StartupNation

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StartupNation inspires, educates and consistently attracts entrepreneurs and small business owners from Main Street America who want to be their own bosses and live the American Dream.

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How to Be a Big CEO on Campus

Michael Simmons started his first business, Princeton WebSolutions, when he was 16. Then as a business school student at New York University, he created Extreme Entrepreneurship Education, which was incorporated after he graduated and now...

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February 21, 2007

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Business by Trade

Michael Frenkel was sitting in the midtown Manhattan office of a non-profit he hoped to snare as his second client when they dropped the bomb: His PR skills were just what they needed, but …...

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February 19, 2007

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Practicing Safe Text

Leave it to the cheeky Brits at Virgin Mobile to set up a Web site devoted to an emerging workplace hazard and call it PractiseSafeText. As billions of text messages are typed and sent each...

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February 9, 2007

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Simple Goals: Employee Buyout turns into a $50 million Business – Business Goal Setting Series

When Andrew Baca was named 2006 Minority Male Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Department of Commerce, he accepted it by saying, “I know the motivating power of ownership.” As president and CEO of...

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February 9, 2007

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Start Small, Grow Slowly: Keeping a Personal Touch in the Virtual Age – Business Goal Setting Series

Joanna Alberti banked on the hunch that even in this age of virtual communication, there’s still a market for smart, sophisticated, sassy – and real – greeting cards. She was right. With an initial investment...

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February 9, 2007

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Renovation Nation: Remodeling Startup 101

New home sales may be down, but remodeling continues to be very big business. In 2006, remodeling expenditures reached an estimated $233 billion, up 8.4 percent over 2005, according to the National Association of Home...

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February 8, 2007

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5 Steps to Integrating Your Small Business Technology

Your small business is growing fast. Your technology needs are changing just as rapidly. But starting over with a totally new system isn’t an option – who can afford the downtime? IT consultant Josh Carroll...

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January 29, 2007

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Alan Hall Cashes in on a Simple Plan With a Goal to Help Entrepreneurs – Business Goal Setting Series

Alan Hall says he took an “incredible risk” when he launched a company in his office garage in 1988. He had a wife and six kids, and one business had already bombed. The tech startup,...

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January 19, 2007

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Art-preneurship 101

Singer-songwriter Billy Joel long ago wrote most of the songs that make up the score for the hit touring musical Movin’ Out. But that didn’t stop famed choreographer Twyla Tharp from looking at Joel’s creative...

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January 18, 2007

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How to Comparison Shop for Analytics Software

You don’t have to be a geek, or lay out any money at all, to use Web analytics for a fatter bottom line. The somewhat imposing term refers to the tracking of exactly who uses...

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January 16, 2007

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Smart Partnering Can Fuel Explosive Growth in Your Startup

Within a month of partnering with superstar business consultant Jay Abraham, Chet Holmes International generated an additional $1 million in new revenue, $250,000 of which was pure profit. “Everyone won,” says Holmes, CEO of the...

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January 11, 2007

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Business Goal-Setting Makes Magic If You Know the Right Spell

Welcome ’007, we’ve been expecting you. The name is Sloan – Brothers Sloan. We’re keeping our eyes on you. Every startup – and every sophomore, junior or senior business looking to grow – should do...

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January 8, 2007

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His Startup Life

Most 12-year-olds don’t have goals that extend much beyond lunch. But Ben Casnocha was already setting goals for an entrepreneurial career in his preteens and now, at 18, is awaiting publication of his first book,...

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January 8, 2007

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Grape-by-Grape: Marianne Frantz Built her Business from the Cellar Up – Business Goal Setting Series

Cleveland probably isn’t the first place that leaps to mind when you think of wine education, and that’s just what Marianne Frantz banked on when she founded the Cleveland Wine School in 2002. With a...

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January 8, 2007

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The Freemium Model: Making Money With Giveaways

Want your startup to be a magnet for the eyes and ears of venture capitalists? Think about giving away your service or product. Free. No charge. And it’s more than a gimmick. You'll attract more...

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December 21, 2006

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Service Points

When Beth Schoenfeldt created Ladies Who Launch, providing resources and networking for women to get into business, projects and friendships, she had limited startup funds and didn’t want to pile up debt. So Schoenfeldt decided...

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December 7, 2006

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Business Ethics: Honesty is the Best Policy

Entrepreneurship is a fascinating journey with tough choices at every step. Many startups focus on only one goal – survival. Yet this early phase is when you establish the business ethics that will guide your...

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December 7, 2006

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Define What Makes You Tick � Your Personal Manifesto

Work as Freedom. Work as Family. Work as Fulfillment. That’s the Sloan brothers’ manifesto, the core of their life plan, and it’s the bedrock of every endeavor taken up by the founders of StartupNation. They...

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November 29, 2006

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Crowdsourcing

You have a great idea for a startup but need research, development and innovation to make it happen. Stumped? Don’t be. Just ask the crowd. With the Internet constantly making business easier and more accessible,...

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November 20, 2006

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Minority Hiring: The Do

Diversity is strength. Financial experts know that a diversified portfolio is the best way to build wealth, and business experts know that a diverse candidate pool is the best way to build a staff that...

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November 17, 2006