The real reason businesses fail to grow

According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 20% of U.S. small businesses fail within the first year. By the end of their fifth year, roughly 50% have faltered.

You may have heard these statistics before, but you may not have understood why.

More often than not, small businesses don’t fail because they are undercapitalized.

They don’t fail because they don’t offer great services or products.

They usually fail, because the Founder gets in the way.

What do I mean by this?

Let’s say you decide to build a better mousetrap. You’re smart, you’re great at what you do, and you know you provide outstanding solutions to a problem in the marketplace.

Here’s the catch.

There’s one of you.

No matter what your “magic sauce” is, unless it is replicable and can be delivered by others, you’ll always hit a ceiling in your growth.

The solution? It starts with understanding that you don’t know what you don’t know. This has to be followed by doing things differently if you want different results.

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