Are you ready to be an entrepreneur?
Quick ReadFour questions, and more, to ask yourself before investing time, money and, yes, love in an enterprise.
Photo credit: Robert Mecea, 2006 | Grace Tappin, right, shakes hands with Vertraille Palmare-Polo, a program officer at Project Enterprise, a small nontraditional money lending institution, in Harlem. Tappin was sealing the deal on a loan in 2006 to open her Brooklyn business Move with Grace, a yoga, dance and fitness studio. She is still in business in Clinton Hill.
Starting a business isn't easy.
It requires bootstrapping, long hours and lots of risk.
It definitely isn't for the weak or trepid, so before plunging into that next big business venture, you need to seriously consider whether you have what it takes to be called an entrepreneur, say experts.
"Entrepreneurship is really a lifestyle," explains Thomas Shinick, a professor of entrepreneurship...
