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True leaders realize that, by definition, the word "leader" places the leader at the front, and not the rear. Yet many, many executives try to lead through fear and intimidation. This isn’t really leading at all. It’s pushing. In all businesses, leading from the front means that you are not afraid Read More

Could two heads be better than one for your small business?

Partnerships can benefit start-ups and growing business in many ways – shared risk, access to funds and expertise, and the sharing of duties. Of course, partnerships can be risky. One partner may not pull their weight, financi Read More

Shubham Banerjee, 13 years old, has received VC funding for his invention, turning him into the youngest Entrepreneur to receive venture capital funding. Read More

A popular myth these days is that finishing college only dilutes your entrepreneurial instincts, and the best of the best, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out early to hasten their success. I agree with Robert E. Litan, former VP of research at the Kauffman Foundation, Read More

The good news is that the rate of entrepreneurship is down a bit, to pre-recession levels, according to the latest Kaufmann Index of entrepreneurial activity. The bad news is that it’s still high, the opportunity for change is huge, and the cost of entry is at an all-time low. It’s a jungle fight f Read More

The traditional mode of starting a company has been to plan a serial process, where you complete once all the steps, leading to the “big bang” launch of the company. I strongly recommend a dramatic departure from this model, called “planned iteration” or Lean Startup methodology, where you assume y Read More

Make sure you take care of these to dos before the end of the year to ensure your small business is ready for 2015. Read More

Does it really take a few flaws to make a great entrepreneur, or are the rest of us just confused about what a perfect business person is all about? In the past I’ve written about the positive attributes of great entrepreneurs, so this time I thought I would focus on the negatives that I see often, Read More

A recent study by the CT Corporation indicates that among those born in the ’80s and ’90s, the entrepreneurial spirit is strong and thriving. To help visualize the data, we put together the following infographic and broke it into three distinct areas... Read More