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The Secret to Changing Your Outlook
Call me a heretic, but I just don't think we're collectively circling the drain. I know it makes for mundane water ...
Call me a heretic, but I just don't think we're collectively circling the drain. I know it makes for mundane water ...
Selling Your College Business
Have you ever dreamed of selling your college startup for millions and sailing off into the sunset? At some point, every ...
Have you ever dreamed of selling your college startup for millions and sailing off into the sunset? At some point, every ...
Running a Charity Like You Run a Business
The Smile Train, founded in 1999 by Brian Mullaney, 49, and Charles Wang, 64, operates a little differently than your average ...
The Smile Train, founded in 1999 by Brian Mullaney, 49, and Charles Wang, 64, operates a little differently than your average ...
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Entrepreneur.com - The sole proprietorship is the simplest business form under which one can operate a business. The sole proprietorship is not a legal entity. It simply refers to a natural person ...
• 6 Components of a Bootstrap Business Plan
Entrepreneur.com - Now's the time for bootstrapping--as in starting a business without outside investors. Despite the big downturn, and a tougher time finding investors, there are still ...
• GolfTEC Drives Franchisees' Success
Entrepreneur.com - In the mid-1990s, emerging technologies such as personal computers, e-mail and cell phones were changing the way people accessed and shared information, opening the door to a new ...
• Grow Your Power, Boost Your Influence
Entrepreneur.com - Do you want to be more influential and powerful? Do you want your employees, your customers and your vendors to listen to what you have to say and do what you want them to do? We ...
• Build a Billion From the Ground Up
Entrepreneur.com - Harry E. Figgie Jr. is famous for taking over the struggling $23 million sprinkler company Automatic Sprinkler Corp. of American in 1963 and turning it into the $1.3 billion ...
• Brown is the New Green
Entrepreneur.com - Five years ago, Spencer Brown decided he was tired of wasting his money on cardboard boxes. More important, he was fed up with the double whammy of cutting down trees to create a ...
• 7 Steps to the Perfect Marketing Plan
Entrepreneur.com - One of the most powerful strategic planning tools your business can possess is a marketing plan. I'm not referring to an academic exercise found in college marketing ...
• Breaking Business Models
Entrepreneur.com - Armed with technology and unbridled ambition, the new crop of college entrepreneurs isn't afraid to challenge the status quo and engage in a David vs. Goliath battle. By ...
• The CORE Assessment
Entrepreneur.com - Carol A. Brittain has more than 20 years of experience specializing in business and corporate law. She holds an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management, ranked No. 1 in ...
• Can Coaching Help Your Business?
Entrepreneur.com - The economy is in the tank right now, and managing costs will be a key ingredient to companies' survival and growth. And even though an AON 2008 consulting survey discovered ...
• A Case Study: Real-Life Business Planning
Entrepreneur.com - I'm writing this the day after a two-day planning meeting for Palo Alto Software. It was the start of the company's annual planning cycle, plus a refresher for changed ...
• In Beverage Industry, Sustainability Sells
Entrepreneur.com - Still looking for that green entrepreneurial opportunity? How about finding inspiration in the next coffee or soft drink you buy? The U.S. beverage industry creates $200 billion ...
• What You Can Learn From...
Entrepreneur.com - Each year, a new crop of business books dispenses tips on how to take your enterprise to the next level. But business inspiration can be found in more unexpected places, too: in ...
• Measure Your Business Plan Results
Entrepreneur.com - Plans are wrong, but nonetheless vital. There's a paradox for you. It's a simple statement, one that I hope is somewhat surprising coming from a business planning expert; ...
• Unstoppable Moms
Entrepreneur.com - What would you do if years into your business, you found out you needed to change your business name because of a possible trademark infringement? This happened to Gwen Willhite, ...
• Top 5 Mistakes in Forming Your Corporation
Entrepreneur.com - In my September column , we looked at mistakes to avoid when forming a partnership. Many entrepreneurs, however, aren't comfortable in remaining a sole entity and ...
• 3 Weeks to Startup
Entrepreneur.com - Are you looking for the fast track to starting your business? You want to make sure you hit all the high points but don't get bogged down in too many fine points that lead you ...
• The Best Things in Life are Free
Entrepreneur.com - Online marketing campaign: freeLong-Distance calling: freeRunning your small business for next to nothing: priceless . Over the decades--heck, even centuries--philosophers, ...
• 4 Big Fat Business Plan Lies
Entrepreneur.com - With the economy spiraling downward, now is the worst possible time to neglect business planning. People do it because they lose track of the fundamentals. They also fall prey to ...
• Sustainability Emerges as a Business Model
Entrepreneur.com - When pondering the question "how many ex-environmentalists do you know?" Village Associates real estate agent Ben Olsen's answer is immediate. "The answer is ...