Posts Tagged ‘Getting Started’
The First 5: How to Hire Those Critical Early Employees
Similar to the foundation of a house, the founding team of a startup ultimately determines its future and potential for success—it’s the base on which the rest of the business will be built. Without a strong, durable, and well-balanced founding team there for support, a startup could crumble under the pressures of entrepreneurship.
Read More Threading Her Way to Success
As a child in India, Reema Khan used to spend hours after school helping out at her mother’s beauty salon. That experience came in handy after she moved to America, got an MBA, found a job, was laid off—and had to figure out her next best step.
Read More Diversify Your Portfolio with a Franchise Business
As an investor, if you have a healthy portfolio, you are always looking for ways to diversify your holdings. Owning a small business or franchise opportunity can be a smart addition which gives you the option to stay engaged in the semi-absentee model of operations while keeping your day job, so to speak.
Read More How to Secure a Living When Starting Your First Business
Starting a business is hard for a wealth of reasons, but the biggest thing holding most of us back is the big question: What am I supposed to live off while I wait for my business to become profitable?
Read More Is It Your Season?
Are you a woman wanting to start a business but struggling to determine whether or not it is the right time? Do you need to wait until the timing is more “spot on,” or should you just jump right in and get started?
Read More How Many Innovations Are Carefully Planned?
Most innovations come from responding to a customer’s needs, or finding a niche where products need improvement or extension. It is rare to innovate using a blank sheet of paper in a room with bare walls and no other contributors.
Read More Do Interns Secretly Run the World’s Largest Tech Companies?
In today’s booming tech environment, leading innovators recognize interns as the future of their companies. That’s why they’re willing to pay them premium compensation, offer them extravagant perks, and let them actually get their hands dirty and work.
Read More From Startup to Successful Student Entrepreneurs
You are never too young to make your first million, or at least that seems to be the suggestion from a quick survey of young entrepreneur millionaires who are running companies while still in school.
Read More A Family Business? Every Business Should Be
While plenty of empirical evidence can be found to delineate both advantages and disadvantages to working with family, we’re here today to focus on the key benefits of obtaining that all important “buy-in” from your significant other.
Read More Pick the Entrepreneur Lifestyle Alternative for You
You are an aspiring entrepreneur, eager to dump the corporate grind, and work to the beat of your own drummer, but you can’t come up with that killer idea to save the world. What are the alternatives that will give you the independence you crave, and challenge your business acumen?
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