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New and seasoned entrepreneurs will disclose that building a business from the ground up isn’t for the faint of heart.Following the logistics and planning in building your business, you’re then left with the often deal-breaking task of ensuring that business is successful. For many aspiring entrepreneurs, this is the hard part—the wait for success....

Small business owners are struggling to make it when it comes to maintaining a work-life balance. Seventy-nine percent of small business owners continue to make growing their business a top priority, but many are making major sacrifices in the process—their personal time and their personal savings. According to data from the most recent American...

Be mindful of how you spend your time, foster your confidence and definitely watch that bottom line during the first few years of your new business....

Paying attention to cash flow, competition and leadership quality are just a few things that can save your company in trying times....

This article originally appeared on businesscollective.com.Launching a business is both one of the toughest and most rewarding experiences an entrepreneur will encounter. For that reason, many entrepreneurs join forces with a partner in order to defray costs, build creativity, and keep their sanity. Starting a business with a partner is like g...

There's always something else to be done and more you'd like to achieve, so how do you keep your day running efficiently without being overrun by the demands on your time?...

Being busy has, unfortunately, become a way of life. Sometimes, it seems we are constantly rushing from one thing to the next, always trying to fit as much as we can into our day without losing our minds. We have jobs, family, homes and friends to juggle, and 24 hours in the day can go […]...

Comedian Sheryl Underwood has been tickling our funny bones since she first appeared on Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam, BET’s Comic View, and The Steve Harvey Morning Show, and on the big screen as Catfish Rita in Beauty Shop. Her career-trek represents a journey of breaking glass ceilings across multiple professional mediums with no...

Most people have heard the story that many startups will fail in the first five years, as much as 80%. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, About half of all new establishments survive five years or more and about one-third survive 10 years or more. The probability of survival increases with a firm’s age. What’s more, survival rates have c...

The chances of receiving funding is very slim, so if you are serious you are going to have to dip into your own pockets....