Entrepreneurs usually make common mistakes. Some become costly, which botches your planning and management or, in some cases assigning a wrong employee or team member to take on any vital project. Entrepreneurs can linger too long to leap into a new field or miss opportunities on an elevated level.
Having a wrong partner or decision maker or even board members can lead to a business problem. This chapter will learn about entrepreneurs' different mistakes and focus not to do such fault multiple times. This chapter will also take you to a general approach to forecasting your company's needs and plans.
Some Common Mistakes
Some of the biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make at the very early stage of company growth are some of these below-mentioned terms and topics.
Delusional Level of Optimism
It concludes the minds of entrepreneurs that you need to scale before you need to scale. What happens if you think to hire some professional level programmers and developing the project on one single go and present the idea to the market. As an entrepreneur, you build the entire infrastructure and increase your business's scale without having anything in hand as revenue or profit, or even a prototype of your product is just a blunder, entrepreneurs make usually.
Hire Mirror Image
According to some research, it is found that the usual mentality of newbie entrepreneurs and startup makers is to hire people who are of his/her type. For example, if you are a management guy, you will plan to hire a management-oriented employee; if you are a geek, you mainly focus on hiring geeks; if you are a salesperson, you will hire more salesperson. But through this culture of hiring, your company will lack diversity and strengths.
Entrepreneurs need a team that complements each other. It should comprise an all-in-one team where some of them could make your idea a product, someone who can sell it, manage the team, and coordinate with different customers with a different psychology.
Obsession with Control
Many entrepreneurs, specifical co-founders, believe that if they own 51% of the company shares, they own it and control it and make active decisions. But, unfortunately, it never happens that way. Managing or leading your company in the right direction does not come with just voting or percentage of shares one is having; it's more dependent on delivering on your promises, making innovation more refined, forecasting what you are planning next, and bringing some brilliant business model with the calculative approach. It is much better to own a small share of a humongous company than own a large percentage of shares of a small company where their product is a piece of crap. The goal of entrepreneurs is not to focus on the percentage of shares but to make the company valuable.
What Is Forecast and How It Plays an Important Role?
Forecasting helps an entrepreneur and his/her business to plan for the future and act accordingly. BI (Business Intelligence) tools are used in such scenarios. Data analytics for forecasting also help the company's co-founders conclude what things need to be done to achieve the next goals. Forecasting techniques are required by both startups, small as well as large business owners. They give a lot of attention and concentration to stipulate how to construct their sales and business forecasts.
The most popular type is the "demand forecast," which not only map the entrepreneurs as what products the company's regular consumers are buying but also which type of products need to manufacture more, what is the next booming market and trend, which type of employees to hire and how the pricing of goods and services has to be made. The qualitative method has the "Delphi Method" and "intentions survey" techniques. In quantitative methods, the forecasting is done by time series analysis as well as conjoint analysis.
Prediction to a certain level of percentage after analyzing all the data can help you and your board of decision-makers makes appropriate decisions. This quality of forecasting periodically is essential to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
