For most of us, the concept of launching into a business venture with little or no capital, and trusting to our instincts, and the ability to work miracles on little or no budget, sounds like madness. To the entrepreneur, however, it sounds perfectly reasonable.
In fact, every day, around the world, millions of entrepreneurs decide to [...]

It’s been amazing to watch the evolution of the Internet over the last couple of decades. What started out as a way to share information progressed to e-mail and games. Then came online shopping, which has grown into a multi-billion dollar business. It wasn’t long before more people saw the potential of Internet commerce, and [...]

As I shared in last week’s post, I recently had dinner with Ankur Jain, founder of the Kairos Society of collegiate entrepreneurs and son of business mogul Naveen Jain, and we got to talking about young entrepreneurs and what it means to create real change. Inspired by our conversation, I’d like to introduce you to five young [...]

Most business advice blogs tend to be full of stale, common sense puffery. My goal, as a guest blogger for Young Entrepreneur, is to apply my knowledge and experiences to the discussion of many business-changing decisions young entrepreneurs make or don’t make. Many of these practices are often considered taboo, but I plan to break them down [...]

I imagine entrepreneurship as a football game where your company is on offense and your opposing defense consists of your competition, the economy, your marketing acumen, your ability to hire the right people and, most importantly, your ability to handle stress and lead a team.
When growing a business, you don’t have to put on a [...]

The technology business can involve different paths to success, but most of those paths rarely lead anywhere except to bankruptcy and discouragement.  These businesses are so complex and difficult for many of us to comprehend that we often simply give in to the hype that permeates the industry.  We are exposed to ideas in the [...]

As a new contributor to YoungEntrepreneur.com I want to talk about a topic that is probably at the most forefront of doing business online, and that is the online marketing sales funnel. Obviously the nature of the internet is that it is fast-moving, and there seems to always be a site, or a way of [...]

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Marketing with Meaning [...]

In the first few installments of this series, we discussed the reasons as to why you should start your own business.  Here, I touch on some big deterrents which you should not allow to persuade you to go out on your own.  Every true entrepreneur finds him or herself in one way or another.  You [...]

When it comes to entrepreneurship, it’s worth noting that not all small business owners are created the same. It goes a little deeper than personality though. The type of entrepreneur you are can have an effect on how successful you are at starting a small business.
In this article, we look at several types of entrepreneur, [...]

When you first start out and found a company it goes without saying that, due to limited budget, you try your hand at every role within the organization and will find yourself stretched in every direction. As one of Huddle’s co-founders, I know only too well how you initially have to juggle successfully managing you [...]

Aspiring entrepreneurs often ask know how successful business owners got where they are today. More often than not, though, this curiosity is restricted to technical details like which business models were used or how startup financing was obtained. The idea seems to be that it’s just a matter of going through the same motions that [...]