You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. There are no “overrides” – for example, businesses don’t thrive just because they offer the latest technology, or because ever Read More
Whether you are a brand new start-up or solo entrepreneur, you know that the buck stops with you — meaning you have many hats to wear each and every day. Of those hats, there are ones you enjoy more than others, and ones you work hard to let someone else wear as soon as it is financially possible. Read More
The traditional mode of starting a company is to plan a serial process, where you complete only 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,” where you assume you won’t get it right the fir Read More
Any entrepreneur with a vision can postulate a new business, but it takes a collaboration of many people to make it a success. Today the complexity of forces required for success include multi-disciplinary skills, competencies, and experiences in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts Read More
Before rolling out your food blog, learn from other successful food blogs on how to produce a blog that generates traffic and earns income. Read More
We're celebrating women with these examples of great female entrepreneurs, each with their own inspirational stories of success. Read More
If you haven’t had a failure, you aren’t pushing the limits. If you are really an entrepreneur, you are a risk taker and less cautious by nature, so failures should be expected. Wear you startup failure as a badge of courage. Don’t go after failure, but embrace it when it does happen and grow from Read More
Francine Hardaway is the founder of Stealthmode Partners, an accelerator for entrepreneurs based in Arizona. The other titles on her resume include several versions of ‘founder’, as well as manager of Intel’s global press relations. Hardaway is a serial entrepreneur who recognized the value of tech Read More
What’s one tip you have for keeping startup costs under control in the early stage of a new company? Read More
If you’re employed while you’re working on a project on the side — whether it’s a full-fledged startup or something smaller — you need to make sure that your employer doesn’t actually wind up owning what you build.
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