Thursday, May 31, 2012

10 Rules for Starting a Small Business

What follows are 10 rules for starting a small business, chosen from among the many Slate reader submissions on the basis of readers’ votes and our own favorites. The list is designed not to encourage you to chase your wildest dreams but to help you turn your more viable dreams into a real livelihood.

An employee at a large corporation can afford to be mediocre--you can't. Every job you do for a client has to be the best job you could ever do; every widget you make has to be the best widget you could ever make. If you are excellent at what you do, and every job you do for a client is a masterpiece, word will spread. Self-employment is a meritocracy.

Presenting Slate readers' 10 best nuggets of entrepreneurship advice. By Will Oremus - 10 Rules for Starting a Small Business - Slate Hive

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