Posts for "Entrepreneurship"


Did You Enjoy Your Story?

From Life Without Pants
March 7, 2012 at 3:01 am
Last November, newly removed from the news of Steve Job’s passing, I asked a question to all of you. I asked, “What story are you telling?” And ever since, I’ve ... (more)

5 Accounting Mistakes That Can Sink a Business

From Young Entrepreneur - Small Business & Entrepreneur Community » Blog
March 6, 2012 at 7:00 am
Running a small business means that the owner will likely be forced to wear quite a few different hats of responsibilities.  Owners frequently find themselves inevitably in the ... (more)

How to Get Super Rich

From Young and Frugal
March 5, 2012 at 10:44 pm
Do you aspire to be rich? I don’t mean millionaire next door rich, I mean owning sports teams rich, 6 mansions, a fleet of ferraris, and no debt rich…even a miniature ... (more)

On Crowd-Funding Sites, Age Doesn’t Matter

From Young Entrepreneur - Small Business & Entrepreneur Community » Blog
March 5, 2012 at 7:00 am
By Daniel Bortz Websites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo can help young entrepreneurs lasso funding when parents and banks can’t. For many young, first-time entrepreneurs, ... (more)

How To: Grow Your Business with Pinterest

From Young Entrepreneur - Small Business & Entrepreneur Community » Blog
March 2, 2012 at 7:00 am
If you haven’t heard, Pinterest is all the rage among the savvy social media set and now it’s wending its way mainstream and helping entrepreneurs reach new audiences. If ... (more)

Would You Give Your Employees All Your Money?

From Alexandra Levit's Water Cooler Wisdom
March 1, 2012 at 8:00 am
Profit sharing is the new black. But one company, software training firm Agile Learning Labs, has taken it to the extreme. Agile’s six-member team is paid the same share ... (more)

3 Keys for Nurturing a Performance Driven Culture

From Young Entrepreneur - Small Business & Entrepreneur Community » Blog
March 1, 2012 at 7:00 am
Running a small business requires an owner and operator to fulfill so many roles, sometimes all of them. Though it may not be top-of mind it is excessively important to have a ... (more)

How to Manage Gender Discrimination in the Workplace

From Young Entrepreneur - Small Business & Entrepreneur Community » Blog
February 29, 2012 at 7:00 am
Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg recently stated at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland: “We reward men for being leaders, for being assertive, for taking risks, for being competitive; ... (more)

Babson scraps business plan competition

From BizPlanCompetitions
February 28, 2012 at 4:31 pm
After 28 years of running a traditional business plan competition, Babson College’s Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship has retooled and relaunched its undergraduate ... (more)

Making Your Small Business Seem Bigger

From Young Entrepreneur - Small Business & Entrepreneur Community » Blog
February 28, 2012 at 7:00 am
Nobody can deny that owning your own small business is a challenging and rewarding experience. Sometimes though, you can feel like a tiny grain of sand on a large beach, especially ... (more)

The Kama Sutra of Business

From Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel
February 28, 2012 at 6:30 am
Who knew that physical positions mattered so much when it comes to generating novel, useful and profitable business ideas? Your feet, your hands and your use of space directly ... (more)

5 Tips for Finding the Right Office Space

From Young Entrepreneur - Small Business & Entrepreneur Community » Blog
February 27, 2012 at 7:00 am
As an entrepreneur, the process of finding an office space for your young business can be completely overwhelming. When you know what you want, it’s too easy to jump over important ... (more)

Create Better Content Part 2: Before You Talk, Know Why You’re Talking

From Young Entrepreneur - Small Business & Entrepreneur Community » Blog
February 24, 2012 at 7:00 am
The inherent tension in marketing is that companies always want to talk about themselves and what their products or services can do. Everyone else, meanwhile, only wants to ... (more)

How to Make Your Brand Unforgettable

From Alexandra Levit's Water Cooler Wisdom
February 23, 2012 at 8:00 am
Bulbstorm is a marketing startup based in Phoenix with 25 employees that offers a social engagement platform that allows users to create interactive Web experiences. The company’s ... (more)

Cloud Computing: When Does it Make Sense for Your Business?

From Young Entrepreneur - Small Business & Entrepreneur Community » Blog
February 23, 2012 at 7:00 am
Never more will we worry about the crashing of a hard drive being the downfall of the very existence of our businesses. All of our hopes and dreams about technological security ... (more)

We’re All Entrepreneurs

From Life Without Pants
February 22, 2012 at 9:40 am
If you embrace that it’s never too late to start living a dream, you’re an entrepreneur.If you see opportunity when others see impossibility, you’re an entrepreneur. If ... (more)

Create Better Content Part 1: Before You Talk, Know Who Will Listen

From Young Entrepreneur - Small Business & Entrepreneur Community » Blog
February 22, 2012 at 7:00 am
This may seem like a simple idea, because it is. But many businesses launch a blog as a part of a miraculous online overall marketing strategy without figuring out the target market ... (more)

Going Solo – The True Costs of Starting Your Own Financial Planning Firm

From Good Financial Cents -Jeff Rose Certified Financial Planner and Investment Advisor, Carbondale, Illinois
February 21, 2012 at 10:38 am
Last year, I embarked on one of the most exciting business transitions of my life – I formed my own registered investment advisory firm.I get a lot of questions from advisors ... (more)

How Do You Know When It’s Time to Sell?

From Young Entrepreneur - Small Business & Entrepreneur Community » Blog
February 21, 2012 at 7:00 am
As an entrepreneur, the idea of selling your business is likely to cross your mind at some point. Building your own business out of thin air with your own blood, sweat and tears ... (more)

One Baby Step

From Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel
February 21, 2012 at 6:30 am
Is there one small item – something as low as $1 that your prospects could buy from you? Could it be a trial offer that costs just $1, and a payment of significantly more ... (more)

Inspiration and Failure

From Young and Frugal
February 21, 2012 at 6:00 am
A few weeks ago I stumbled on Stanford eCorner, a site, put up by the University where they put up podcasts of every entrepreneur and leader who speaks to their technology ventures ... (more)

Be the Captain of Your Company’s Ship: Changing Directions When Your Team is Sinking

From Young Entrepreneur - Small Business & Entrepreneur Community » Blog
February 20, 2012 at 7:00 am
Many businesses today are suffering from a terminal illness, and they likely don’t even know they’re sick. Because these companies are functioning well enough to get by, they ... (more)

Corporate America Lifestyle From An Entrepreneur’s Eye

From Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel
February 20, 2012 at 6:30 am
New shoes on your first day of work at an 800-acre corporate campus are a bad idea…unless you like blisters. That was my first lesson on day one as the new Division Vice President ... (more)

When is it Okay to Settle In?

From Life Without Pants
February 17, 2012 at 8:54 am
I’m a project person. What I mean by that is I always have to be and want to be working toward something. Starting a company, training for a marathon, buying a house. Personally ... (more)

Pitching in the Big Leagues: Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch

From Young Entrepreneur - Small Business & Entrepreneur Community » Blog
February 17, 2012 at 7:00 am
Knowing precisely what you’re going to say at the precise moment anybody asks, “So, what do you do?” will set you apart from most other businesspeople out there.  As a salesperson ... (more)