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Planning on Starting up in the New Year? Here’s What You Can Learn From the Resilient Entrepreneurs of 2020

As an aspiring entrepreneur, you might wonder what it’s like to start a business after a year marked by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Maybe you’re a little nervous or even second-guessing plans to fully open...

byDeborah Sweeney

December 16, 2020

This Mother-Daughter Duo Offers Lessons in Entrepreneurship After Building Their Own Successful Startup

There’s so much great advice out there on how to start a business, but you never really know what’s real until you do it. I not only dove in head first, but I also did...

byChessa Eskandanian-Yee

August 12, 2019

How This Dance Company Choreographs Cash Flow with Credit

Lindsey Dinneen is the owner of VidaDance Studio in Leawood, Kansas. With students ranging in age from 2 to 73, Dinneen’s company aims to bring the joy of dance into the lives of all members...

byNav

July 2, 2019

The Power of Being an Entrepreneur Without a Paycheck

If you have small or nonexistent income, you are probably a new entrepreneur still in shock over the loss of your paycheck, or your business has launched but is in lean times. Or, perhaps you’ve established...

byStephanie Breedlove

June 5, 2019

Former Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation President and CEO on 5 Things Every Aspiring Entrepreneur Should Know

The following is excerpted from "Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do" by Carl Schramm. Copyright © 2018 by Carl Schramm. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Good...

byCarl Schramm

May 22, 2018

Why I Quit My Job to Launch a Startup, Failed and Would Do it All Again

This isn’t an overnight success story, this is a real story. It was a mid-September afternoon in 2016. There I was, on the top floor of some swanky office, peering through floor to ceiling windows...

byLiam Smith

March 5, 2018

Going for Gold: Small Business Lessons From Olympians-Turned Entrepreneurs

The journey to PyeongChang for the 2018 Olympic Games is a winding one for top athletes — and a familiar path to anybody who has launched a business. Rigorous training, long hours and lots of sacrifices...

byJennifer Friedman

February 8, 2018

7 Mistakes These Successful Entrepreneurs Will Never Make Again

No one ever made it to the top without encountering challenges or setbacks along the way. Fail enough times and you’ll eventually succeed. These seven entrepreneurs share the biggest mistakes from their past, and how...

byThe Oracles

January 17, 2018

5 Growth Lessons We Learned From the Last 5 Years in Business

One thousand, eight hundred and twenty five. That’s about how many days there are in the span of five years — and only 50 percent of small businesses will make it to celebrate that anniversary....

byMyCorporation

January 12, 2018

Why it Never Pays to Be a Jackass: In Business and Life [Opinion]

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this column are the author's own, and do not reflect the viewpoints of StartupNation Media Group, LLC. Lessons in how to have lasting impact While we might be living in...

byMatt Villano

August 24, 2017