Entrepreneurs from Brazil, we need you.

(Adm. Pierre Januário)

Our country is great, full of opportunities, larger than many European and more than many Americans, we are the eighth largest economy. A dream of Brazilians is to own one's own business, own your own business, Lord of your life.

Undertaken, is one of the paths that leads people to realize this dream.

According to the report of the GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor - http://www.gemconsortium.org), 13 in 100 Brazilian adults are involved with the entrepreneurial business itself, are conducting, managing, promoting their own businesses, whether through opening new business or buying an operating business.

Not easy, is not a bed of roses, the environment is aggressive, governments do not help, the market is demanding, the tax burden is heavy, credit is expensive bureaucracy paralyzes, the cost is high, and the loneliness eats but ... for the good of families, municipalities, states and the country is necessary to overcome all challenges. Companies pay taxes, employ people and are key to the economic development of any city.

Among the many mistakes committed by new and old entrepreneurs point out four main types:

• Do not think big, do not miss opportunities to prepare for the great and good deals;

• Seek financial resources in the wrong places for people and investors inadequate, unable to format and present their ideas, thus losing time and more money;

• Centralizing and suffocate. To grow you need to delegate, assemble and rely on the team, without people, no company can grow; and

• They forget what it takes to sell, you will earn money by selling along the way are so many problems, fires and challenges that they forget the most challenging, sell. All other issues are ancillary, which will ensure the survival of the business is the sale of products or services.

My advice to entrepreneurs, constantly observe these four problems and stay alert not to fall into these traps, you need to turn small businesses into large companies.

Entrepreneurs, strength, energy and stamina to thrive.

Adm. Pierre Januário

4175 CRA-MA, President of the Association of Administrators of Maranhão - SINADMA (www.sinadma.org.br), Associate Director of i3Projetos, Planning, Consulting and Management (www.i3projetos.com), Investor Business (www.investornegocios.com.br). Administrator, Me Business Management, MBA Project Management, Esp. Local Economic Development, Esp. Business Management.