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If you want to start a business, read through the following list of business mistakes and go out of your way to avoid them. Any one of them could sabotage your new business venture and turn it into a failure rather than a success. Don't be afraid to fail. "The biggest mistake you can make is to be afraid of failure. Failure is key to your success, and jumping into your fear is very positive for your future business. How you pick up after failure and learn from your mistakes is the key to great success. Thinking that all you need is an idea. There’s a lot more. First and foremost is a good work ethic. The idea is just the beginning. You need to frame all the details of your idea from beginning to end, including game-planning and preparing for ‘what-ifs.’ You’ve got to create a solid foundation that you can build on. If you don’t dot your ‘i’s’ and cross your ‘t’s’ you’ll never get out of the gate. Not having a good lawyer. Starting a business is complicated and rife with landmi...

AMERICAN Express said it decided to remove Nigeria from its blacklist and return its card services to Nigeria in recognition of the huge number of honest Nigerians angling for its services. Meanwhile, UP, also known as Unified Payments, will now offer American Express card acceptance to merchants in Nigeria. American Express introduced the first plastic credit cards and accounts for about 22 percent of card processing market in the United States. Speaking exclusively to Financial Vanguard in Lagos on the sidelines of the launching of the American Express card services by UP, Chairman, American Express and Global Business Travel Nigeria, Chief John Adebanjo, said: “The blacklisting of the country is something that has been on for a very long time because of the activities of some of the bad elements in our society. “When they pick some of these transactions, the IP address originates from here. Now that has been cleared and there are other good people in this country that want to use th...