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Tipping Its Hat to a Younger Generation, Pukka Headwear Finds Success in the Golf Industry

Tipping Its Hat to a Younger Generation, Pukka Headwear Finds Success in the Golf Industry

After years of struggle, the golf cap company stands out in a crowded market with a customized approach to selling.
Teaching Kids to Code With Youth Digital

Teaching Kids to Code With Youth Digital

With a heightened emphasis on learning to code, Youth Digital wants to help the next generation of young entrepreneurs succeed.
Dell and Students Look to Entrepreneurship to Reform the Education System

Dell and Students Look to Entrepreneurship to Reform the Education System

Dell is joining forces with a student advocacy group for an all-day event to discuss entrepreneurship in the educational system.
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500 Startups Opens Up New Manhattan Co-Working Space. Should You Join?

500 Startups Opens Up New Manhattan Co-Working Space. Should You Join?

With another coworking space opening its doors, does it make sense for your startup to apply?
Finding Start-Up Success Through Serious School Spirit

Finding Start-Up Success Through Serious School Spirit

University of Oregon grad Abraham Choe wanted more university-branded goods. So he launched a business to make it happen.
Have a Burning Business Question? Ask the Expert

Have a Burning Business Question? Ask the Expert

Venture capitalist, author and professor Peter S. Cohan wants to answer your big questions about starting up, managing and growing a small business.
Need a Business Idea? Tap Into Lifestyle Trends in the Evolving Luxury Market

Need a Business Idea? Tap Into Lifestyle Trends in the Evolving Luxury Market

Here are three ways startups can tailor product offerings for growth industries.
Skillshare and Changing the Way We Learn

Skillshare and Changing the Way We Learn (Video)

Learning doesn't have to end at graduation. Here's how Malcolm Ong and Michael Karnjanaprakorn built a business that aims to put learning first.
5 Tips for Surviving Your Startup’s First Year

5 Tips for Surviving Your Startup’s First Year

One of the riskiest times for any business is when it's just begun. Here are five key steps to take to make sure your startup survives that tough first year.
Rainn Wilson on SoulPancake and Social Media

Rainn Wilson on SoulPancake and Social Media

See how the actor's new media company SoulPancake is making a business out of helping you chew on life's big questions.
How Guppy Treps Fared After a Swim in the ‘Shark Tank’

How Guppy Treps Fared After a Swim in the ‘Shark Tank’

Here's a look at what happened to three companies once their young founders got investors to take the bait.
The Risk-Averse Entrepreneur’s Guide to Startup Success

The Risk-Averse Entrepreneur’s Guide to Startup Success

So you’ve got an idea for a small business. Congratulations! Now, it’s time to figure out how to make it one that survives and even thrives. Many would-be entrepreneurs are held back by fears of failure due to the risks …
Seven Keys to a Profitable Small Business

Seven Keys to a Profitable Small Business

Running a business, whether big or small, requires a type of leadership that taps into various areas of business expertise to bring together an all-around profitable business. Some companies excel in certain areas and bleed profits in others. It is …
How to Break Your Business into the Next Tier

How to Break Your Business into the Next Tier

For business owners, leading a company to the next level can be one of the most exciting, and most frightening, steps of their career. The feeling is similar to the decision one must make between clinging to a life raft …
Hard-Wired to Belong: How to Instantly Create Brand Super Fans

Hard-Wired to Belong: How to Instantly Create Brand Super Fans

In today's ultra-transparent and interconnected world, it's worth paying attention to how you can create super fans and get brand advocates working for you. Your ultimate goal is for your customers to identify so strongly with your brand that they'd …
How to Win in Business? Know Thy Competitor

How to Win in Business? Know Thy Competitor

Competition can be a funny thing. Any business would love to be the top competitor in the game, but that means there are likely one or more competitors gunning for your spot. Whether you choose to enter the market to …
A Plea to Startup Founders — Avoid This Syndrome

A Plea to Startup Founders — Avoid This Syndrome

Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes it comes right back to the founder, in terms of …
Fresh Ideas: 10 Ways to Win Over an Unsupportive Family as a Young Entrepreneur

Fresh Ideas: 10 Ways to Win Over an Unsupportive Family as a Young Entrepreneur

It’s no secret that entrepreneurs often beget entrepreneurial children, but when entrepreneurs spring from employees, strife often develops. Entrepreneurs understand how the business of working for yourself works — and they’ve seen first-hand its benefits. But for people who’ve grown …
How to Make Your Email Marketing Work — 5 Keys for Success

How to Make Your Email Marketing Work — 5 Keys for Success

Email marketing is a fantastic way to keep constant contact with various prospects or past clients as a way of staying top of mind when it comes time for your subscribers to act. Email marketing may seem simplistic enough on …
5 Ways to Decrease Stress When Starting a Business

5 Ways to Decrease Stress When Starting a Business

Starting a business can easily be one of the most stressful projects that you can take on in your life. With that being what it is, it is critical for many reasons to find ways to manage the high levels …
12 Golden Rules of Email Etiquette

12 Golden Rules of Email Etiquette

As with any human interaction there are a certain set of unwritten rules of etiquette. Not sticking to the basic etiquette of email can lead to annoyed friends or even get you in quite a bit of hot water at …
The Big Mistake Businesses are Making with Pinterest

The Big Mistake Businesses are Making with Pinterest

By now, most of us have heard the buzz about Pinterest and its incredible and continuous growth. So the next step is figuring out how we can get a piece of it and properly use it for our businesses. One …
How to Finish What You Start

How to Finish What You Start

The only way you can finish one thing is to say no to other things. You have to say no to all the other books you could write in order to finish the one you already started writing. You have …
9 Bad Habits That Every Entrepreneur Struggles With

9 Bad Habits That Every Entrepreneur Struggles With

After working with dozens of startup founders, I'm still amazed that some seem to be able to do the job easily and effectively, always in control, while others always seem to be struggling, out-of-control, and fighting the latest crisis.  I …
5 Accounting Mistakes That Can Sink a Business

5 Accounting Mistakes That Can Sink a Business

Running a small business means that the owner will likely be forced to wear quite a few different hats of responsibilities.  Owners frequently find themselves inevitably in the accounting role in hopes of saving money and many have a though …
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