Creating a Plan
5 Small Business Pitfalls and How to Easily Avoid Them
If you are starting a business, you are likely to fail. While the exact percentage of businesses which fail within a few years can be disputed, there is no doubt that more businesses fail than…
Top Entrepreneurial Industries
Entrepreneurs are typically the vanguard of change. They develop innovative products and services, create new ways of getting things done, and lead the post-industrial economy into previously unexplored territory. As entrepreneurs engage in evolving industries,…
Is Your Brilliant Idea a Viable Business? 6 Ways to Find Out
Every great business started out as a great business idea. Maybe you have a thought or two about the kind of company you’d like to start but you’re not sure if your idea has the…
3 Strategies for Making Money from Home
Making money online can seem like a “get rich scheme” to some and to others a seemingly unreachable goal. Today, we are going to look at a few legitimate ways to earn money online, even…
Thinking of Opening a Restaurant? Map Out Your Vision
Opening a new restaurant is a peculiar mix of exciting and daunting. The industry is not exactly the birthplace of many get-rich-quick success stories: a lot of restaurants fail within the first year of doing…
5 Signs a Potential Partner Could Hurt Your Business
Starting a business venture with a friend sounds like a great plan—what could go wrong? If they’ve been a loyal friend and a positive influence on your life, why wouldn’t they do the same for…
Can Your Business Survive the Traditional Life Cycle?
Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and unfortunately all too often that path leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox,…
How to Start Your Home-Based Business
Many people want to own their own business, but a much smaller number actually take the leap. 69% of men and 58% of women say that they aim to be their own bosses, yet only four percent of Americans…
6 Keys to a Great Name for Your Business
Picking the perfect name when you start a business is an essential step on your entrepreneurial journey. It needs to be done first before you begin your logo design. Whether you want a funny name…
10 Most Common High Tech Business Plan Fails
I was asked about high-tech business plan fails on Quora recently. So this isn’t about lean plans for all business owners, but just the business plans submitted for angel investment and business plan competitions. I read about…
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