Business Start-Ups

First published by Connect, April 2020

"You don't have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great."

There are a lot of quotes permeating in the digital ether about starting businesses, some of them aspirational, many contradictory in terms of their "steer" on how to progress. The simple fact is that there is no one set route to success (however you might choose to define "success").

However, you do have to take steps along that road in order to achieve that success. The question is how many and when – risking the security of a regular salary in today's economic climate is brave.

Guernsey has a long history of innovation in many forms. Whether it be privateering, printing, growing or wealth management, developing new ideas or different approaches has long been a hallmark of the island, if not a necessity. In today's digital world, differentiation is very difficult, but new ideas and fresh approaches have not ceased. It is more important now than