Starting a business comes with multiple steps and processes that can overwhelm you. To make your life simpler, reference our checklist for starting a business below. It can help you if you don’t have the know-how to create your own startup checklist. Either way, having a physical list of items you can check off will make starting a business much smoother…
Want to start a business in 2021? Here are 2 things you should do to prepare
Starting a new business is an equally daunting and exciting task. The world is changing rapidly, and this phenomenon has forced many companies to rethink their operations. For aspiring entrepreneurs who are starting new businesses, there is an opportunity to do things differently and be part of a new generation of business owners who will succeed in this environment…
Should you get a loan to fund your startup?
If your experience with startup businesses is mostly based on what you’ve seen in movies, you may think that small business financing is as easy as walking into a bank and having a quick meeting with the manager. If you have a startup, you just need to put a business plan together first.
In reality, banks are reluctant to make new business loans…
The complete, 12-step guide to starting a business
Youtuber Daniel Rose just posted this incredible GoPro video that isn’t his, but we’re sure the owner is just fine with that. Here is Rose’s explanation:
“So this happened.. We decided to go fishing and with the first cast of the night my sisters fishing rod pulls up a GoPro camera! I have made this video public so that it can be shared around so that hopefully the SD card…
4 mistakes your startup is (likely) making with customer-relationship management
Customers are the lifeblood of any successful startup, but if your startup doesn’t know how to properly handle customer relationships, you’ll have a hard time attracting and retaining them.
It doesn’t matter what industry you work in. Your startup needs to develop strong relationships with its customers, and that means making...
5 things to consider before you quit your job to start a business
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?”…
4 ways to successfully build a bootstrapped business
Many aspiring entrepreneurs think the key to growing a successful company is linked to the ability to secure investor funding. For some businesses this may be true, but many successful companies have been built from the ground up with no outside investment or support, aka bootstrapping. It takes great dedication, strong work ethic, sweat equity and an immense amount of drive to bootstrap a business to success…