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Launch your own business:
5 ways to get there

Don't kid yourself. Starting a company is hard. But if you succeed, you're on your way to financial independence.
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Start your own business?
Being your own boss may sound great, but not everyone has what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. Do you?
1. Being your own boss may sound great, but not everyone has what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. Do you?
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Write a business plan
Do this even if you don't need investors. "It will force you to think in a disciplined way about what you are doing," says Thomas Kinnear, who heads the entrepreneurship institute at the University of Michigan.

12.6 million people are trying to start a business, either with a partner or team. Of those, one in three will actually launch a company.
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