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Are You Really Ready to Launch Your Business?
Entrepreneurship presents unique difficulties that the 9-5 working crowd may never truly comprehend, sometimes even before the business is up and running. One of the challenges entrepreneurs face before starting a business is knowing the…
Going into Business with Your Best Friend: A Good Idea or Potential Problem?
My best friend and I would lock ourselves in my tiny, yellow room in Brooklyn, sitting on my bed with a hundred pieces of paper around us, quietly and carefully plotting how we would launch…
5 Ways to Be Your Own Boss Without a Degree
While a college degree was once necessary to avoid the corporate world and become your own boss, there are more opportunities than ever today that don’t require one. Each of these five jobs gives you…
6 Simple, Reliable Steps for Entrepreneurs to Relieve Stress
As an entrepreneur, you simply can’t avoid all of the stress triggers in your life. However, what you can do is learn how to deal with it. In order to avoid the many health problems…
How to Run a Productive Discovery Day
The term “Discovery Day” can be a bit misleading. While there is certainly an element of discovery in a prospective franchisee visiting your company and meeting stakeholders for the first time, Discovery Day is meant…
5 Things You Should Know When Starting a Business
Starting a business is not for everyone; in fact, some work a lifetime for a company and still live a happy life, while others have the mindset and skills they need in order to start…
Sole Proprietor vs LLC: 7 Things You Need to Know
When you first make the decision to go into business for yourself, it’s an exciting moment. You’re probably not thinking about all the logistics and little business decisions you’ll have to make along the way….
Start Small and Do This to Avoid New Startup Burnout
There are millions of small businesses out there. They all start with an idea. The problem is that sometimes these ideas are thin and the business owner expands and/or launches too quickly, spends way too…
When Is It Time to Become an S Corporation?
For most new businesses and business owners, keeping it simple is key. After all, launching a new business requires attention to detail and doing many things right. For that reason, most new businesses start out…
8 Smart Tips to Soliciting Friends and Family Funding
It’s great to start with a big dream as you contemplate a new business, but finding the money you need takes more than dreaming. As an advisor to young entrepreneurs, I find that many are…
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