Oh dear, it’s the end of a beautiful partnership: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have filed for divorce. If “Brangelina” can break up, what hope is there for you if you have a partner in your small business? While the two stars may go through a nasty divorce, you definitely want to avoid a gruesome …
How to Help Students Raise Money From the Crowd
Are your students looking for funding to get a great idea, product, or new venture off the ground? If you teach in the U.S., now there’s a new source of financing they can tap into—equity crowdfunding. It’s taken until May of this year for the regulations regarding equity crowdfunding—officially referred to as Regulation Crowdfunding—to go into …
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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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 …
9 Secrets to Get an Extra Hour a Day
If you run a small business, one thing you always need more of is time. There’s never enough time to deal with all those pesky customers, impossible employees, demanding vendors, new products in development, and all that red tape. Imagine if you had an extra hour every day. Well, I’ve got nine secrets of how …
Business Plan Competitions: 6 Tricks to Help Your Students Win
With so many business plan competitions to choose from, and an increasing amount of prize money to help launch new companies, it’s worthwhile to think about how to encourage your entrepreneurship students to enter these competitions, and how you can coach them through the process. Of course, to increase their odds of winning, students must …
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Startup Success
What’s the single most important determinant of a successful startup? “New ideas are necessary, but insufficient. What’s more difficult and even more important is execution.” “Teams win.” — John Doerr, partner of the powerhouse venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in the introduction to Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies Recently we’ve been …
Who’s Got the Best Small Business on TV?
Small business is the second most admired institution in America, yet it’s rare to see small business owners on television. Cops? Sure. Dysfunctional families? Plenty. Even aliens. Small business owners? Not so many. But if you look hard enough, you’ll find a few fun entrepreneurs when you kick back with some popcorn and turn on …