5 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in the First Year (and How to Avoid Them)
No matter whose statistics you look at, the longevity numbers for business startups are grim. The first few…
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6 Tips to Help Find Empowerment Through Embracing Failure
Launching a business is an exciting, and challenging, prospect. Unfortunately, there will always be times at which you…
Why Startups Fail: A Harvard Business School Professor’s Letter to a First-Time Founder
The following is adapted from the book “Why Startups Fail,” by Tom Eisenmann. Dear Founder: Congratulations for taking…
Want to Start a Lower-Risk Business? Become a Franchisee
The day I became a franchisor, the ceiling collapsed. Literally. I was at Kidville headquarters in New York…
How to Benefit From Your Fear of Entrepreneurial Failure
Failure. It’s a loaded word in the startup world. Eric Ries told founders to fail fast in his quintessential…
Top 5 Reasons Why Startups Fail (and How You Can Avoid the Same Mistakes)
It goes without saying that every entrepreneur wants their startup to succeed. While starting a business, your passion…
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurs
If you need capital to get your business started, you might turn to crowdfunding to raise those funds.…
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.…
Your Business May Have Failed, But You Can Still Prevail
Upper Street was a dream for any entrepreneur. The bespoke shoe label, started in 2010 by Julia Elliott…
8 Fears All New Entrepreneurs Must Understand and Overcome
Are you familiar with the story of Zeno of Cyprus? Here’s a quick synopsis: a merchant named Zeno…
Success After Failure: How These 5 Entrepreneurs Bounced Back
Any successful person will tell you about a life-defining or breakdown moment of failure from their past that…
ViSalus CEO Ryan Blair Advises Pay Attention to Your Time… Line [Book Excerpt]
The following excerpt is adapted from “Rock Bottom to Rock Star: Lessons from the Business School of Hard…
Learn How to Fail Fast in Order to Succeed
The following excerpt was selected exclusively for StartupNation readers from “Daring & Disruptive” by Lisa Messenger. Excerpted with permission by North…
How to Embrace Failure and Succeed [Book Excerpt]
We are living through a global entrepreneurial renaissance. Entrepreneurs are everywhere and thanks to the Internet, as well…