{"id":12618,"date":"2018-09-19T08:44:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=12618"},"modified":"2018-09-18T20:06:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T01:06:27","slug":"business-startups-separate-fact-and-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2018\/09\/business-startups-separate-fact-and-fiction.html","title":{"rendered":"Business Startups: Separate Fact and Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9449\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9449\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9449\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Opening-soon.-Photo-by-Becky-McCray.-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"Opening soon sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Opening-soon.-Photo-by-Becky-McCray.-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Opening-soon.-Photo-by-Becky-McCray..jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Becky McCray<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lots of advice is available for anyone interested in starting a business.<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>some of the claims are too good to be true<\/strong>, so you need to gather information from a number of reputable sources and sort out the myths from the realities before deciding whether starting a business is the right decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the biggest myths of owning your own business is that business owners get rich quick.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Profits rarely come quickly or easily, and business success may be measured in other terms, such as your ability to do what you want, or you are meeting a need.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Build it and they will come\u201d also proves to be untrue in reality<\/strong>. Each year, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office records more than 450,000 patent filings and grants nearly 200,000 patents. Yet less than 10 percent of those new ideas will be commercially viable.<\/p>\n<p>Some small-business startup myths aren\u2019t so obvious. For example: Starting a business takes a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>Reality has shown that many entrepreneurs started without a great deal of money. Many businesses start for $10,000 or less. The founders of Dell, Hewlett Packard and Domino\u2019s Pizza started with less than $1,000.<\/p>\n<p>However, entrepreneurs need to<strong> be prepared to invest some of your own money<\/strong> during the startup phase and have the ability and creativity to find resources through a variety of means.<\/p>\n<p>Another common myth is that successful business owners are lucky. Business owners will tell you that, instead, the success of small businesses is based on hard work, staying aware of the market and good decision making.<\/p>\n<p>So if you are looking to start a business, <strong>get the facts and avoid the fiction.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of advice is available for anyone interested in starting a business. But some of the claims are too good to be true, so you need to gather information from a number of reputable sources and sort out the myths from the realities before deciding whether starting a business is the right decision. One of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12618"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12621,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions\/12621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}