If you’ve started your business, made it work and now are looking to expand to a larger scale, then it is likely that your strategy needs a boost. What do you need to think about...
Those of us who've been in the business world for some time know what it's like to lead without a clear vision. It can be challenging to lead a team or follow a leader when...
For entrepreneurs, July is a great time to assess how the year is shaping up, make adjustments that boost revenue or reduce expenses and take advantage of new opportunities. But how do you get started...
It is equally as important to systematize your business as it is to systematize your personal life. As humans, we are what we habitually do. Our success, our fulfillment and our day-to-day happiness is a...
One of the benefits of having a child is getting to go to animated movies without any guilt or questioning from contemporaries. “Oh … I would have much rather gone to that new (insert former SNL...
Millennials have a reputation for being incapable of sticking to one career. It has become a rallying cry for businesses: that they have to "put up" with bad prioritization and lack of focus from those ages...
Oh... the box. That "thing" we do. That "widget" we promote. That "idea" we present. Every company, every brand, every piece of media fits in a box. The shape, size, color, texture, smell (etc.) of the...
Ever been to Las Vegas' renown buffets? The piles of crab legs, the omelette station that can make you a 6-lb. omelette, endless waffles, the potential for at-your-table flambés? That my friends is a great analogy...
Let Zenovia Andrews help you 'maxout' your business potential! Zenovia Andrews knows the business strategies needed to increase income, maximize productivity, and overcome workplace hardships, and she wants to share her methods with other entrepreneurs...
What's not in your business plan? This article was originally posted on Entrepreneur.com Walking away from the comfy confines of the corporate world to start our own business was not only scary but we also...
Similar to our efforts on Twitter to claim the www.twitter.com/startupnation account name, we have now achieved something similar for www.facebook.com/startupnation. As I wrote a while ago here in my blog about the Twitter squatter who...
During my recent appearance on ABC News Now, I was lucky enough to be asked to provide some advice to fellow entrepreneurs who are growing businesses built around their passions. Click here or on the image...
Weird that I'd write a blog post about paying for content in a free content world, isn't it?! Weirder yet that StartupNation has for years on end been a STRICTLY free content site and hosts...
The love affair started about ten years ago. I was flipping through the channels on late night television and stumbled across one of Felix Trinidad’s early fights. He was an amazing athlete full of unwavering...
Among the constant influx of bad news I came across an article from Forbes singing the praises of emerging designers. While this article talks mainly about fashion designers, I believe it can translate to other...
I was reading an article on WashingtonPost.com about how social search startups have sprung up to fill in the gaps that the larger search engines like Google and Yahoo! have left open. It's an interesting...
We were let down when we went to TeaForte.com to research more about the product we'd recently been wowwed by - we thought we were on the cutting edge of discovering a hot new product....
Starting a business is hard. Yes, we believe that everyone should own their own business. Yes, it's actually easier than ever before as the internet has changed everything. The average cost to start a business...
It's a typical Monday morning in my world. I've been an entrepreneur for 21 years and I've found that Mondays are the most critical day of the week for me. Monday morning is when I...
It's Super Bowl week here in Detroit and StartupNation is heading to a special NFL players sanctioned event this afternoon. The Sloan brothers are giving a presentation to current and former NFL players and other...