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Risk in business could make someone bankrupt and loss everything. There are smart ways to prevent it happens to you. Check out the four things entrepreneurs should not do in their business.

Financing your business with personal credit card
Why? It is because it has higher financing rate, and because it will use your safety net for emergency. Your credit card limit is supposed to cover your immediate emergency needs when one of your family member sick before your insurance takes care of the expenses. And remember, there are a lot of items your insurance will not cover for you.

Withdraw money from your retirement fund, education fund or other future fund
Your retirement fund is something you should keep for your golden age. If you utilize it now for your business you will put business risk on your pension life. Your kid education fund is a stand by fund for your children university education. It should wait the right time to utilize it: when your kid goes to university. The fund is intended to make sure your children have a secured future no matter what financial condition of your family at that time. Don’t put risk on this vital account.

Expand credit limit from other family member’s credit card
Doing this is totally insecure your family. Once you use your credit card for business, and continue with your wife’s, think what will happen if your business is not going well. You will end up with a severe financial condition of the whole family.

Pledge you house for personal credit
This option will open the possibility of losing assets from long you hard work. What you want is to have a better future with your business, not decreasing the quality of life you have now. Don’t choose credit with repossession risk on it.

The risk in the four things entrepreneur should not do is easily solved by obtaining business credit. This type of financing employs corporate credit concepts which separate personal assets from your business.

With business credit, you can secure your future pension fund, your kid has guarantee for their advance education and your credit card will be ready for any unwanted emergency needs.

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One of the most important benefits of incorporating your business is protecting your personal credit. Corporate credit is obtained in the name of the business without any personal guarantees from the business owner. The business is it’s own entity, with it’s own credit history and credit score. Whatever happens with the credit of the business, it does not effect the owner of the business, unless the owner was required to give a personal guarantee.

Business owners who finance their business with personal credit, not business credit, are not only putting themselves at risk. A business owner with a family who suffers a downturn in business may find that their assets, like the family home, now belongs to the bank. If all of a persons personal credit is tied up in their business, there will be nothing left for household emergencies.

The biggest risk in using personal credit for a business is the threat of being sued. If the business is not a separate entity, with it’s own credit, one frivolous lawsuit could have the business owner and their family left with nothing. No home, no credit, and no cash. The only way to obtain credit in your businesses name is to incorporate in some form. The cost of doing so is well worth the many protections it provides to a business owner.