people commissions instead of
salaries.
Venture capitalists (VC) are a good place to go for start-up
money. Not unless you start a computer or biotech company. Computer hardware and
software, semiconductors, communication, and biotechnology account for 81% of
all venture capital dollars, and 72% of the companies that got VC money over the
past fifteen or so years. VCs only fund about 3,000 companies per year and only
about one quarter of those companies are or start-up stage.
Most business
angels are rich. If rich means being an accredited investor - a person with a
net worth of more than $ 1 million - then the answer is «no. Almost three
quarters of the people who provide capital to fund the start-ups of other people
who are not friends, neighbors, co-workers, or family dont meet SEC
accreditation requirements.
Start-ups cant be financed with debt.
Actually, debt is more common than equity. According to the Federal Reserves
Survey of Small Business Finances, 53% of the financing of companies that are
two years old or younger comes from debt and only 47% percent comes from
equity.
The growth of a start-up depends more on an entrepreneurs talent
than on the business he chooses. Sorry to deflate some egos here, but the
industry you choose to start your company has a huge effect on the odds that it
will grow.
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