Startup
What is the Most Profitable Franchise to Own?
If you’re looking to build your own business, buying a franchise is a great way to go. It has all the advantages of entrepreneurship with less risk because you’re joining an already-successful brand. So if…
Top 6 Benefits of Working with Family
Given the right conditions, an enterprise where you’re working alongside family can work spectacularly well. And these kinds of business can often generate a truly special atmosphere which is hard to create in any other…
Upbeat News for Small Businesses
These are heady days to be an aspiring entrepreneur in the U.S. Even the risk-averse with an idea might want to consider jumping into the small startup business arena today. Despite the historical odds against…
Planning to Bootstrap Your Business? Follow These 7 Tips
When starting a tech company, it can be tempting to make venture capital a priority, but finding it shouldn’t be what drives your business decisions. I knew I wanted to bootstrap my business, BuySellAds, so…
10 Startup Strategies to Minimize Cash Flow Disasters
The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service…
Millennial Entrepreneurs are Primed to Adapt to a New Business World
Some may think that developed countries are built on the backs of millionaires, but the truth is that small businesses help countries move forward. The problem is many business owners are retiring, and millennials are…
Let Go of These 5 Things to Become a Successful Solopreneur
Personal growth means to reinvent yourself. Change certain aspects and add something (new and more) to the many beautiful things you already are. That allows you to become the person you are intended to be:…
Enter the $50B Wedding Market by Setting Up a Wedding Barn
The wedding market is a $50-billion industry. The duration of the average engagement in the US is 15 months, and during this period, couples spend $4 billion on furniture, $3 billion on house wares, $400…
How to Validate Your Innovative Product as a Business
In my experience with technical entrepreneurs, they work hard on creating an innovative product and elegant solution, and assume that customers will flock to them (“if we build it, they will come”). The reality is…
Infographic: Branding for Small Business and Startups
My thanks to customlabels.net for this useful infographic on brand identity for small business. Earlier in my career I consulted for Apple Computer. I watched how zealously they guarded all the details of the big brand identity….