Any business venture new or old must have capital to start with. The amount of capital to start a business would depend on the size of the company, the scale of planned operations and above the product and the market segment to which it is going to cater. While labor, risk, entrepreneurship can all be easily obtained, getting capital is a tough job and many business establishments especially small ones fall by the wayside because of lack of capital and cash flow.
However, things are changing rapidly today and if there are good proposals which have a real market and have good long term prospects funding and capital are no longer issues. There are many people especially venture capitalists waiting with huge sums of money which they would like to invest, but invest sensibly.
So if you have a good business idea which you think is revolutionary, you can find out some venture capitalists and share it with them so that it could be funded and the business could take off in right earnest. In fact many small businesses have started on a very small micro scale and they have been able to scale up their operations with the help of venture capitalists alone.
While capital is an important element, the next thing that should be kept in mind is the long term retention of people and talents of an organization. An organization is a vague concept and it is the human resource which runs the organization. So retaining good talent is very important irrespective of the size of the organization.
It would make good sense for the management to be in constant touch with its employees and share its thoughts and views with them. It would also be a useful tool to get some good business ideas which could be implemented for the benefit of the organization.