Bridge the Gap from Business Idea to Startup First-time entrepreneurs think their innovative idea was the hard part. In reality, your challenge has just begun. One thing I have learned the hard way in business is that implementing new ideas is usually much more difficult than conceiving the idea in the first place. That’s why I caution […]
4 SEO Strategies You Should Focus on When Starting Your Business If you want to acquire new customers for free later, think about SEO as soon as you start your company. Search engine optimization — SEO for short — is likely not top of mind when you’re getting a new business off the ground. You may be […]
Disney Dominates, but These Startups May Be the Future The Animaze film festival featured fascinating alternatives to the corporate giant’s animation factory model. For decades, Disney has dominated the $270 billion market for animated content, especially for feature films. There are other big animation studios–DreamWorks and Sony come to mind–but they tend to be Disney imitators rather than innovators. Well, it turns […]
Startup talent on job search engines that aren’t LinkedIn It’s not the only job search engine out there. Probably the most famous job search engine is LinkedIn, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only one. It also doesn’t mean it’s the one that will stay on top forever–remember when Monster.com was the best place to find candidates and […]
Things You Can Do to Start a Lifestyle Business In 2008, I had a pretty good idea that my day job wasn’t going to be a long term solution for me. However, it wouldn’t be for another 18 months until I’d actually leave my job. During most of those 18 months, I stayed stagnant and […]
