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Building Community While Creating Your Company: The Value of Social Networks to Solopreneurs
In order to learn more about the entrepreneurial experience, The Office Providers conducted a survey of solopreneurs, with the intent of learning about their startup experience. After analyzing the results of the study, we dove...
The Importance of a Having a Business Mentor When Starting Up
As an entrepreneur, you have a fierce independent streak. It’s how you got your business off the ground in the first place. However, there will come a time where you hit a wall when it...
Mentoring is at the Heart of Entrepreneurship
Teaching and mentoring is at the heart of entrepreneurship. As business owners, we're teaching our prospects how our company can help solve their problem. With our team, we're teaching and communicating our vision and how...
5 Essential People to Have in Your Network as You Begin Your Entrepreneurial Journey
Succeeding as a new entrepreneur might seem more challenging now than ever before. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20 percent of new businesses don’t survive for more than a year, and nearly half...
How to Find the Right Business Mentor for You and Why It Matters
Throughout life, mentors provide support and valuable lessons. Nowhere is this truer than in the business world. Having someone to guide you through your career -- or part of it, at least -- can...
6 Reasons Why A Mentor is Essential to New Business Owners
Entrepreneurs know how exciting it is to bring a new idea to life. Yet, however great the idea, they may not know how to develop it into a working business model to generate revenue. That’s...
Why You Need a Business Mentor (and Where You Can Find One)
Mattie Mae Larson has a growing business in Hawaii turning trash into treasure. Her company, Upcycle Hawaii, creates wallets, zipper pouches, bookmarks, beach totes and a plethora of other products. All of Upcycle Hawaii’s items...
The Importance of Business Coaching: StartupNation Radio featuring Jon Dwoskin
On today's business coaching-themed episode of StartupNation, Jeff brings on Jon Dwoskin. Dwoskin is a business coach, author, speaker and podcaster who has coached everyone from solopreneurs to Fortune 500 companies. Tune in to the...
Why Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Ask for Help
The following is adapted from "Mr. Monkey and Me: A Real Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs" by Mike Smerklo. Copyright 2020 Lioncrest Publishing. In addition to getting the help you need and gaining perspective from your peers, there’s...
The Gen Z Guide to Starting a Business
Each generation leaves a significant mark on entrepreneurship. Gen Z is currently entering the working world in a time of great uncertainty amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Many Gen Zers are also watching businesses make significant...
How a Co-CEO Model Can Help You Build a Better Business
Do you know any CEOs who have enough time to meet all of their obligations, both personally and professionally? If so, I’d love to meet him or her! While there have been several high-profile breakups...
What to Look for in a Mentor and Where to Find One
When you’re a new entrepreneur launching a business, you may find yourself inexperienced in a few areas. The most effective way to overcome this deficit quickly is by finding a mentor — someone who has...
7 Steps to Starting a Side Hustle While Working Full Time
People with an entrepreneurial mindset often find themselves toying with an idea for a business that they can start up while still working their day job. Continuing to work your full-time gig while starting up...
7 Ways to Find a Mentor (and Why Having One is Vital to Your Startup’s Success)
When you start a new business, you’re going to want to find a good mentor. Mentors are as close to a business success hack that exists: they can provide validation, encouragement, networking opportunities, perspective, industry-specific...
4 Traits of Great Business Mentors
There is no sense in going it alone in the startup world. You can reap benefits from a great mentor throughout every stage of your career. That’s one of the most beautiful things about entrepreneurship—there...
Be Your Own Boss: I Started a Business and Here’s How You Can, Too
The prospect of starting your own business venture can procure all kinds of doubts: How will I get it off the ground? Is my idea good enough? Will people care about it? What happens if...
Entrepreneurship is About the Journey, Not Just the Destination
The following is excerpted from "The Entrepreneur's Framework: How Businesses Are Adapting in the New Economy," available at select bookstores and on Amazon, in paperback and for the Kindle. All proceeds from book sales are being...
StartupNation Originals: Jen Sincero Says Do This One Thing to Grow Your Business
In “You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth,” #1 New York Times best-selling author, success coach and motivational speaker, Jen Sincero, offers expert tips for unlocking your earning potential. In this...
How to Survive the Ups and Downs of Entrepreneurship
In the years of being the CEO of my company, I have certainly faced my fair share of ups and downs. Before my digital marketing agency was operating in a renovated penthouse with 12 employees,...
What Millennial Entrepreneurs Need to Know About Working with VCs and Angel Investors
Imagine that you’re a millennial and your startup has attracted the attention of a venture capital firm or an angel investor. They like what you have to offer (which is likely a business model that...