topic: Plan Your Business
5 Steps to Successful Entrepreneurship
22 Sep 2016
Although I’ve been an entrepreneur for over 10 years, the company I co-founded is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year. It hasn’t all been smooth sailing, though. We’ve learned from our...Read More
Incentives for Women-Owned Businesses
20 Sep 2016
“This is a man’s, a man’s, a man’s world,” sang soul musician James Brown in 1966. This observation is still disturbingly relevant today—especially through an economic lens. To help reverse...Read More
9 Tips for Women Who Want to Start a Business
10 Sep 2016
Women entrepreneurs have become a strong force in today’s business world. Across the globe, many leading companies are now led by female entrepreneurs, many of whom already paved the way...Read More
Female Entrepreneurs and the Fight for Funding
30 Aug 2016
“If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere.” New York has always been attractive to the self-made man, but it could now be the premier destination for the...Read More
How to Start Your Own Business: A Step-by-Step Guide
28 Aug 2016
Starting your own business can be a great way to maximize your revenue, decide your own working hours and choose your co-workers. As dreamy as this sounds to start your...Read More
The Secret to Entrepreneurial Success: Speed Innovation and Learning as You Go
19 Aug 2016
There are so many things to think about when you’re starting a business, including your company name, your target audience, how you’re going to fund it and pay yourself –...Read More
6 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Develop Business Skills
15 Aug 2016
Many business owners realize their skills deficit after launching their startup, then quickly scrambled to bridge the gap. Whether you’re preparing to start a new company or you want to...Read More
3 Phase Gates to Move Your Product or Service to Market
12 Aug 2016
At some point along the journey, most entrepreneurs are faced with what may seem like the final impossibility – the one roadblock that has the potential to prevent them from...Read More
Going for Gold: Small Business Lessons From Olympians-Turned Entrepreneurs
08 Aug 2016
The journey to Rio for the 2016 Olympic Games is a winding one for top athletes — and a familiar path to anybody who has launched a business. Rigorous training, long...Read More
5 Tips for Starting a Business
07 Aug 2016
Starting a business can be very difficult, especially since more than 50 percent of UK startups fail within their first year. In our guide to starting a business, we provide...Read More
A Step-by-Step Guide to Get Some Entrepreneurial Spirit Into Your Life
24 Jul 2016
By Lianne Taylor, Anglia Ruskin University When confronted by life, we are each bound within the scope and the limits of the perspectives we have adopted and nurtured over our lives....Read More
7 Lessons for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
22 Jul 2016
Thinking of quitting your job to chase your dreams of entrepreneurship? It’s often a quandary for many young professionals who hold such aspirations. Weighing the pros and cons of self-employment seems...Read More
Creating a Pitch Deck: Simplify Your Message
01 Jul 2016
Can you fully explain your company in one sentence? If you can’t, you might want to think long and hard about either simplifying your message or your business model before...Read More
5 Simple and Free Tools to Build Your Startup from Scratch
23 Jun 2016
Launching a startup can take a lot of time, effort and money, but building one from scratch takes even more. It takes time for people to notice and respond to...Read More
Common Entrepreneurial Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
21 Jun 2016
You have a brilliant idea, found a dream partner to build your startup with, are getting a lot of excited users to sign up and venture capitalists are already showing...Read More
Your Business Needs a (Nontraditional) Plan
13 Jun 2016
The traditional business plan has created the wrong expectations of a CEO at a small business, and there’s a revolution afoot in the way elite MBA programs and Silicon Valley...Read More
