How to Use this Manual?

1. Download the ROADMAP infographic.

2. Read the Success Triad in Annex 3.

3. Print several copies of the roadmap (download the tabloid size version printout) and share it with your (QR10) fellow entrepreneurs. NB: if you are unable to find their support, look for others who are willing to discuss your ideas. Always remember that if they say you are crazy or if you feel like a fish out of water, then it means you are doing things right!

6. Once you become an entrepreneur, your ROADMAP will still be useful to continue setting up your business. By trial and error, as well as becoming successful, your fears will start disappearing and you will understand better that failure is key in the process and road to success.

NB: these steps are described in Annex 3 of this manual.

5. Put the ROADMAP to practice

• Understand the formula to success.

• Take the first step (then the second, and then the third)

• Manage your resources and,

• LIVE the experience of becoming an

4. Zoom in on the ROADMAP and analyze each step. We suggest 10 steps to set up a business in the CCIs and increase by 70% your success rate entrepreneur.

Once you have acquired the professional experience, consider “scaling” your business. We suggest considering the model and steps contained in this manual to “scale”. Try, try, and try again until you achieve it. Info: in Silicon Valley, the average age for entrepreneurial success is between 37 and 40 years of age, and by the third or fourth attempt. Therefore, don't despair, what you are required to have in Mexico in order to succeed is lots of patience.

7. Get things right, and when you consider that you have understood how to incubate and mature a business, strive for scalability. Keep in mind that if it was an obstacle course to set up and mature your business in order to get to the third or fourth year, after that it will become even more complex: to make teams and get funding to survive the death valley of the fourth to sixth years) but wait! The best is yet to come, once you try to start SCALING!

If you are an entrepreneur, we recommend studying the Scalability Model shared in Annex 4.

(Para mayor información sobre escalabilidad, favor de verificar el Cap. 3. Nota de edición)

Back To Basics

Many times, a life experience will hinder us from generating new ideas, just like the ¨comfort¨ of doing well. There is a quote that says ¨the worst thing that could happen is that you do well, because after that you will do even better¨. Go back to basics, to the obvious. Don't be so arrogant as to think: ¨you already know that…¨.

From the of the magician More conference (QR11)

¨Can you believe that after 30 years of research we always get it right in the last attempt? This is a great quote from my friend Eduardo Anitua who has a Biotechnology company¨

You cant remain second to last, you have to make that one last attempt in order to GET IT RIGHT!