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Accountancy Advice for Start-up Businesses

Advice for Start-up Businesses: One Word - Accountant Starting a new business can be an extremely daunting task for anyone, whether you’re an experienced business player or simply embarking upon your first foray into the...

byChloe Hashemi

December 4, 2014

8 Things I’m Thankful for as a Business Owner

Being Thankful as a Business Owner As an entrepreneur, there’s quite a lot to be thankful for, if you think about it. Sure, sometimes you’d rather bury your head under a pillow than wake up...

byNellie Akalp

November 21, 2014

Clearing the Entrepreneurial Brain Fog

Starting a business is an exciting, yet overwhelming time for entrepreneurs. Our days our long, rivaled only by our ever-growing to-do-lists. One minute we’re accomplishing the impossible. The next, we’re feeling overwhelmed and unproductive. The...

byCrystal Ponti

July 14, 2014

Inspiration to StartUp: Should YOU Follow Your Passions?

This question has been in my heart and thoughts lately as my pet project, FitandFearLESS.tv, finally launches. As always, there are naysayers. Naysayers that question what a childrenswear designer could possibly know about the crazy...

byHeather Schuck

August 25, 2010

Alltop: A Site About Everything

I recently received an email from Guy Kawasaki about Nononina's new venture, Alltop, and specifically the Alltop Business Section. Alltop is a collection of stories from all the top sites on the web in a...

byNikole Gipps

February 21, 2008

Business Owners Need to Know When and How

I blogged earlier in the month about a contest that we ran at StartupNation.com and the overwhelmingly “I LOVE THIS CONTEST” reactions we received. I was surprised and surmised that the combination of competition and...

byJoel Welsh

February 27, 2007

Small business owners are contestants in the real American Idol

I never watched American Idol. But I'm sure many of you have. I want to know if the show has anything to teach us about running our businesses and our lives. Without ever watching, here...

byJoan Isabella

May 30, 2006

Business startup advice: Be attentive to your customer

Today is a special day for me. It's exactly six weeks since my hip replacement surgery. At six weeks you're allowed to do all kinds of things that you weren't allowed to do after surgery....

byJoel Welsh

January 30, 2006

Entrepreneurial Success is Where Bold & Aggressive Meets Preparedness

A week ago I posted a blog about an entrepreneur who appeared on the August 20 radio show, Emily Blumenthal, and how she was passionate in getting her product on QVC. I wrote, "You gotta'...

byJoel Welsh

August 29, 2005

Bob Plath invented what?

Do you know who Bob Plath is? Read to the end, and you will! All we have to say to start out is, "Thank You, Bob Plath! You are a savior!!!" Our week-long road trip...

byRich Sloan

March 20, 2005