Posts Tagged ‘Getting Started’
If You Love What You Do the Money Will Come?
You have heard this advice at least once: Do what you love and the money will follow or do what you love and it won’t feel like work. It seems easy but it’s not.
Read More Taking Action: From MVP to Profitable Small Business in One Month
How long did you wait to start your business? A week… a month… a year? Almost everyone I know has one major regret when it comes to their business: that they didn’t start sooner.
Read More The 3-Step Dance: Creating a Great Company
Creating a great company in a relative vacuum is an exercise in complete trust that the entrepreneur knows what’s best for the customer. I’ve developed the three step dance in order to help form a repeatable method of how to create a great company from an early idea.
Read More Entrepreneurs Need Experience More Than an MBA
I don’t have an MBA. I used to fear that this would put me at a disadvantage in starting my own company, but now I’m convinced that it may be the other way around.
Read More 7 Reasons You Should Start a Business Today
If you’ve been hesitating about starting a business, this post is designed to light the fire under you. If you’re reading this post, you evidently have interest in becoming an entrepreneur. But maybe fear is holding you back. You’re not alone in that regard.
Read More Turnkey Franchises
You’ll see the word “turnkey” on a lot of franchise business opportunity materials, in phrases like “turnkey franchises” to “turnkey marketing.” Not all franchisors mean the same thing by this word, though.
Read More Lessons from the Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery
Jamaican-born Lowell Hawthorne’s recipe for entrepreneurial success has been to offer West Indian natives living in the U.S. a taste of home.
Read More 3 Things Every Startup Needs to Know
While working to attract your first customers (hopefully the first of many), you need to ensure your customer service approach is on the mark to retain those customers and strengthen those all-important B2C relationships. Here are three tips that every startup needs to know.
Read More Kickboard: New Orleans Small Business Startup
Small business opportunities abound in the poorest and most needy areas as well as the most affluent. Everyone knows that old saying that tells us necessity is the mother of invention.
Read More Attracting Investors for Your Start Up Business
Sometimes it is better to use an investing partner than a bank to get the capital needed for a business. While many people think that franchising requires bank loans, there are other alternatives for financing your franchise, including investors.
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