General Advice
Take Advantage of Electronic Communication
Collectors are starting to use electronic communications to locate debtors or past-due customers. Many people have public ...
Collectors are starting to use electronic communications to locate debtors or past-due customers. Many people have public ...
Cash Shy? Try Bootstrapping
I define bootstrapping as "pursuing success with limited resources and with the help of others." By limited resources ...
I define bootstrapping as "pursuing success with limited resources and with the help of others." By limited resources ...
Save Money by Renegotiating Your Lease
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Entrepreneur.com - Your business isn’t going to grow on its own. If you’re ready to expand, but you’re not sure where to start or how to best use your resources, consider ...
• How Do Investors Get Paid?
Entrepreneur.com - Startups planning to raise venture capital in these turbulent times should pay attention to the way investors get paid during bear markets. Compensation incentives drive the ...
• Don't Fall Victim to the Triangle of Entrepreneurial Finance
Entrepreneur.com - As an entrepreneur you will make hundreds to thousands of operational decisions in setting up an infrastructure and producing your product or service. All decisions that involve ...
• Banks Eye Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur.com - The economy might be on life support, but news about the death of business loans isn't telling the whole story. Some institutions, in fact, are doubling down when it comes to ...
• Overhaul in the Offing at SBA
Entrepreneur.com - Having positioned himself as a small-business ally on the campaign trail, it didn't take long for President Barack Obama to take aim at the embattled SBA. As far as ...
• Where the Money is
Entrepreneur.com - Raising money to finance a business startup is difficult; but raising money to finance a business startup during a recession is nearly impossible. I started a business shortly ...
• A Bad Economy May Benefit Franchises
Entrepreneur.com - With all the negativity making headlines these days, it's difficult sometimes to maintain perspective. Foreclosures at record highs. Nearly a trillion dollars in bailouts. The ...
• SBA at a Crossroads
Entrepreneur.com - Talk to people inside the SBA and they’ll say the agency is poised to emerge from several trying years of restructuring a stronger, business-friendlier organization. ...
• Do Rising Costs Point to Domestic Manufacturing?
Entrepreneur.com - In an economy that looks gloomier by the day, a couple of important questions spring to mind: How, specifically, are entrepreneurs affected? What are the most important things to ...
• Economic Crises Call for Better Marketing Plans
Entrepreneur.com - As I write this, uncertainty crashes all around us like a violent hurricane. Now is the time to bolster your sales and marketing plans and get ready for disaster business ...
• How to Make a Million
Entrepreneur.com - So you want to be a millionaire. You dream of going from rags to riches with money to spare. You brainstorm ideas, searching for the one that's going to catapult you to ...
• 4 Steps to Assessing Your Product's Profit Potential
Entrepreneur.com - I've talked to a lot of people who have found a promising market by coming up with a product or service that would solve a problem. But they're paralyzed about taking the ...
• Stretch Your Travel Dollar
Entrepreneur.com - The airline industry is struggling--no secret there. Rising fuel costs have raised ticket prices to uncomfortable levels, for travelers and airlines. In their battle to keep ...
• It's Your Business
Entrepreneur.com - Despite its reputation as a top-flight steakhouse chain, New York City-based Smith & Wollensky's stock floundered after the company went public following Sept. 11. So last ...
• Buyer's Market
Entrepreneur.com - With all the talk going on about a recession, you might think that now would be a lousy time to buy another company. But when organic growth stagnates, companies typically find ...
• The Going Rate
Entrepreneur.com - Question: Now that interest rates have come down, do you think it makes sense to refinance the mortgage that we took out to buy our company's building? We're currently ...
• Business Credit Cards Simplify Record Keeping
Entrepreneur.com - It's true that careless use of credit cards can put you out of business faster than you can swipe your card through the reader. When used effectively, however, a ...
• Something to Bank On
Entrepreneur.com - If lenders are giving business borrowers the cold shoulder, Renee Wood, founder of The Comfort Company, hasn't felt the chill. When Wood, 43, needed a loan to purchase a new ...
• Adventure Capital
Entrepreneur.com - Elie Ashery had already seen two of his dreams come true. He raised $12 million in venture capital for a dotcom and used the proceeds from its sale to buy his first house. Later, ...
• What's My Company Worth?
Entrepreneur.com - David Lindsay, 38, is the CEO of Confluentia Group, a New York City startup business analysis consulting firm in the financial services sector. Like the CEOs of many other young ...