So a friend told me about this entrepreneur. He’s planning on setting up a retail business. The idea’s been over a year in gestation. He’s spent 12 months trying to secure his ideal premises, he’s been thinking about price promotions to offer, he’s even got staff t-shirts branded and ready to go. He’s played around with different financial models on spreadsheets.
Great. His idea has gone off the laptop and into the real world.
But the problem? He’s not actually done anything with the business yet - he hasn’t made it happen. Rather than get t-shirts done and spend months searching for premises wouldn’t it be more effective to launch and test his idea? Take a market stall somewhere to test his products. Talk to a landlord of an empty shop about having a ‘pop-up’ shop for a month trial, even trading online to crowd source and test demand. He could kick-off the business like that in a flash. Getting t-shirts made for his non-existent staff is the least of his worries! If the risk is low, he just needs to press ‘go’.
(Yep, he just needs to #unplan it)
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