Startup
Franchises and Business Opportunities
We’re all familiar with comparing the similarities and differences between two things, but unless you’re a business aficionado you may not be familiar with franchises versus business opportunities.
4 Ways to Make Your Business Plan Stand Out to Investors
When a start-up presents a business plan, it’s the job of a savvy potential investor to poke as many holes in it as possible. They don’t need to figure out why they should risk their hard-earned, non-refundable money into your start-up business.
8 Ways to Rock Your Business, From the Founder of Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp
You don’t have to have an international rock star headlining your idea in order to know if it’s worth pursuing, nor do you need a million dollars to make it a success. Through my experiences developing concerts, tours, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp, I’ve discovered that great ideas all share four common characteristics.
“You’re Just Getting Started”
Use your own experiences to build upon and benefit others. People want to be around you, be part of your efforts and energy; whether in private business, public service, or charitable work. It will catapult you to even bigger and better things down the road.
How to Choose Your Own Venture
As a professor of social entrepreneurship and an entrepreneur, people often approach me with all their ideas. They get overwhelmed with how to start choosing their first venture (or second, for that matter). Whether you are new to entrepreneurship or starting another venture, you begin the same way.
How to Tame the Piles of Paperwork
One minute the office is tidy, organized, and everything has its place. The next, the paper starts piling up, folders are bursting with documents that you probably don’t even need, and the thought of sorting through it is a daunting nightmare.
VIDEO: How to Design Your Brand by Getting Started Today
Branding can be a difficult part of building a new business, since most businesses are focusing on every other aspect of their operations. The important thing to remember is that branding is just as much a foundational element of a new business as gaining new customers.
Are You Suffocating from Ambition?
Uncertainty is important, but what it really boils down to is a reduction in the amount of control you feel you need to possess. In other words, if you concentrate on your expertise and the various other things that are crucially important to you (your core values), everything else will come together.