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by Donna Paul
If you were to interview your friends or colleagues, you would find many of them who would like to be a business owner. Most of them could actually be able to run a business successfully had they have one, but none of them owns one indeed.
Running a business is not as easy as someone may think, at...
by Anna Bahney
Quietly daydreaming about starting your own company?
The United States may not have the best health care, education or political democracy in the world, but it is the best place to start a business — at least according to the Legatum Institute, a think tank that researches world prosperity.
Before you get too excited, though, you should know what you are up against:...
by Larry Alton
You want to be an entrepreneur, but to start a business, you're going to need money. The first line of defense here is to draw upon your own capital, or hit up your friends and family for some cash to get you going. But unless you and your family members have already experienced some significant success, that's...
by Stevy Tewel
When Arielle Jackson started her career at Google, one of her mentors taught her to embrace the fact that marketing is a highly tactical function. To this day, she loves sweating the small stuff — mostly because it all adds up to be big stuff. That’s how she helped home WiFi startup eero pull in $2.5 million in sales...
by Neil Petch
Let’s get started.
It’s that simple. If you want to launch your own business, the first thing you need is to start that process. In the words of one of the world’s most famous entrepreneurs: “The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.” And Walt Disney knew a thing or two about starting a...
by Ed McLaughlin
Without going the crowdfunding or venture capital route.
When I was starting my business, I couldn’t wait to lift off. I had decided to leave my corporate career and was impatient to get started as an entrepreneur. But first I had to decide how to fund my startup. My accountant counseled me to use other people’s money (a.k.a....
by Ashley Larson
Cities across the country and around the globe are facing an increasing amount of pressure in the race to become “the next Silicon Valley.” Fueled to some extent by self-congratulatory hype, tech insiders from Marc Andreessen to Robert Scoble have widely proclaimed locations as diverse as Estonia and Seattle as next in line for the Silicon throne.
Regardless...
by Andrew Thomas
We've all been there--sitting at our desks scrolling through Facebook as we avoid the task in front of us. It's called procrastination and it can take many forms, from frequent coffee breaks to small talk with co-workers.
Procrastination is often chalked up to poor time management, but the source of it runs deeper. It delves into our fears,...
by Kristopher Jones
When in search for the ultimate life coach for everything from business leadership to controlling our own destiny, Tony Robbins is the undisputed master. In the more than two decades of exposure to Robbins, I've been to 17 of his conferences and walked on fire (a hot bed of coals) with the master himself a total of...
by Young Entrepreneur Council
A mentor can go a long way in helping you realize your startup goals. From funding advice to entrepreneurial motivation, having an experienced guide through the startup journey will facilitate more success than any impressive funding round. So how do you find one?
Rather than a cold ask, start by building a relationship with a person you would like...