LIVING THE STARTUP Being Prepared vs Being Over Prepared
by Kris McCarthy
We’ve all heard the expression“If you fail to prepare, prepare to fail”. I often think about this expression through the lens of a former professional hockey player turned startup founder. In either profession, those words always ring true to me and were/ are words I continue to live by, but is it possible to be over-prepared and what are some of the disadvantages to being so? In this column I chose to write about the two sides of the coin and my own experience with this topic.
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