How to overcome your biggest business failure

Holicent

VIP Contributor
When you fail as an entrepreneur, it's hard to bounce back. You've learned a valuable lesson and now have a better understanding of how your business should work. But what if the failure was so big that it can't be fixed?

That's what happened to one of my clients, who had been running his own company for almost a decade before he ran into some major problems that derailed the entire enterprise. The company ran out of money and he was forced to sell it off cheaply.

When he took over another company and started making more money, he quickly realized that he'd forgotten all about the previous one. He was too busy getting his own business up and running to worry about other people's businesses, which meant that when people started asking him for help with theirs, he couldn't do anything.

Here are three things that can further help you avoid this:

1.Understand the psychology of failure.

2.Don't be afraid to fail at first.

3.Sometimes, it pays to be patient.
 

Sotherefore

VIP Contributor
Well it is not all risks that must be taken by people who are interested to establish a business . Business is something that requires proper analysis and analysis must be based on the location you are interested to establish your business. If the location is very much suitable and the demands of people requires the type of products you are dealing on it is of a greater advantage to you and that is what must be first put into consideration .

When you are able to get every information related to your area of business then you can decide if the business will be suitable for establishment or not . One of the reasons so many people are failing on most businesses is because they establish a business without considering so many things like the location and also general understanding about how the business is being done . .
 

Ithedicious

Valued Contributor
That is true , sometimes could be our worst discouragement. Personally in situations that I have experience failures in my life the most important thing I will be looking forward to see is to understand the reason why the business was not succeeding in the first place . That will really help me to understand and to analyse if it is necessary for me to go back to the business or not.

If I come to understand that one of the reason was because of some carelessness then before establishing any similar business or engaging in something related to my previous business I have to first made up my mind to avoid previous mistake that was leading to my previous business failure.

At the same time it won't really be easy considering the fact that you have spent so much in your previous business and was not succeeding after all that you did.
 
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