Category: General

What’s Your Motivation?

Why do you want to go into business for yourself? Are you running away from a bad situation with your current employer? Have you been unemployed for a while and you hope by starting a business you can create an income stream? Are you burned out in your current career and desiring to do something different with your life? Do you have a burning desire to start and build a successful business enterprise? Are you committed to do whatever it takes to be a successful entrepreneur?

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Seven Common Start-up Mistakes Small Business Owners Make

It has been said that “small opportunities are the beginning of great enterprises.” That is certainly true for the millions of small business owners in the United States. But the birth of a new enterprise is often fraught with challenges and pitfalls. Each year there are about half a million business start-ups, but during the same time, there are slightly more business failures.

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The SBA Resorts to Propaganda and Pixie Dust.

At first I thought it was a joke. I received a press release from the SBA’s Office of Advocacy with the headline: Small Businesses Leading Nation’s Economic Recovery. But it wasn’t a joke or a misprint. The release cited the Small Business Economy 2012 Annual Report as the basis for the bold headline. Dr. Winslow Sargeant, Chief Counsel for Advocacy, stated the report demonstrates that small businesses have been at the core of our economy’s growth over the past few years.

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Mixing Love and Small Business Could Be a Recipe for Disaster

Making the decision to become your own boss, is as much a lifestyle choice as it is a career decision.  Starting and growing a business requires a major commitment of time and resources in order to succeed.  Because the business consumes so much of your life, it’s not uncommon for entrepreneurs to involve a spouse, […]

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