In planning out my future I looked back to my childhood to see what I loved as a
child. I realized my favorite thing to do was to play the game of RISK. I looked at the
game as a road map to my future as a small business owner. Following this map I can
In the game of RISK you start out with just a few countries and not many people
in your army. This is just like the business world we live in today. Many small businesses
start every year, and you will not make it very far without taking risk and chances. Most
businesses start with very few people for the many jobs. There for you must stay and
work long hours. The people in this new business must be dedicated and willing to take
risk to help the company grow. But they don't just hop in and take huge risk, like in the
game you must asses all the conqecuences of the decisions and make the smartest move.
Most people think that they just take chances and hope to get lucky. Yet this is not true
entrepreneurs don't just take a guess at what is right, they prefer situations in which they
After analyzing, the next step you must take is you have to act upon your
decisions, now by this step you are still a weak team yet you have more area and more
people on your side. Some of the other smaller teams are gone but that means the
competition is harder and fiercer. The way this relates is that you must make the sales and
use new business strategy to make your company grow and become a little more
powerful, than you were before. Also you must strive to reach the goals you set, then you
replace them with another set of bigger and harder goals. A major characteristic of an
entrepreneur is that they believe that they are smarter than their peers and superiors. They
want to control their own destiny, and when you are an entrepreneur you can
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