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Surviving Your First 3 Years in Business

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April 26, 2013
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Surviving Your First 3 Years in Business

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Kiat Lim

April 26, 2013

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Transcript

  1. Surviving Your First Three Years in Business

  2. May,  2008

  3. June,  2008 Kiat

  4. June,  2008

  5. Guess  the  outcome?

  6. Challenge #1 Setting a clear (and good) destination

  7. Where is your business?

  8. None

  9. Challenge #2 Building a Solid Business Foundation

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  17. Challenge #3 Getting Help

  18. None

  19. The hands will break if its not tight enough!

  20. Challenge #4 Profits is the only thing

  21. None
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  24. Challenge #5 Spending Money

  25. Spending = Investing

  26. None

  27. Challenge #6 Selling yourself and your company

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  35. Challenge #7 Managing HR (Human Relationships)

  36. None
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  39. Challenge #8 Expanding

  40. None
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  42. Challenge #9 Failing Forward Fast

  43. June,  2011

  44. Looking back...

  45. None

  46. Challenge #10 Take the first step and Survive!