Small Talk: Six questions that would-be entrepreneurs must ask themselves

What does it take to start a small business? If you’re starting the new year with a resolution to make 2015 the year you finally go it alone, this is the fundamental question. Yet the high failure rate among start-up businesses – as many as one in two don’t make it through the first three years – suggests people aren’t thinking about their ambitions carefully enough. If you’re about to go for it, have you really considered what will be required of you – and whether your business ha