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Why Healthcare Startups are the Next Frontier for Small Business Gurus
For entrepreneurs, the past few decades have been marked by the wild success of tech startups. Companies that can literally trace their origins back to garages have come to see remarkable growth. These days, there…
Buying Multi-Units in a Franchise: What You Need to Know
As you prepare to close the deal on your first franchise, you will be offered a one-time opportunity for purchasing additional units. This is the multi-unit agreement. To incentivize the purchase of additional units, franchisors…
6 Reasons to Absolutely Avoid Mixing Your Personal and Business Finances
When you first start your business, it can feel like your company is an extension of yourself. It’s easy to let your personal and business finances mix together, especially if you’re not making a profit…
How Important is Trusting Your Gut When Starting Up?
Going with gut instinct has plenty of famous adherents—Steve Jobs was famous at Apple for making key decisions without referring to marketing data, one of which is said to have been the genesis of the…
6 Mistakes Preventing You from Making Your First Million Dollars
For entrepreneurs, making their first million is a sign that they have made it. Starting a business is tough and at the beginning, it seems like all the money just goes out and not enough…
10 Lessons for Running Your Own Architecture Practice
Architect Craig Applegath, founding principal of DIALOG’s studio in Toronto, Canada, knows how challenging it is to run a practice. With 25 years of experience and overseeing 150 employees, he understands the excitement and anxiety that goes hand-in-hand…
What They Don’t Teach You in Business School About Being an Entrepreneur
Here’s something they don’t teach in business school: At some point, starting a company will give you a stomachache. It will be caused by some combination of unrelenting stress, constant uncertainty and too much late night takeout…
5 Tips for Buying Equipment for Your Franchise Business
One of the biggest expenses when you first open your new franchise will be equipment. Depending on what kind of franchise you’re opening, these costs will vary. For example, if you plan to open a restaurant…
The Success Habit That Many Smart People Ignore
He was bullied so much at school that he was once thrown down a flight of stairs, then beaten until he was unconscious and hospitalized. But despite the outsider tag he had a passion. Born in a…
2 Strategies to Start Your Small Business While Working Another Job
There are thousands of wannabe-entrepreneurs sitting at desks right now who want to dump their jobs. What they need is a strategy so they can start their small business while working their full-time job. This…
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