Timing Is EverythingIs it ever too early to plan? Give your startup an edge by mapping the next 10 years now.
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If you're in the startup phase of your business, it can behard to see all the way to the end of this week, much less the endof a decade. But since we're all about business plans andmaking maps for success, we at狗万官方wondered if itwas possible to make a 10-year plan for your startup business.
According to Thomas Kinnear, executive director of theSamuel Zell &Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at theUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, it is not only possible, butit's also a good idea. "I think it's a gooddiscipline," he says. "But the further you get out, theless you should think of it as an operational plan and the more youshould think of it as a process to drive thinking." Therefore,a 10-year plan is going to look more like a compass than a roadmap, in that its purpose is to point you in the rightdirection.
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