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How to Be a Successful Serial Entrepreneur
Running multiple businesses is not for the faint of heart—doing so requires a lot of work and dedication. But if you’re driven, motivated, and passionate about what you do and who you do it for, serial entrepreneurship might just be the next step to take your business in.
The First 5: How to Hire Those Critical Early Employees
Similar to the foundation of a house, the founding team of a startup ultimately determines its future and potential for success—it’s the base on which the rest of the business will be built. Without a strong, durable, and well-balanced founding team there for support, a startup could crumble under the pressures of entrepreneurship.
Threading Her Way to Success
As a child in India, Reema Khan used to spend hours after school helping out at her mother’s beauty salon. That experience came in handy after she moved to America, got an MBA, found a job, was laid off—and had to figure out her next best step.
How to Secure a Living When Starting Your First Business
Starting a business is hard for a wealth of reasons, but the biggest thing holding most of us back is the big question: What am I supposed to live off while I wait for my business to become profitable?
It’s Mostly in the Execution
“Everybody’s got a plan—until they are punched in the face,” stated boxer Mike Tyson. My experience personally reviewing over three hundred executive summaries each year, all sent to me unsolicited, seems to bear out the truth in Tyson’s statement.
If You Love What You Do the Money Will Come?
You have heard this advice at least once: Do what you love and the money will follow or do what you love and it won’t feel like work. It seems easy but it’s not.
Taking Action: From MVP to Profitable Small Business in One Month
How long did you wait to start your business? A week… a month… a year? Almost everyone I know has one major regret when it comes to their business: that they didn’t start sooner.
The 3-Step Dance: Creating a Great Company
Creating a great company in a relative vacuum is an exercise in complete trust that the entrepreneur knows what’s best for the customer. I’ve developed the three step dance in order to help form a repeatable method of how to create a great company from an early idea.
Lessons from the Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery
Jamaican-born Lowell Hawthorne’s recipe for entrepreneurial success has been to offer West Indian natives living in the U.S. a taste of home.
OORAH Legislation to Benefit Veteran Business Owners
It has been proven time and time again that veterans make very successful business owners. It’s about time New York, as well as other states with large veteran populations, understand this and start making efforts to utilize and harness the talent that is already within.