Posts Tagged ‘Getting Started’
Startups without Business Plans are Expensive Hobbies
Based on my experience as an investor and mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, one of the quickest ways to kill your credibility and your startup is to offer a poorly written business plan.
Read More Why Persuasion is the #1 Skill for Entrepreneurs
Some people say – humorously – that entrepreneurship work is one third persuading investors to invest, one third customers to buy, and one last this persuading your parents to let you stray from the “conventional” path.
Read More 3 Ways to Successfully Bootstrap a Product-Based Business
Bootstrapping any business is tough, but establishing a consumer product-based business versus a service-based or tech-based startup creates some very specific challenges.
Read More 3 Steps to Starting Your First Freelance Business
So you want to start a business, but you have no idea where to start. Many beginning entrepreneurs have faced the same dilemma. The answer: start with freelancing.
Read More The Right Marketing for a New Business Costs Least
The case for zero paid media as the new marketing model was highlighted in a recent book, “Z.E.R.O.” by Joseph Jaffe and Maarten Albarda, both experienced marketers working with new companies, as well as larger firms.
Read More Why Small is Beautiful in 2015 Business
Do you remember the era when people had something that was called a “job for life”? It may seem like a slightly unusual proposition now, but for many workers it was something that was more or less taken for granted.
Read More Mobile Businesses: Is Opportunity Rolling into Your Future?
Sometimes old good ideas make the best new ideas and that’s what we are currently witnessing with the resurgence of mobile businesses. Today, what started as a food truck renaissance has now spread to a wide range of commercial activities.
Read More Why You Need to Love Your Business
If you are running a business, you are certainly not alone. There are roughly 28 million people just like you across the country, doing everything in their power to provide their customers with the very best products and services in their respective industries.
Read More The Best Franchises to Invest in Right Now
The core appeal of franchising, most would-be franchisees would agree, is that it remains a proven and substantive business formula for the distribution of products and services.
Read More Customer Development: A Test for Survival
Minimum viable product. MVP is today’s startup’s favorite acronym, as it should be. Building an MVP is all about speed. You have the opportunity to get your product out, in the shortest time possible, to the people who will be using it: your customers.
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