Forty percent cited lessons learned from failures as extremely important

"Forty percent cited lessons learned from failures as extremely important." There's the Catch-22. You may have to fail in business before you can succeed. If you haven't started a business before, you have to learn how to fail without catastrophic results. That could mean knowing when to shift strategies or when to abandon an investment. A lot of startups these days are "solopreneuring" ventures with one full-time employee, the owner. But it's very hard to play all the positions on a team. Knowing how to outsource and develop a virtual team is a critical skill if you're going to build anything that scales beyond what you can do yourself. No matter how great your idea, you will be inherently limited if you do everything yourself. From the start, find other people to do things you don't absolutely have to do. Find a virtual assistant, outsource telesales to qualify leads, get your CPA's office to do your bookkeeping. You focus on the things that only you can do, such as getting new sales.