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Many people have ideas, but haven`t see it yet. How come? They are not sure that will be work. So you should kill your fears and start doing smth. Look, here I have found 13 tips for starting a business and making it succeed.Know yourself, your true motivational level, the amount of money you can risk, and what you're willing to do to be successful. Sure, we all want to make millions of dollars. But what are you willing to give up to reach that goal? How many hours a week will you work on an ongoing basis? How far out of your comfort zone are you willing to stretch? How far will your family stretch with you? To be successful, keep your business plans in line with your personal and family goals and resources.Choose the right business for you. The old formula – find a need and fill it – still works. It will always work. The key to success is finding needs that you can fill, that you want to fill, and that will produce enough income to build a profitable business.Be sure there really is a market for what you want to sell. One of the biggest mistakes startups make is to assume a lot of people will want to buy a particular product or service, because the business owner likes the ideas or knows one or two people who want the product or service. To minimize your risk for loss, never assume there is a market. Research the idea. Talk to real potential prospects (who aren't family and friends) to find out if what you want to sell is something they'd be interested in buying, and if so, what they'd pay for the product or service.Plan to succeed. If you're not seeking investors or putting a huge sum of money into your business, you may not need an elaborate business plan, but you still do need a plan - one that specifies your goal – your destination – and then lays out at least a skeletal roadmap for how you'll get to where you want to go. The plan will change as you progress and learn more about your customers and competition, but it will still help you stay focused and headed in the right directions. Use our business planning worksheet to help develop that basic plan.Don't procrastinate. I've heard some people advise would-be business owners to not move ahead with their business until they have investigated every last detail of the business they want to start, and are absolutely sure it's all going to work and be profitable. The problem with that approach is that it leads to procrastination. No one ever really has all the pieces in place – even after they've started their business. Yes, you need to research the market, have a rudimentary plan in place and do things like get a tax id if needed, register with local officials, if required, etc.

There are a whole bunch of reasons.Living below your means and living well are not mutually exclusive. Spending money isn't the same as living well. True, below some certain level, things start to get more uncomfortable than most people like—most people prefer to live in houses or apartments rather than tents—but there are ranges of everything. A kitchen faucet can be had for $40, but the designer ones go up to $500 and beyond. You can learn to install it yourself (and gain a useful skill and a few useful tools in the process), or you can pay someone another bunch of money to install it for you. The difference is more than a factor of ten, but guess what—both will run water.A sporty car can be fun to drive, fine. But it can also be fun to take a walk on a sunny day. Learn to enjoy the latter, and you may never miss the former, or you may find that a 5- or 10-year-old car with a little pep left in it suits you well enough.Your youth is a good time to establish good habits. Setting aside some amount of what you earn is a good habit to have throughout your life, and the sooner you get used to doing it, the better off you will be throughout your life.Your savings can save or earn you more moneyA person I know borrowed a few thousand dollars on a payday loan, because she had no savings when her landlord lost the mortgage and she was forced to move in a hurry. She borrowed the money to cover the costs of the move, and last I checked was still struggling to pay it back a couple years later. At interest rates amounting to upwards of 50% annually, is it any wonder it took so long? Just a few thousand dollars would have saved her thousands more and years of agonizing payments on a scheme that barely lets her get ahead.Money saved is money you don't have to earn again. Do you have your eye on a $200 phone? Have you calculated how much of your time, after taxes, you will be investing in that phone? Now try it for a $200,000 house (plus interest). A 30-year mortgage is usually worth about a lifetime of work. In fact, that "mort-" part is about death. How much harder or longer would you like to work, in order to pay for living another $100,000 bigger, or further up the hill? Could you be just as happy in a more modest dwelling, if you knew it meant having five or ten years of your life back?It's also money that you don't have to borrow and pay interest on, should you choose (or be forced by circumstances) to make a larger purchase. It's money you can use to support yourself for a while in case of unemployment. (Of course, it's easier to support yourself while unemployed if you are already in the habit of living frugally, as noted above.) It's money you can someday use to retire sooner.Your savings can also help you avoid having to have too much insurance. It can mean you can carry insurance with a higher deductible (and thereby a lower premium). It can become the down payment on a house, so that you don't have to pay private mortgage insurance (PMI). It may mean you never need to insure some things, because you know you could cover it directly in case of damage or loss.Your savings, if invested, can earn more money the sooner you startGo find an investment calculator and tinker with it. The miracle of compound interest will produce results that mean that, with the same interest rate, you can invest far less and get far more, if you begin when you are much younger. To put it another way, your time horizon for investing is longest when you are young.Your savings gives you freedomYour savings frees you from a lot of worry. Even a month or so worth of cash cushion will spare you having to worry about where your next meal is coming from, or whether your paycheck will run out before your expenses do. Having a bit more savings could mean freedom to pursue higher education, or take a bit of time off (between jobs or otherwise), or give you a safety net during a career change. It could become the first bit of money you invest in creating your own business. It frees you from having to go into debt (which is much easier to stay out of than to get out of).You can retire on less if you know how to live on lessI just threw out a retirement planning worksheet that I was given with an account I don't still have. It starts with my income and age, and multiplies by some factors that are supposed to account for inflation and other stuff. It produces a very large number for what sort of retirement savings I am supposed to have to retire in comfort.I think it's incorrect in its assumptions that I will need 75% of my current income to retire. I don't spend anywhere near that now, so why would I want to spend all that when I presumably will have paid off my mortgage, ceased to maintain an office-worthy wardrobe, and shed the expense of my daily commute?You can spend wisely and still spend a bit and have funOne approach to consider is to get a few pretty nice things and use them well. Say you're eager to get a sound system. Go for a mid-range sound system that sounds good to you. You don't need something ultra-high-end to sound pretty good or to hold up to years of use. Do not buy it on credit; save up first, and don't use the last of your savings to buy it, either. When you get it home, take the time to set it up for the best sound it can produce. Then, enjoy listening to it rather than spending more money upgrading or dashing out for the next high-ticket toy.Another approach is to make your own luxury. If you love coffee, get good at making it at home. Even a very good coffee maker and thermos or travel mug will quickly pay for themselves if they curtail a daily coffee shop habit. Or, get an okay-but-dated house in a nice (or at least not-too-bad) neighborhood, and get good at fixing it up.You don't have to save every cent to live below your means, as long as you don't spend every cent, either.