How to Start a Business: A Step-by-Step Guide. Talk to any entrepreneur or small business owner and you’ll quickly learn that starting a business requires a lot of work. Generating a business idea is a great starting point, but an idea doesn’t become a business without effort. Some budding entrepreneurs understand the effort necessary to […]
The Small Business Administration (SBA) estimates that enterprising Americans start over 627,000 new businesses every year. Thanks to these fine entreprenurial folks, you can grab a coffee and hit the gym while someone else walks your dog, does your taxes, optimizes your web page, plans your daughter’s wedding, and writes up your divorce settlement all on the same […]
Today marks 10 years since Google stoked great excitement in the tech community by unveiling a new product called Wave. I remember it clearly, because that day I sat down on my sofa 5,000 miles away from Google’s developer conference and wrote my first ever post as a paid tech journalist, trying to make sense of […]
My co-founders and I were all seniors in college (give or take a semester) when we founded Neighbor.com. While this was one of the busiest times of our lives, there were many advantages to starting a company as a student. This timing helped us get our startup off the ground. In this article, I’ll cover […]
So you want to be in business for yourself but you have little or no cash to put up as capital. You are well aware that the funding options for start-up businesses are severely restricted; you may even have heard that only about 3% of people looking for substantial outside funds to launch a new […]
