Interested in Starting a Business?

The first of the two talks that I attended today was the "Interested in Starting a Business? Is it Right for You?" talk delivery by Nigel Gorski of nigelgorskiconsulting.com. Nigel is a successful accountant and business consultant I was really looking forward to this talk prior to this even because starting a business is something that as always been in the back of my mind but I've never fully thought that I could do it, so the thought of attending a talk to determine if starting a business is right for me was brilliant. 

During the talk I realised that there was so much about starting a business that I didn't know about, when Nigel began to talk about the roles that he occupies day by day I began to notice my lack of business knowledge, Nigel talked about; Accounting, Payroll, VAT, Business Plans, Book Keeping and many other aspects of a business  Natural at this point I had about a million questions I wanted to ask but he noted he was on a time limit because he needed to be out of the room for one because there was another talk (coincidently the last talk I was attending of the week) so I kept the questions down to a minimum. 

Fortunately I was still able to ask quite few questions of which Nigel had answers for, this leads me into the thing that I enjoyed most about this talk and that was the business knowledge that Nigel had, he was able to answer any question from the audience with ease, and not only that he would convey quite technical business knowledge in layman's terms so that everyone could understand each point that he made. 

Throughout the talk Nigel was very honest with his assessment of students starting a business and noted that over 40% of new businesses fail within the first 12 months, but strangely this didn't put me off starting a business at all and I didn't see this as a particularly negative point, I appreciated what Nigel was saying, which was essentially don't start a business without the proper knowledge and planning. 

I can honestly say from the result of the talk that I feel enlightened by what I learnt  the amount of technical business terms used in the talk that I have looked up just while writing this is unbelievable and I now feel that if starting a business is the way I go then I can actually do it, and that is down to some of the things I heard in the talk from Nigel.

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