Why should you care about branding? Because these days, everyone will Google you before they visit your restaurant, buy your products, hire you to perform a service, loan money to you or invest capital in your new or existing venture. Any time you interact with people — online or off — your brand will matter…
Projects go wrong for many reasons. One of the big ones is when you don’t arrive at an accurate projection and find that by the end of the project, you’re very late and way over budget. That’s not a good feeling for any manager.
Bottom-up estimating allows you to break a project into its parts, examine each part to come up with a detailed estimate, and then…
A credit limit is the total amount of money that can be charged to a credit card, whether in the form of purchases, interest charges or fees. Every credit card comes with its own credit limit, and lenders generally determine these limits based on credit scores and other indicators of creditworthiness. Your credit limit might be $500, $1,000, $5,000 or more — but no…
Many people view venture capital (VC) financing as an avenue to turn an idea into a business. In reality, your idea will have already turned into a business and hit several benchmarks before you can raise venture capital.
You need to develop a business model to sell your...
Ah, the Wild West of entrepreneurship. It’s glamorous. It’s exciting. It’s been written about in books and portrayed on the big screen. There are stories of billionaires getting started by working out of a garage, stories that tempt one to think, “Why can’t that be me?”…
To start us off, let us first understand the meaning of a chatbot. A chatbot is a tool that employs Artificial Intelligence to simulate a conversation with a human user through messaging platforms, websites or a mobile application. Chatbots are increasing in popularity day after day. More businesses are now investing...
Writing a business plan for your small business should be one of the first steps you take when a business idea pops into your head. This is how you’ll discover whether your idea can actually be a profitable business. Lenders will want to know the business you plan on starting will...