Displaying items by tag: Entrepreneurship

It takes more than a great idea to launch a successful business. Here are five qualities to have under your belt....

A new study shows that ex-entrepreneurs can struggle to find jobs if they decide to return to regular employment. Really employers? Really?You’ve probably heard about employers’ bias against the long-term unemployed and the catch-22 it creates -- those most in need of work, need to have a job to find a job. How frustrating must that be?...

When the work is hard and the hours are long, these are the reasons founders keep doing what they do.I recently asked fellow members of the Young Entrepreneur Council--an invite-only organization made up of the world's most successful young entrepreneurs--just what it is that makes them work so hard. Money? Success? Autonomy? Or do entrepreneurs...

Five parenting tips to help your kids become leaders and entrepreneurs....

You can't choose a path to entrepreneurship - it chooses you. Here are three signs that it's time to leave your corporate job and start chasing your dream.Ambitious people usually don't work well under corporate confines. If you're an entrepreneur at heart your passion will, eventually, lead you elsewhere.Before starting Avondale, we each had...

Downtown Pittsburgh hosted the Allegheny Conference on Community Development where nearly 600 businesses and political leaders gathered to hear the organization’s annual progress report, last week.This is the first year of the Conference’s new 2012 – 14 agenda, which guides the organization’s work. It’s organized into three strategic priorities (En...

Whipped Body Goods is the brainchild of Lauren Doggett, a 24-year-old self-described “Ohio girl” who’s turned her background of culinary arts into a line of luxury body, hair and facial scalp butters and crèmes. With the help of her intern Maxine, Lauren has created a very successful handcrafted product that’s been praised for its all natural ingre...

Howard University’s School of Business has always offered courses in starting, running and managing a company. In recent years, faculty and administrators realized that business students were no longer the only ones actively seeking business training.“Our students have always been interested in entrepreneurship, but I feel like it’s really exp...

If you don't have these four traits, maybe you weren't born to change the world after all.People often wonder how the kid who rarely talked or wasn't particularly popular in class went on to become a start-up genius. What was it about that person that helped him or her blossom into an icon of entrepreneurship? And how can you make sure you have...

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