These materials represent some of the best thinking and finest advice on how to succeed as a small-business owner. Read More
With the profit margin on a cup of coffee so high. You'd think the coffee business would be a great field to get into. Well, it is.

The catch is all of those Starbucks and Peets coffees on every corner. How do you compete against them?.. Read More
Effective communication is an absolute requirement for successfully starting a business, but it doesn’t come naturally to many entrepreneurs. Communication is considered a social skill, and inventors and engineers, for example, aren’t known to be social butterflies. Read More
If you are going to write your own business plan, and you have never drafted one before, it can be extremely helpful to view a sample business plan before you get started.

Not only do you get to see the format of the plan and the writing structure, but you can also see the content that other sma Read More
An interview with Adam Siegel, co-founder of Inkling Markets, about why he left a six figure salary at a large company to start his own company. Read More
The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. Even if you have booked an hour with a VC, you should plan to talk only for the first fifteen minutes. The biggest complaint I hear from investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most Read More
We were reflecting back to my early days of an entrepreneur and how I made every excuse to not actually get started. So what does this stand for? Scared to Get Started Syndrome. Read More
By their very nature, Small Businesses are expected to be lean, mean, penny-pinching machines. In this economy, however, being a lean, mean, penny-pinching machine has gone from “expected” to absolutely mandatory. Read More
If your startup is looking for an angel investor, does it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up? In reality, hitting large numbers of angels in multiple locations with a generic pitch is one of the least productive approa Read More
If you've employed a web designer to design your site you need to read this book. SEO for non technical people.
If your’e struggling to understand SEO then this post is for you.

24 hours a day, 365 days a year the mighty Google machine is processing search engine requests. Some of these searche Read More
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