Displaying items by tag: Startup Basics

When starting up, it helps to know your strengths. Here's how to parse them out....

Need help trying to figure out if that great idea you're passionate about could become a successful business? Here's how to evaluate a potential winner....

If you're planning to start a business, you first need to figure out a winning concept. Consider these strategies to help get your creative juices flowing....

To build the most successful small business in the world, it takes 10 key principles.Every small business owner wants to succeed. Why put your blood, sweat, and tears into launching a new venture, only to watch it fail? And yet, many of them do. Over the years, I have worked with hundreds of small business owners and I have learned that in order...

Three tips to help you find new business opportunities in unexpected places....

Launching a company isn't an easy path. Get your bearings before you travel the start-up road.Seems like everywhere you read, students are dropping out of college or quickly exiting business school to start their own company. Start-ups are like the gold rush of our era. While the enthusiasm is commendable, would be start-up CEOs should consider a...

You have no excuse not to see these potential hurdles coming--so don't let them trip you up.Failure--and the importance of failing quickly and often--is a trendy topic. Learning how to overcome obstacles and setbacks is in fact incredibly important, but at the same time failure can also be incredibly painful, both financially and emotionally.Lesson...

Starting up for the first time can be a nerve-wracking experience. Here's how to soothe your fears and boost your odds for success....

Money changes everything, doesn't it? Keep the cash flowing by avoiding the biggest financial mistakes you could make in your company's early years.Cash flow is the lifeblood of small business. If you run out of cash before you can create a following and steady income, it's game over. Too many promising businesses end up forgotten on the...

Conventional wisdom suggests you must be bold and outgoing to be successful. Here's why the stereotype doesn't hold up.Stereotypes can be devastating, especially when you apply them to yourself. One of the most persistent within entrepreneurship is that founders must be true extroverts: gregarious, outgoing, and always ready to press the flesh. If...