Small business owners: if you’ve been watching the Olympics, you may be getting the wrong message. I’m here to tell you that you’re already a winner, even if you never get the business equivalent of an Olympic gold medal. For the past week, I’ve been mesmerized watching amazing athletes: Katie Ledecky making it look easy …
Is Crowdfunding Right For Your Startup?
Want to raise money for your new small business or entrepreneurial venture? Until now, it’s seemed easier for a twenty-something techie in San Francisco to raise millions of dollars than an experienced businesswoman in Ohio to raise thousands. Thanks to new equity “crowdfunding” rules that went into effect in May, that situation may have changed. …
How to Out-Amazon Amazon
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, just became the third richest person in the world, nudging out investor Warren Buffet. On his way to amazing riches, Bezos and his online behemoth store knocked out untold numbers of independent small businesses. Indeed, if you ask small retailers who their biggest competitor is, they’ll likely say “Amazon.” That …
Why your students will launch global companies
Globalization is a hot topic. With Britain’s recent vote to leave the European Union and US Presidential candidate Donald Trump vowing to build a wall between the US and America’s third largest trading partner, globalization is a current buzz word on cable news talk shows, but it’s been a reality for entrepreneurs for years. But …
What Small Business Can Learn from Elon Musk
Elon Musk, slow down. You’re a great entrepreneur, but as any successful entrepreneur or small business owner will advise you: build one business at a time. This past week, Elon Musk, CEO of electric car maker Tesla, unveiled his vision of the future, called “Master Plan, Part Deux.” Not content to just concentrate on building …
Is Trump’s Small Business Owner Real?
When Donald Trump and Republican leaders wanted a “small business owner” to address the GOP convention, they chose Floridian Michelle Van Etten. Republican convention information touted her as running “an international multi-million dollar network marketing business.” Sounds great. But is Van Etten really a small business owner? Van Etten participates in a multi-level marketing program …
Would You Want Donald Trump as a Client?
In four months, Americans will decide whether they want Donald Trump to be their President. For small business owners, however, it’s customers who affect their daily lives far more than Washington politicians. So before you consider what Trump would be like as your President, consider this: what would Donald Trump be like as a client …
Is Globalization Good for Small Business?
Globalization is a hot topic. With Britain’s recent vote to leave the European Union and a US Presidential candidate vowing to build a wall between the US and America’s third largest trading partner, globalization is a current buzz word on cable news talk shows, but it’s been a reality for small business owners for years. …
Can Startups Save the World?
Can startups save the world? Can entrepreneurs successfully tackle today’s most important problems – such as climate change, poverty, lack of clean water, extremism – and make money too? President Obama and the rest of the participants at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit seem to think so. “The world has shrunk. It is interconnected. All of you represent …
