YEC
The Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses. Follow the YEC on Twitter @YEC.
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The time is ripe for online marketplace businesses, and their reach just keeps expanding. Peer-to-peer rentals, a hub for finding and booking key services, B2B networks or exchanges between individuals – anything’s possible. In an…
3 Strategies for Bootstrapping from the Beginning
While choosing to forego outside investment can leave your business more susceptible to the ups and downs of the market, it can also be exhilarating to be in complete control of your professional destiny. Your…
Looking to Start an Online Business with Selling Potential?
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How to Address the Root Causes of Unproductive Meetings
The “no-meeting day” has recently become a phenomenon of sorts. The idea is to give employees an entire work day that their company, department or team has designated 100 percent meeting-free. Companies in the technology,…
How Companies Can Start Planting Roots in a Community
Consumers don’t favor Whole Foods over Walmart for reasons relating to the chains’ respective sizes or ubiquity — it’s because only the former serves as a catalyst to community. The competitive difference between the homogenous corporate…
Before Extending a Job Offer, Look at These 5 Traits
When building your team, there is nothing more important than hiring someone who not only is good at what they do but who is also going to mesh well with both the rest of your…
How to Be the (Best) Face for Your Brand
In an ideal world, our products and business plans would speak for themselves, and all we would have to do is drop them into the laps of investors and watch the funding roll in. But…
Want to Build a World-Class Workforce? Here’s How to Attract Top Talent
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How to Use Street Teams to Build Brand Awareness
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