5 EASY STEPS EVERY START-UP SHOULD CONSIDER FOR SUCCESS

Oluwafemi Adeosun
3 min readJul 7, 2022

Have you ever wondered how renowned successful businessmen navigate their way to the top? In my time-invested research, I found these five major guaranteed easy steps to a mind-blowing success for start-ups.

1. MIND-SET

Positioning of the mind is very critical and key to the build-up and birthing of everything important in life, if success will be accomplished on any project at all, your mind has to be well-positioned and built to be resilient, determined, and tenacious towards achieving its course. It is only a formidable mind that can house an Idea that will be globally sought after. In essence, invest and empower your mind with so many needed virtues to take you through the journey you are about to embark on, as there is the bedrock on where every other thing rests.

2. IDEA

This is the nucleus of every step to any start-up in the universe, and that you are here reading this write-up attests to the fact that you are nurturing an idea in the corner of your mind. What’s that concept, thought, sensation, the convicted opinion that you’re inspired to bring to the limelight? Here’s the stage where you write out the raw idea, ruminate over it, adjust, prune, and do a lot of modifications to the raw Idea till it is fine to taste, remember, it has to worth the masses’ attention and capable of yielding sustainable income in a not too long time.

3. LOCATION

The success of a start-up is largely dependent on the market target, which means if any business will thrive, localization is a very strong determinant. Location in this dispensation may not necessarily mean a geographical area, it could also mean an online space where one can reach out to people and they get to know what you do and how they can be of benefit. Figure out the best place where you can kick-start your business and will not be frustrated in a short time.

4. CAPITAL

This is arguably one of the world’s most difficult resources to find. However, it’s not that bad, here are a few easy ways with which one can source money.

Firstly, those who surround you matter a lot in your growth and speed in life. Look inwardly to your family and associates, if all they have got is motivation and a pat on the back, it’s fine. Do not pick offense just look elsewhere. If looking inward could not meet your need, then we look outside, Have you tried to pick up loans, or submit proposals to some powerful dignitaries and philanthropists who take delight in lifting young prospects around the world, reach out to them via mail and their websites with your proposals attached. Another way to source capital is Skill, what skill do you have? It’s easy to engage in freelance jobs that will fetch you some bucks that can be saved up to start your idea.

5. SET-OUT

“Three hours too early is better than a minute too late” Williams Shakespeare. In a world of millions of great people with mighty Ideas, if you hesitate to do what you should do in time, you may be shocked to see another person doing exactly what you have been putting all your energy and resources together to set up. If you have fought battles of the first four steps and came out victorious, the only stage left for you is what I call the Set-out stage. Go all out with all the guts you’ve got, gird up your loins, and embrace what lies ahead. It promises to be a great adventure. There’s no better time to start than now!

If you have followed through with this write-up to this point, I perceive a strong desire from you to embark on a mind-blowing project that will gain much powerful recognition as you will be providing solutions to problems out there.

Why not start now? Let’s make the world a better place.

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