If you’re a business owner and you’re surviving — congratulations, you’re one of the few.
As of mid-August 2020, about 98,000 small businesses in the US have closed permanently, according to data compiled by Yelp…
Entrepreneurs face a constant money challenge. From just making payroll to buying the next big piece of equipment, it’s hard to ever really feel secure with how much cash you have.
Some side hustle businesses could be started with literally no money. But any business that requires your full focus and provides a good living…
The average venture capital firm screens 350 companies and makes only four investments in any given year. A recent study from the Journal of Financial Economics surveyed 885 institutional venture capitalists and 681 firms on how they make their investment decisions. The results showed that when selecting investments, VCs focus more on the management...
Wouldn’t it be nice to hope for funding and have it magically appear in your business bank account a few days later? Unfortunately, that’s not how these things tend to work. Instead, you have to go out and search for what’s available for your small business needs. Often, this comes in the form...
When I was in preschool, all my friends wanted to be a firefighter when they grew up. In high school, they wanted to play professional sports, and then in college, they all wanted to become an entrepreneur.
Though there are different types of entrepreneurship, most people are...
Confidentiality agreements, also called nondisclosure agreements or NDAs, are important tools for protecting your company's proprietary information. But they can also create legal liabilities of their own.
Just ask Amazon, which is fending off numerous complaints over NDAs the company reportedly asked employees to sign before being sent...
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?”…