Many aspiring business owners halt or postpone their dream due to the sometimes misguided belief that the funds needed for startup cannot readily be raised! Of course it is indeed a challenge to raise funds, particularly for micro and small entrepreneurs who sometimes have a big dream and belief without a tried and tested product but one rejection is not a good enough reason for giving up!

If you hear a voice within say that you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

I was the type of person who was very affected by peoples’ opinions of my ideas. If I presented a business idea to someone, and he or she started to shoot it down…it bothered me! Now it doesn’t. I simply consider what the person has said; think it through, and make my own decision in the end.

I was up this morning doing nothing but thinking about what to do with my money(invest, save, spend, where to invest) and I figured I will come ramble a bit.