Get off the ground in forty easy steps Thinking of setting up a company? The Kernel's entrepreneurship columnist has assembled a forty-point plan to help you get off the ground without making avoidable errors. "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm". This is my favourite quote by Winston Churchill. As an entrepreneur you should expect to fail repeatedly. And especially with technical innovation you have to fail, to perfect your product or service. The last thing you need, then, while surrounding yourself with the inevitable problems you will encounter while attempting something new and different, is for a known issue to be the one that becomes a major problem in your business. With this in mind, while comment and opinion certainly has its place in this column, the key to any entrepreneurial venture is execution. So today I would like to offer a blueprint process to getting your start-up off the ground. This guide is inspired by a blog post by Basil Peters - indeed some of it is lifted verbatim, and I'm indebted to Basil for his original list. Procrastination is just a worthy an adversary as poor planning, so let's get started: 1. Build your start-up team. 2. If it's still just you, repeat step one. Statistically, start-ups with co-founders rather than single founders are over twice as likely to receive investment; Some will work evening and weekends until you can raise capital, but do ensure they are definitely