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8 Steps to Surviving a Family Small Biz
Love your sister and want to start a business with her? Or have your adult kids enter your small business? How about asking your parents to help with your startup? Running a business with family members can be great – or not. It can present some sticky situations – just ask the Trumps. Before you …
Sex Sells. Duh.
Looking for a small business start-up idea? You might want to look to the bedroom. Because, and I know this may shock you, sex sells. Romance has been around since, well, Adam and Eve. Businesses related to romance continue to do well and are increasingly mainstream. This past Valentine’s Day, even Burger King got in …
Should Your Students Emulate Elon Musk?
In the summer of 2016, 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 a sexy, safe, and desirous electric car, Musk already had a lot on his plate: building a massive electric battery plant in Nevada, buying the solar-panel company SolarCity and, oh …
Clinton’s Plan to Help Small Businesses
What would you want your next President to do for your small business? On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton announced how she, as President, would help small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs in unveiling her plan dealing with a broad range of small business concerns. Clinton’s announcement shows she does her homework. Her small business proposals aren’t going …
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. …
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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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 …
