'After 6 months in the office we had no deals.I had to decide to stick to our plan or retreat.'

摘要

In an ideal world, your business growth would be nicely linear - or, if exponential is yourambition, at least the curve would be smooth. You wouldn’t have to make one-off investments solarge that they could make or break the company.In the real world of course, big opportunities sometimes land in your lap, and sometimes youwonder if you have the capacity to take them on - or to pay the price should they fail. Many anSME has faced this dilemma, and not all of them have come out with happy endings.