The Top Ten Secrets to Entrepreneurial Success

1. Be passionate about whatever it is you choose to do.

2. Define your niche and develop specialized products that add value for your customers. Don’t focus on your success. Focus on your customer’s success.

3. Enter a growing market. That growth can help finance your mistakes.

4. Choose your partners carefully. Make sure they supply skills that you don’t have.

5. Don’t borrow money unless you have to. Start small and grow according to your capacity.

6. Stick to the basics; understand your clients needs and never lose sight of how to satisfy them well.

7. Hire the best employees.

8. Always try to exceed your customers expectations.

9. Develop strategic partnerships.

10. Remember, everything takes twice as long and costs three times more than you estimated.