Key Takeaways
- Entrepreneurs face five risk categories simultaneously: financial, operational, market, legal/compliance, and reputational.
- Risk scoring (probability x severity) allocates limited mitigation resources to the highest-impact threats.
- Undercapitalization, market downturn during ramp, and key-person risk are the top three threats for most startups.
- A risk management operating system covers identification, mitigation, monitoring, and pre-planned response protocols.
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Test Your Knowledge
1.What are the five categories of entrepreneurial risk in real estate?
2.In the risk scoring framework, what score threshold requires immediate mitigation plans?
3.What are the four components of a risk management operating system?