[cs_content][cs_section bg_image=”https://drgruder.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/entre.jpg” bg_color=”hsl(0, 0%, 100%)” parallax=”false” separator_top_type=”none” separator_top_height=”50px” separator_top_inset=”0px” separator_top_angle_point=”50″ separator_bottom_type=”none” separator_bottom_height=”50px” separator_bottom_inset=”0px” separator_bottom_angle_point=”50″ class=”cs-hide-xs” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;
Ron felt like a kid in a candy shop during his first CEO Space Free Enterprise Forum (CEO Space International is one of the world’s oldest and largest entrepreneurial development organizations). He was excited by the extraordinary array of business development resources and contacts who were suddenly available to him through his membership. And yes, he also felt somewhat overwhelmed by having discovered that there is a lot more to successful entrepreneurship than he had imagined.
The combination of Ron’s excitement, confusion, urgency, and not seeking sufficient mentoring, resulted in his making four decisions that ended up costing him an awful lot of wasted time, energy and money: