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Eight commandments for failure

Illustration of a failing business (Photo Courtesy)

At the age of 13, he lost his mother and was forced to work in a farm by his father.

Unhappy with this, he left home to work as an apprentice and that’s when he founded his first company. His efforts to find funding kept hitting obstacle after obstacle, but he kept knocking on doors, and eventually got the money he needed.

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