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 …
This is the Best City for Women to Start Businesses
If you’re a woman, New York City is the best place in the world to start a business. That’s what Dell — in collaboration with the research company IHS and with participation from the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard — found out when it commissioned research on the best cities for female entrepreneurs to start and scale a high-growth business. In …
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America Needs Immigrant Entrepreneurs
This was a terrible week in America. A lone gunman – fueled by hatred – shot and killed 49 Americans and wounded 53 others who were happily celebrating life. In the aftermath of the horrific Orlando shooting, even though the shooter was American-born, bellicose, xenophobic, politicians blamed immigrants. To end tragedies like these, they urged, we …
7 People to Listen to for Small Business Advice
When you own a small business, everyone wants to give you advice. “You know what you should do,” your annoying brother-in-law Sheldon tells you at the family barbecue, “you should sell everything below your cost; customers will flock to you.” Right, and pretty soon, you’ll be out of business. Unsolicited advice comes from all kinds …
Grow Your Small Business with Partners
Want to grow your small business or entrepreneurial startup without spending a pile of money expanding to new locations, manufacturing new products, or hiring a slew of new salespeople? Then it’s time you look around and find a strategic partner. Typically, when someone says the word “partner” in small business, they mean a person who …
Keep Your Ego out of the Classroom
Students not launching the next Google? Don’t worry—they’re still entrepreneurs. Sure, every entrepreneurship professor wants to be able to boast, “I taught the gal (or guy) who started (the next Google, Airbnb, Uber, or other unicorn).” But the truth is: it’s probably not going to happen. Most of the entrepreneurs graduating class of 2016 will …
Do New Overtime Rules Affect Your Small Biz?
Beginning in December, 2016, about 4.2 million more Americans will qualify for overtime pay under new rules from the US Department of Labor. If you own a small business and have full-time employees, there’s a good chance these rules apply to you. Currently, hourly workers, lower-wage earners, and non-managerial workers must be paid 1.5 times …
