business planning
4 Tips for Rapid Startup Growth
Student entrepreneur Eric Muli on the importance of sticking to a plan when looking to expand.
3 Tips for Handling Startup Hiccups
Business consultant Joshua Medcalf on the importance of embracing the unknown.
How Informational Meetings Can Expand Your Network and Influence (Video)
Want to network and bone up on the industry you’re hoping to launch into? Business coach Antonio Neves offers some tips for how to master the art of informational meetings.
4 Tips for Creating an Exit Strategy for Your Startup
Social entrepreneur and educator Steve Mariotti on the importance of forecasting your long-term plans from the start.
Biggest Mistakes: How JackThreads Overcame Its Growing Pains (Video)
When the menswear flash-sale site first started up, planning ahead for growth would have helped. Here, founder Jason Ross dishes on his company’s biggest mistake and overcoming it.
What Type of Entrepreneur are You?
When starting up, it helps to know your strengths. Here's how to parse them out.
How to Navigate Growth During a Startup’s Early Years
Thinking about where your startup will be five or 10 years down the road may seem like a lesson in futility, but it'll help you keep growth top of mind. Here are four tips for planning for growth.
10 Top Reasons Why First-Time Entrepreneurs Fail
You never want to make the same mistake twice, but isn't success sweeter when you don't make any? Here are some reasons why businesses fail and tips for how to avoid it.
Project Restaurant: Turning 8th Graders into Future Mario Batalis
A summer program in Harlem is teaching students what it takes to launch and grow a successful eatery.
Why Your Business Plan is Probably Incomplete
In creating a business plan, many entrepreneurs forget to bring along their roadmaps for how they'll accomplish goals. Here are a few can't miss sights.
6 Key Elements of a Good Business Plan
Venture capitalist, author and professor Peter S. Cohan answer readers’ top questions about entrepreneurship.
Is Working at a Startup a Waste of Time for Future Founders?
After a recent blog post detailing the vagaries of life at startups hit the web, we asked young treps to share their own experiences as start-up employees.
Where ‘Shark Tank’ Goes to Poach Young Entrepreneurs
Starting up when you're 13 may not be easy, but for some it could mean landing big bucks -- as ABC's hit show 'Shark Tank' looks for fodder on school campuses.
7 Ways to Weigh Your Start-Up Risks — and Reduce Them
Starting up is obviously a risk, which can make jumping right in scary. Here's how to minimize those risks to boost your entrepreneurial rewards.
What to Do When Friends Want to Be Co-Founders
One of the toughest challenges a young entrepreneur may face is turning away friends who want to join their companies. Here are some options.
5 Tips for Finding the Right Office Space
As an entrepreneur, the process of finding an office space for your young business can be completely overwhelming. When you know what you want, it's too easy to jump over important steps in the search process and land yourself with …
Real Investors Don't Sign Confidentiality Agreements
Entrepreneurs often get the advice from their lawyers and friends to always get a Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA or CDA) signed before disclosing anything about their new venture. Most investors and startup advisors I know hate them, and refuse to sign …
Your Dream Will Die Without The Startup Essentials
I've noticed a great tendency among startup founders to ignore the essentials of business accounting in the early stages of their startup. Just because you are not profitable yet, doesn't mean you can skip the record keeping. In fact, just …
10 Reasons You’re Not Reaching Your Goals; or, What I Learned from Writing a Really Crappy Novel
I hit a big goal of mine – finally – just before 2011 ended. I finished writing the novel I began five or so years ago. When I say finished, however, what I mean is that the very first, very …
Why You Need to Compartmentalize Your Life when Building a Business
Starting a business can be one of the most challenging things that you can take on in your life. While the rewards of owning your own business cannot be matched in the corporate world, the hours worked and rollercoaster ride …
6 Tips to Get People to Look Past Your Age and See an Expert
You want to make the big deals and the big bucks. However, your hurdle is the fact that your looks and voice haven't matured as much as your ambition has. You have the disadvantage that your potential clients and business …
Time Management — No, But Really This Time
We all want to do more things in less time. It's a common theme throughout all of corporate America, and it even extends into professions like healthcare, education, and civil service. We can't rely on the institution we've placed ourselves …
Holding Strong: How Working with a Holding Company Benefits You
Most start-ups know they can't go it alone. They hire consultants, bring in interns, and look into developing relationships with other companies who can increase their chances of success. Because of their desire to prove they can make it on …
Entrepreneurship 101: Are you Ready?
You've decided that you want to own your own business. You've got a great idea you're sure will take off, and you're pretty sure you have what it takes to become an entrepreneur. Whether you'd like to run a company …
The Golden Rule About Your Great Ideas
Every young entrepreneur has great ideas. They come all the time. In the shower, on the bus, while pouring milk into your cereal. When the idea arrives from somewhere in your soul, it is perfect. Your excitement rises as you …
