If you have a startup business, it’s important to research to figure out what business methods and which business plans succeed. However, it is also important to understand where things may go wrong. With that in mind, here are the top five pitfalls for startup businesses: Idea Lightbulb - Sou...

Writing a business plan isn’t quite what you think. Many people go read web sites, buy books, or even buy software to assist them in writing business plans. The advice I’ve received from entrepreneurs is that you may as well skip the sites, toss the books and uninstall the software. Inst...

With so much audio available these days, its hard to choose and even harder to find the time to sift through it all to find exactly what you're looking for.  But there's good news - we have decided to do that for you!  We have compiled a list of 100 of our picks of the most informative small busi...

Are you making plans for your business, but are getting discouraged? One of the main ways that people get discouraged in business planning is when they have a hard time being realistic. Sometimes during business planning, a person needs to modify the ideal to incorporate their reality. There are a c...

Jessica Mah is an up and coming young entrepreneur that has only recently made the Inc Magazine's list for college entrepreneurs to watch.   We met on Twitter after I received a Tweet on her inspiring and humorous blog entry about Why 99% of the Entrepreneurs Fail.  (www.Jessicahmah.com/blog) G...

From the Kauffman Foundation : Given all the attention paid to business plans as precursor to business start-ups, you would think that there would be strong evidence that such plans lead to better business outcomes. Somewhat surprisingly, the linkages aren’t quite so clear. New research sponsored ...

Have you ever experienced something in nature that was so powerful and amazing that you felt puny in comparison? Last summer our family visited Niagara Falls. Niagara is such an awesome display of power that no amount of film - still or video — can capture its grandeur. To think men have been ...

(This is the third of a five-part series on accountability in the new world, the increasing need for fundamental accountability in small business as the business landscape breaks apart into cyber vs. physical. Part 1 was War of the Worlds , and Part 2 was Both Sides Now .) What if I told you I’...

One of the key ingredients of a small business success is the Business Plan. If you are planning to raise some funds through govt. agencies or through your bank the first thing they would need is a Business Plan. Apart from the requirements for funding your business, you also need the plan to define...

Una domanda che spesso viene posta è - Cosa devo fare per aprire una startup? - e questo post vuole raccogliere alcuni suggerimenti dettati dall’esperienza e non vuole essere assolutamente esaustivo. Non parlerò di questioni burocratiche perchè potete trovare le informazioni direttamente in...