StartABiz Staff
by Christian Bonilla
I've been in the process of becoming an entrepreneur for a little over a year now. As some may see it, that means I've already failed. Certain business gurus will tell you categorically that entrepreneurs are born, not made. Their experiences are worth listening to, but I disagree. I suspect that many more people could start their...
by Kia Kokalitcheva
According to Hayley Barna, who co-founded the beauty box subscription service Birchbox and is now a venture capitalist, female founders would benefit from focusing less on the practical when pitching investors.
“Sometimes female founders are frankly too practical,” Barna said on Tuesday at Fortune‘s Most Powerful Women Next Gen conference in Laguna Nigel, Calif.
“But don’t forget to sell...
by Rose Leadem
To excel as an entrepreneur, having a “growth mindset” is vital, explains Virgin Group founder Richard Branson in a recent blog post. That means being willing to learn, make mistakes and experiment.
Successful entrepreneurs take risks, are willing to fail and live with the consequences. Those who are unable to face these challenges are likely not meant to...
by Ahmed Raza
The most successful entrepreneurs are driven, highly motivated and goal-oriented individuals. They always have a clear vision of what their end-goal is, whether it’s being the most dominant player in the industry or offering a unique service that others have shied away from. Merely starting a company is not enough to have a successful career. You need...
by Julie Lord
At a recent small business event, one of the most common topics of conversation amongst budding entrepreneurs was the best way to fund their fledgling businesses. Everyone I spoke to had raised enough cash to get started in a variety of ways, but it was taking the business to the next level that was causing some angst.
Many...
by Hari Ravichandran
When you start a business from the ground up, invariably you will make mistakes. It’s a rite of passage that is just part of the process. I know I’ve made plenty of them. But they’re worth making so long as you learn from them. Here are some of the biggest mistakes I’ve made, and what I’ve learned:
Going...
by Adnan Manzoor
The biggest challenge in any startup is always funding. It does not matter whether you have an award winning product, or the next big invention if you don’t have the money to bring it to market.
A lot of budding entrepreneurs have seen their dreams waste away due to lack of capital and the tightening lending conditions in...
by Rose Leadem
Women are founding companies at a historic rate, with more than 9 million women-owned businesses in the U.S. today.
Over the past 15 years, these women-owned firms have grown at a rate 1.5 times other small businesses and are estimated to provide more than 5 million jobs by 2018.
There’s still a long way to go though -- female-led...
by Erick Clifford
The modern era is the age of digitalization where every phase of your life depends on the internet. Every aspect of an individual’s life has become depended on internet and business is not an exception. Online business is one of the biggest dimensions of the firm that has been coming up in recent times. Every type of...
by Ernest Wilson
In an era where digital upstarts are disrupting long-established companies out of business every day, and in which the jobs of tomorrow haven't even been invented yet, the traditional skills taught in business and engineering schools are already proving insufficient. In addition to these conventional perspectives, so-called "soft skills" will take on paramount importance in enabling entrepreneurs...