Tips For Starting Your Own Business 1. Work out exactly why you are starting your own business -it’s always useful to keep in the back of your mind in darker moments. 2. Trust your instincts. 3. Don’t be frightened of working with friends. 4. Employ people you like. 5. Seek out experts. 6. Remember you don’t need to know the answer to everything; you just need to know where to go to get the answers. 7. If something doesn’t feel right , don’t do it. 8. Follow up every lead. 9. Don’t be put off when people tell you how ‘difficult’ it will be, or how ‘brave’ you’re being. 10. Keep a good supply of Nurofen Plus handy. 11. Pull every string you can. 12. Take holidays. Source: Sally O’Sullivan, MD of Cabel Publishing.