Entrepreneur Mistakes
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Cyber Security Steps for Entrepreneurs
Managing Passwords: 5 Easy Steps to Maintain Cyber Security as An Entrepreneur
Managing passwords is crucial as an entrepreneur.
As an entrepreneur, you have to wear many hats; you're your own manager, cleaner, and accountant. But when it comes down to it, making sure that your personal data is safe determines how far your business will go.
Below are seven sure-fire ways to ensure that your internet privacy is safe and secure:
Be Aware of Hacker Tech.
Hackers have come a long way from their rudimentary guessing games to figure out your password (e.g. [...]
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Avoid Hiring Friends as Entrepreneur
Don't Hire Friends, Just Give them the Money
It is not your job to save the world (aka Hire Friends) but if you volunteer, be prepared to work 24 hours a day. I've heard every sob story you can imagine and I'm not falling for it anymore. I'm not saying that it's impossible to have a good experience but it's RARE.
Hiring friends is always a problem. It almost always starts with some kind of a sob story which puts you behind the 8 ball from gate. They have an unfair advantage. [...]
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Preventing Business Put-Downs
Allow people to downgrade your business?
If someone insults or puts down your business. It's should be as if they insulted one of your children. I lose it.
There are times that when people don't get what they want from you and then act like kids in the playground, pissed because you won't play with them. They downgrade your business and try to make you feel bad saying things like ... 'nobody's interested in your business' or you're dated or you don't know what the hell you're doing. [...]
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Entrepreneur Mistakes: Unimportant Interruptions
Do not allow anyone to throw your day off. Nothing like unimportant interruptions
For some odd reason, many people think that black entrepreneurs do nothing but sit around and twiddle our thumbs and wait for money to come in. I guess this is why we get unimportant interruptions during the day? They are really under the impression that because we do what we love we're not working. And part of that is correct, we're not working. But we're always busy and we never sleep. [...]
Entrepreneur Mistakes
Mistakes in Business Lunch Meetings
I wouldn't say that being a business owner is hard work as much as I would say it can be challenging. As we all know, if you love what you do and you do what you love it's never work. Nevertheless, there are certain things that can get in the way of your daily progress. Some of which can literally make you not want to work for the rest of the day. [...]