Each week we ask some leading questions to an entrepreneur or business owner.
Here’s some of our favourite replies to … If you were starting your business from scratch today, what would be the biggest change?
“With the know-hows and resources already, my biggest challenge would be finding the right team to re-run it with me. It’s not easy to persuade good people to stay on the bus with you.
The second biggest challenge would be myself – having the motivation to restart again and repeat the entire process. Things get mundane for us thrill-seeking entrepreneurs who constantly yearn for a challenge/something different.”
Zac Chua, Founder and CEO of The Kettle Gourmet
“100% I would have stopped agonising over small decisions and been quicker to act. I would have also hired out some tasks to other people and used some of my initial investment money more wisely. BUT You live, you learn and then you get a bumper car sticker!”
Sarah Kalmeta, Mindset Coach at Pivot Point, Co-Founder of Aveita Limited—
“Invention and starting a business is a journey intertwined with our other lives. History never repeats … though sometimes we perceive repeating patterns. Therefore, nothing would be the same. Yet, if I were starting out today without the knowledge gained on my journey with so many other people who joined me as companions, I would still have to learn everything.
Given our warming climate and my advancing age, the biggest change would be to make more haste, but still slowly. Learning takes time.”
James Trevelyan, Director and CEO of Close Comfort, Author of “The Making of an Expert Engineer”