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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How to Fail With 100,000 Users and Millions of Investment
The War Room on Business Insider ran a story on how the startup GoCrossCampus.com received millions of funding and tons of users but still failed. The founders admitted they made some key mistakes or as they said “We f*cked this up ourselves.” It goes to show that there is much more to running a business [...]
Entrepreneur Tip: Be Ready to Change and Fast!
This article was originally posted on garywhitehill.com Entrepreneurship is different from most other career paths for one major reason. Change happens and fast! Of course you probably think you are adaptable but to truly succeed as an entrepreneur you will need to be even faster. Here are the reasons why, as well as a few [...]
15 Ways to Use Your 9-5 Job to Start a Business
Editors Note: This article and its suggestions were meant to come across as observations of what goes on in the business world. All of the points were simply taken from actual conversations with entrepreneurs and business people. We apologize that it has come across as tips and advice for everyone to follow. Every young entrepreneur [...]
15 Email Marketing Solutions to Acquire and Retain Your Customers
Email marketing is a great way to engage, retain and leverage your customers. Anyone from a small business to a large corporation can utilize email marketing to improve their business. There are many options out there today so it is important that you find the right one for your business. A well thought out campaign [...]
Entrepreneurial Leadership Will Be the Basis for Significant Job Creation
Earnings season is upon us once more, with CEOs beaming over their latest earnings reports, yet cowering when the inevitable question about domestic hiring is pressed upon them. Growth, we are told, will come from international efforts and coincidentally, the majority of hiring will be done overseas as well. Those prognostications do not bode well [...]
Five Guerrilla Marketing Weapons That Helped Increase My Business Without Spending Any Money
The end of 2009 and into 2010 was proving to be a very difficult year for my company, Taz Solutions, Inc. a web marketing, strategy, PR, and design firm. I discovered that the old ways of doing business were just not working in the “new economy. ” I was used to charging $5000 or more [...]
The Price to Pay for Credit Card Processing: What is Best for Your Startup?
Credit card processing is unnecessarily complicated, evident by most business owners’ frustration with processors and dealing with them. Luckily, a basic understanding of the different price structures processors use can help your business get the best deal and keep more of your hard earned money: There are three (basic) types of pricing structures: Tiered Pricing-Transactions [...]
Generation Y Rejects the Old and Creates the New
The world seems to be a depressing place as of late. Headlines all across the world scream about earthquakes, oil spills, famine, and political unrest. Being surrounded by so much negativity can bring a person down easily, but this generation is different. Generation Y is often called out by their elders, labeled as lazy, spoiled, [...]
Top 10 Cities for Young Entrepreneurs in 2010
Recently Under30CEO ran a poll to find out what the top cities for young entrepreneurs were in the United States. Voters were asked to think about resources, schools, events, climate, and the social scene that a young entrepreneur looks for. The results are in and below we have put together the top 10 cities for [...]
3 Simple Rules for Selling in the New Economy
Every entrepreneur knows that the key to a thriving business is sales. Without it, cash flow dries up, checks turn to rubber, and heads roll. With it, few things are impossible. The challenge for most entrepreneurs is understanding how to sell what they offer. Throughout the years, the sales gurus of our parents’ generation have [...]
9 Truths for Leaders to Learn—and Live By
Fake it—or make it. Today, it’s my mantra. As a CEO, I am passionate about organizational authenticity—how companies live out their promises to stakeholders—and I have a message for executives and entrepreneurs rebooting their businesses on the heels of the Great Recession: Better make it real. For the first time in recent history, trust and [...]
