Thursday, December 03, 2009

12 Things that can Cause a Small Business to Fail

1. Someone who hates you curses your small business using a failure voodoo hex

2. You hire family to help run your small business but you’re from a family of morons

3. A rich brat with family money, you start a small business on a lark

4. You fail to bribe the proper corrupt local politicians and they shut down your small business for safety violations

5. You open a burrito joint in the same block as five others, you’re not Mexican, and your cooking sucks

6. You start a technology company because you’re a screwball garage tinkerer

7. You incorrectly perceive yourself as being a person with great entrepreneurial instincts

8. Local Asian street gangs offer to provide protection for your small business but you opt out

9. You're a cartoonist and you think newspapers are a growth industry

10. Everything you touch results in an e. coli breakout

11. A meteor strikes

12. You love your small business so much that you fail realize that your products have zero appeal to anyone else in the world

2 Comments:

Blogger Sherm said...

If some of those "business authors" can create bestsellers out of 48-page fluff-books, you oughtta have a raging bestseller if you publish these (like 1 per page) Great stuff!

12:28 PM  
Anonymous Ofazomi said...

If only I knew that ten years ago... wait, er, um yeah. Yeah!

3:39 PM  

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