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How to Bootstrap Your Side Hustle into a 6-Figure Business
How do you successfully bootstrap a side hustle into a six-figure business? Building a wildly profitable business is simpler than you might think. With the right business model and strategy, you can build a successful side hustle that doesn’t require any external funding and turn it into your full-time job. Here’s how I did it...
Avoiding Dumb Decisions in a Smart Tech World: Here’s When to Listen to Your Gut
Technology has become the backbone of how modern businesses function, with all types of organizations using tech applications to manage nearly every aspect of operations, from customer service to employee engagement. Whether using smart tech to enable communications, support security and privacy, enhance efficiency, aid employees or support operations, it’s no wonder startups rely on...
WJR Business Beat: Unicorns Founded By Women Quadrupled in 2021 (Episode 391)
On today's Business Beat, Jeff cheers the fact that women-led or founded startups reaching unicorn status quadrupled in 2021. But more work needs to be done, he says. Tune in to the Business Beat to find out some of the female-founded unicorns: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11...
How to Build and Fund a Startup as a Black Woman
Securing funding for a startup relies heavily on the connections you have among investors, as well as your ability to attract attention to your business. What happens when those investors are mostly upper-class white men, and you are not? It can be difficult for people of color, women, and working-class backgrounds to find investors for...
Four Ways to Transition from Employee to Entrepreneur
Are you ready to make the leap from an employee to entrepreneur? Maybe you have a great business idea, you hate the rat race of the corporate world, or you just want more professional freedom. Whatever the reason, you may be wondering how you can make the transition a little bit smoother. No matter how...
Blo Blow Dry Bar CEO Shares Advice for Aspiring Female Business Leaders
Women have a history of creating and inspiring change – from writers to politicians to business leaders. And many have founded businesses that began as a passion and have now grown to become industry trailblazers. I may not have thought I would become the founder and CEO of a global business, but I have led...
LIT Method’s Taylor Norris Shares Business Tips for Aspiring Women Entrepreneurs
Passion, vision, trust -- and being prepared for anything -- are the key drivers fueling women entrepreneurs. Every day is International Women’s Day in my mind. While it’s wonderful to have a holiday highlighting our contributions, for me it’s also a reminder of the women who’ve helped get me to this point — but whose...
Turning Passion into a Career: Entrepreneur Shares Lessons Learned
Unlike most entrepreneurs, my main goal as a young adult was not to eventually start a business – it was to go to the Olympics. I spent years competitively swimming. I had perfected the techniques of swimming and mastered operating under pressure and, after a successful competitive streak remaining undefeated in high school and qualifying...
Why I’m Leaving My Six-Figure Salary To Become An Entrepreneur
Like many people, I thought that I would be more fulfilled when I had achieved my career goals. But for me, it didn't quite work out that way. As a pharmacist, the eight years of education had been a long and difficult journey. When I finally graduated, I was proud of what I had accomplished....
Leaving Corporate to Be an Entrepreneur Empowers Women of Color
This modified excerpt is from THE FIRST, THE FEW, THE ONLY: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America by Deepa Purushothaman. Copyright ©2022 by the author and reprinted by permission of Harper Business. I have met more senior women of color in the past few years who have left companies to start their own endeavors...
Next Time You Think the Cards Are Stacked Against You, Think of Sarah Breedlove
The following is reprinted from "Platform: The Art and Science of Personal Branding" Copyright (c) 2019 by Cynthia Johnson. Published by Lorena Jones Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC. Sarah Breedlove is considered the first female self-made millionaire. At the time of her death, she was worth $600,000, which would be about $8...
Minority, Women Entrepreneurs Find More Opportunity in Franchise World
Barbara Brixton believed she had two strikes against her as she planned her business career: She is a woman and she is African-American. What’s more, she knew she wanted to do something in the food service industry. Her years as a teenager waiting tables at a local diner taught her the pleasure of serving people...
From 0 to 60 M.P.H.: How to Launch Your Brand Quickly and Effectively
One of the most challenging parts of starting a new business is building a brand. With so many hurdles and a to-do list a mile long, business owners need ways to save their valuable time and money. In this article, we discuss exactly what new brands need and what they don’t, how to stand out...
WJR Business Beat: Grants for Women Entrepreneurs (Episode 347)
On today's Business Beat, Jeff Sloan shares NerdWallet's list of grants specifically for women entrepreneurs. If you're a woman or if you know a woman who wants to start or grow their business, but is in need of capital to get it really rolling, check out these grant opportunities and others. Tune in to the...
5 Tips for Aspiring Mom Entrepreneurs to Turn Your Startup Dreams Into Reality
As a mom, your schedule tends to center around your kids more often than not. From school drop-offs and pickups to ballet recitals and lacrosse practices to checking homework and cooking dinner, it can feel as though you’ve lost some of your own interests and aspirations in the hectic shuffle of being a parent. And...
Top Small Business Grants for Women and Minorities
For an updated list of grant programs for women and minorities available in 2021, please click here. Funding a small business can be quite the undertaking, whether you’re starting a new venture for the first time or have decades of experience in your industry. Of course, securing capital is often necessary, but depending on what...
15 Grant Programs for Minority and Women Business Owners
Grant programs offering free money are hard to come by, which is why many entrepreneurs frequently end up applying for small business loans or try crowdfunding to start or expand their companies. However, many organizations have recently created grants in an effort to assist companies that have been negatively impacted by the pandemic. Some of...
How Venture Capitalist Diane Yoo Chooses Her Startup Investments
With so many entrepreneurs and startup ventures seeking investment opportunities, it’s crucial that venture capitalists (VCs) create a list of criteria they want their potential investments to meet. Of course, every VC dreams of investing in a business that can grow into a billion-dollar unicorn company, but these instances are few and far between. As...
WJR Business Beat: Capital Investment Surges Into Women-Led Companies (Episode 318)
On the Business Beat, Jeff talks about an influx of venture capital funding into businesses run by women. Tune in to the Business Beat, below, for details on what this surge represents and why it's important: Tune in to News/Talk 760 AM WJR weekday mornings at 7:11 a.m. for the WJR Business Beat....
5 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Starting A Business From Scratch
We often envision the traditional startupper as either the 24/7 working lonely wolf or the adventurer enjoying long-sought freedom and flexibility. But with the hardships, pitfalls, upswings and victories that come with starting your business, it’s usually never either-or. All entrepreneurs have lessons to share on starting a business. That being said, there are still...