Advice on advice

MattR said:

If you've got a business idea, you'd usually want to speak to people/firms already doing it to get their advice on the systems/processes involved, unforeseen pitfalls, margins etc etc. Often though that means speaking to people who you might to some extent be going into competition against/ or in other cases some large firm who might not want to be bothered helping out some random farmer who wants to start a micro-whatever.

I'd be interested to hear how people have gone about this and what their experiences have been? Cheers

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MattR said:

If you've got a business idea, you'd usually want to speak to people/firms already doing it to get their advice on the systems/processes involved, unforeseen pitfalls, margins etc etc. Often though that means speaking to people who you might to some extent be going into competition against/ or in other cases some large firm who might not want to be bothered helping out some random farmer who wants to start a micro-whatever.

I'd be interested to hear how people have gone about this and what their experiences have been? Cheers

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4course said:

ive always found its better to to talk with someone whos been there seen it done it , lets put it like this if you were going to set up an airline would you go to mr oleary or some guy who calls himself an aviation consultant and never risked his own cash or home

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