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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 your doors (physical or virtual) in 2021. In a year as unprecedented as 2020, entrepreneurs showed the world the kind...
The 7 Business Lessons We’ve Learned in 7 Years
Fewer than 50 percent of businesses make it to their fifth year. That means that half of all companies have a short lifespan, despite their efforts to build something successful long-term. The interior design space is particularly competitive: predictions state that by 2026, the market will be worth $270,410 million, and in turn, a whole...
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 so with my mother, Katherine Eskandanian-Yee. Together, we learned real-life lessons in entrepreneurship by starting our company, LeaderEQ. The entire...
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 of her community. VidaDance offers ballet, jazz, tap, modern, hip-hop and dance fitness classes. In business for three years, Dinneen...
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 your idea but need to tighten up to grow. You are not alone, as most entrepreneurs have been here. Independent...
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 companies don’t happen overnight Of course, because of the media-driven narrative of entrepreneurial success, many entrepreneurs dream of starting an...
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 over the autumn skyline. I’d gotten a promotion a few weeks before, my second in just four years; someone up...
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 all are in the mix as athletes devote their lives to achieving Olympic gold. Once their competitive athletic years are...
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 their learning experiences can shape who you are today. 1. I didn’t experiment enough My biggest failures came from when...
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. Fortunately, our business is well over five years old, and while we learn so much every year, the past five...
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 an age of sanctioned jackass leadership, it rarely works out for those of us who want to stand for greatness...