Home topics news News News Here’s to the business owners who aren’t founders Belinda Bow June 16, 2016 We celebrate the start-ups that grow their businesses to great success, and we recognise the visionary business owners who inspire us with their dream and do things differently. But what about the business owners who did not start the business and are running with a vision set by someone else? I’m talking about the franchise owners and those brought in to run a start up or SME that has already had the hard yards put in to get it off the ground. Are they less deserving? Starting a business is seriously tough. Most fail. You need to think of everything, and most of that time is spent before you can start to make any money. It is a massive learning curve and it takes guts. Even the smartest founders with the best plans know that there is an element of risk involved in a starting a new business. So when someone starts a business and it does well, does it deserve praise and recognition? Absolutely! The unsung heroes But just as making a start-up successful requires incredible skill, tenacity, guts and hard work, so does keeping the business successful and growing it. Enter our other heroes: business owners who take an existing business to a new level of growth and progress. Sure a franchise owner or owner of an existing business does not need to go through the tough start-up phase (a