Today's sports entrepreneur realize that you can't build a sustainable business sector if you let the community be consumed by social problems.

It can be challenging to earn enough credibility that will draw investors in the early going, so it's important to build small networks of colleagues and surrounding support system's.

Who know and like you in a professional capacity, in the startup period, those relationships will be critical to survival in the beginning.

While not taking on too much, decide which problems are managable and within the scope of the mission statement of the organization and develop a plan that will fit within the daily operation system.

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