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Getting Your MBA? 10 Courses You Must Take to be an Entrepreneur!
Now we all know that nothing replaces real world experience. No course will truly show you what it takes or teach you every lesson you are going to encounter when starting a business. However if you are in school and getting an MBA the best thing you can do is take courses that will help [...]
Learning to Bend With the Wind While Starting a Business
One thing that I have learned over the past few years is that when you build your business you may have to adapt and reshape your idea. So many businesses have experienced this when starting out their business in the first stages and many of them don’t change a thing that is actually hurting them [...]
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11 Free Tools Every Young Entrepreneur Must Use!
Every young entrepreneur is strapped for cash yet looking for all the same products and services that big companies use. It is important to look professional yet also squeeze every penny when starting out. Here are 11 tools that will help you do both in the startup days of your venture. 1. Google Docs What’s [...]
Why Are So Many People in Their 20s Taking So Long to Grow Up?
A study done recently showed that today’s generation is taking longer then ever to reach what traditionally is defined as adulthood. An article in the New York Times covered this study and tried to figure out why this generation is growing up so slowly. The article shows some interesting facts ” The 20s are a [...]
Why Fear is Good as an Entrepreneur
What is Fear? It’s an emotion, a feeling, and although traditionally fear has been despised and fearlessness has been appreciated, I believe fear just like every other emotion has its own purpose in life and hence it should be equally respected. Napoleon Hill, in his 1934 book Think and Grow Rich names six basic fears [...]
First Time Entrepreneur? No Funding for You!
Many young entrepreneurs don’t realize how hard the funding process is. You hear all day about these companies getting tons of money and it seems like VC money is flying around everywhere. However you don’t hear about the 1000s of ideas that are shot down or never got that funding they were after. Business Insider [...]
Australia’s International Young Gun: An Interview with Jack Delosa
From almost losing it all in his first business to going on to build one of the fastest 50 growing ventures Australia saw in 2009, he’s the adrenalin junky who is now launching a movement that is developing entrepreneurs all over the world. Jack Delosa was named one the Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 in [...]
Who Starts More Businesses Gen Y or Their Parents?
A recent article in Newsweek shows a study that says older workers are more likely to start a business than the younger generation. Despite what most people hear and see on the news about how many young people are ruling the business world like Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook or the Google founders most businesses are [...]
Startup Hot Seat: Universities Finest vs Bucks Happening
Today we have Universities Finest and Bucks Happening profiled below. Both companies are making moves and cost virtually nothing to start. Universities Finest simply saw an opening and starting making calenders at campuses across the county. Bucks Happening is an extremely niche blog show casing everything happening in Bucks country Pennsylvania. Simple ideas that a [...]
Less Meetings, More Networking, More Teams: The Gen Y Workplace
A recent article in Reuters explains what some young professionals think the future workplace will look like. These ideas and changes can already be seen in many places today as younger workers look for flexibility rather than long-term career goals. According to one young professional “Kathrine Harper thinks she and her millennial colleagues will run [...]
Are You Protecting Your Ideas? Learn How to do it Right!
“[I]f knowledge is the means for creating value, then intellectual property is the means for extracting that value.” – Arena & Carreras, The Business of Intellectual Property, Oxford University Press (2008). Protecting intellectual property is a key business and legal concern that is often overlooked, for one reason or another, by many small businesses. By [...]
Pitching to Investors at Y Combinator Growing Rapidly
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal shows that the Y Combinator has grown tremendously in the 5 years since its launch. Y Combinator is a program for startup companies that provides them with resources, mentorship and connections for a small piece of equity. There are many similar programs that have popped up over [...]
Creating Leverage on a Shoestring Budget
Leverage. We’ve heard the word tossed around by gurus, moguls, and business experts, but they conveniently forget to tell us how to create that leverage and what to do if we don’t have millions or even thousands of dollars to create it. Today, I’m offering 3 simple ways to create leverage on a shoestring budget. [...]
Inspiring Teens to Find Happiness and Never Give Up in Life
Remember the movie “The Pursuit of Happiness”? Well if you don’t it is the one where Will Smith plays a homeless man who has a son and documents his struggles of trying to survive. However he goes on to be a leading broker at Bear Sterns and then eventually starts his own brokerage firm only [...]
7 Traits You Need if You Want to Be An Entrepreneur
This article was originally posted on garywhitehill.com As the global economy undergoes more changes (and it will continue to do so) even more people will choose to take the plunge into entrepreneurship. Changes to corporate mindsets, downsizing and other upheavals in the “safe” world of formal employment are forcing many to embrace entrepreneurship, and start [...]
