Here are 6 more reasons small businesses fail and things you need to be aware of: 6. Hiring help in desperation can cause big problems. A janitorial startup that I know of brought on his next door neighbor to help him clean a medical clinic. The neighbor offered to have his brother-in-law help with the cleaning. Neither of them knew that the brother-in-law had a drug problem and a medical clinic was the LAST place he needed to work! 7. Refusing to change with the times (to be

I had a recent meeting with a number of individuals that were interested in starting their own businesses. During our discussion I was asked what I thought were the major reasons why startup businesses failed. I had to give it a lot of thought because the decisions that make a business succeed are often just the opposite of decisions that make a business fail. So, as I go through my list I'm going to stress the mistakes that I have seen, with the idea in mind that if you do t