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Getting Venture Capital (4 of 5) – Going From The Meeting To A Term Sheet
Venture Capital – The Next Steps After The Meeting If the venture capitalists are interested, they will very quickly come up with a draft term sheet for you which gives an overview of the conditions under which they would make …
Black Entrepreneur Series (3 of 5) – Robert Johnson – Modeling Masters
"We sort of lived paycheck to paycheck, like a lot of African-American families do," says Black Entertainment Television founder Robert Johnson, "still do." From his humble beginnings in Mississippi to becoming the first self-made black billionaire in the world, Johnson …
Reasons To Start A Business – Positive Incentives
Setting Your Own Hours There are some people who just can't do the nine to five routine. Maybe you don't like the two hour commute you have to make every day to get to work and come home or maybe …
The 15 Most Important Onsite SEO Factors: Part 2 – Meta Tags
Following last week’s post on the importance of Document Titles (The 15 Most Important Onsite SEO Factors: Part 1 – The Document Title) I wanted to continue the discussion on Onsite SEO Factors today and talk about the use of …
Getting Venture Capital (3 of 5) – The First Meeting With The Venture Capitalist
Venture Capital – What Happens In The Meeting Meetings with venture capitalists are also referred to as "the dog & pony show." It provides the first opportunity for investors to meet the management of your company face to face and …
Black Entrepreneur Series (2 of 5) – John Johnson – Modeling Masters
John H. Johnson went from living on welfare to living in extreme wealth, becoming the first African American to make it onto the Forbes 400 list of the nation's richest individuals. By the time he died in 2005, his empire …
Reasons To Start A Business – Negative Incentives
Entrepreneurship is quickly becoming the driving force of the new economy. Startup entrepreneurs are generating impressive economic growth, powering the job market, and creating innovative solutions for today's emerging needs. In 2002, one in ten Americans were creating or growing …
The 15 Most Important Onsite SEO Factors: Part 1 – The Document Title
This month I want to start a new series looking at the 15 most important onsite SEO factors that can help determine where you rank with Google. Today I’m going to discuss the document title. Document Title The document title …
Getting Venture Capital (2 of 5) – Putting The Plan Together
Venture Capital – What The Proposal / Executive Summary Looks Like Make it so that your mother or grandmother can understand it. Entrepreneurs too often fill their business plans with of acronyms, tech terms, and buzz words. Intermediaries can usually …
Black Entrepreneur Series (1 of 5) – Chris Gardner – Modeling Masters
Chris Gardner wears a $10,000 watch on each wrist. On the right hand is a Cartier set to Chicago time, and on the left is a Roger Dubuis set to South African time. "I was late once and it cost …
YE In The News
We’ve added a new section to the blog called YE in The News. The point of the new section is to show off some of the many interviews that Young Entrepreneur founders Adam and Matthew Toren and their advice for …
The Foolproof Way To Finding The Best Keywords For Your Site
I gave a seminar tonight called SEO for Africa that looked at Picking The Right Keywords & 15 Simple Techniques You Can Use To Get On Page 1. It was a great event and we also raised some money for …
Getting Venture Capital (1 of 5) – Getting Ready
Venture Capital – Stages Of Financing The first stage of financing is to raise money from personal savings, credit cards, friends, and family. It is sometimes known as "golf-course preferred" when you ask people to invest in your company after …
Is What You're Doing More Important Than Sleep? – Modeling Masters
"I've always felt that life should be an adventure," says home-style guru and multi-millionaire Martha Stewart. "Every day should be important." Stewart's adventures began on August 3, 1941 when she was born into the industrial heartland of Jersey City, New …
Young Entrepreneurs Prefer Email
According to a new survey by Vodafone, today’s young entrepreneurs prefer using email instead of the phone to conduct the majority of their business. It was found that when going after clients the rate of phone use drops by 30% …
My Favorite Top 50 Marketing Blogs
After scouring the Internet for informative blogs to help entrepreneurs with their marketing efforts I put together our list of the Top 50 Marketing Blogs To Watch In 2008. Here they are: Search Marketing Blogs 1) Search Engine Land URL: …
6 Ways To Be More Productive And Get More Done
I had a meeting today with a potential client who asked me why I didn’t have my phone number on my website. I told him it was because we were getting too many inquiries and it was making us unproductive. …
Do What You Love And The Money Will Follow – Dana White
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) used to be nothing more than an underground fighting league, and one which was scarcely accepted in the U.S. That was, until Dana White came along. White transformed the UFC into one of the most …
Re-Launched YoungEntrepreneur.com Meets Growing Demand
Earlier this month I mentioned that the Young Entrepreneur forums were getting a new look and I highlighted some of the new features. Now here is the official press release with all the details! Entrepreneurial spirit is alive and kicking …
Entrepreneur Profile – Boobie Bib
Antonette Hoffman-Robinson is the 23 year old founder of Boobie Bib, a new product for nursing mothers. Antonette is a new mother who found herself at home with extra time on her hands. While reading through magazines she learned about …
How Does Your Blog Compare?
You work hard on your blog researching and posting every day but how does it compare to others in your industry? You can check it out at Blog Juice. The Blog Juice calculator is a free tool that will provide …
Who Holds You Accountable?
One of the things I’ve found with many startup entrepreneurs is that they get very excited about new ideas and don’t have the patience to actually follow through on the execution part of it. Most entrepreneurs have a million business …
MySpace's Tom Anderson
"It sounds crazy," says Chris DeWolfe, "but even in the first plan that I wrote up, I mentioned AOL, Yahoo! and Hotmail, knowing we would be big. And it's crazy to think that it happened." Together, Chris DeWolfe and Tom …
Entrepreneur Profile – Bryan Sims
How much are you willing to give up to launch your business? Would you say no to a full college scholarship and drop out of university? That is exactly what Bryan Sims, CEO of Brass Magazine did. Bryan was recently …
Links To Young Entrepreneur
Adding on to my post from earlier today I thought it would be useful to look at some of the interesting links that point to our favorite site, YoungEntrepreneur.com. While I don’t have access to the Google webmaster tools account …
