Out Of BusinessWhat happens when your personal dream turns into every entrepreneur's nightmare?
ByJanean Chun•
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Failure is perhaps the scariest word in an entrepreneur'svocabulary. Like some evil thing lurking in the corner of everysmall business, the shameful closing is the unanticipatedantithesis of the celebrated grand opening.
But it happens. Although statistics show that manysmall-businesses fail, W. David Waters certainly didn't expectto become a statistic. He intended Honolulu-based Centaur Zone Cafeto be the prototype of an international franchise of coffeehouses."This," he says, "was supposed to be the launchingpad."
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