Funding and Building your Business

The government program began in 1990 to provide incentives to prime contractors to help small, disadvantaged companies develop technical skills.

"We’re doing business how it used to be done — and it’s online."

"Before we came up with this process," says Joe Martins, 53, the program’s architect, "we had a system to define new products. What we wanted was a method to find new business opportunities. We called it Phoenix because we wanted to create something from nothing."

Feel like you have lost your entrepreneurial urge? Maybe you should apply for a job with the European Space Agency. It is looking for volunteers willing to spend three months in bed! Scientists want to…

If you’re thinking of starting a company, it could pay to know if you have the right characteristics for entrepreneurial success. Take this 26-question quiz to gain an inkling of your potential.

The timing and needs may vary, but every entrepreneurial organization comes to the point when it needs board members.

“Once you have a decent chunk of your savings in [the business], psychologically you can’t walk away from it. That’s the best [reason] for anybody to stay because in the end that’s what it’s all about … If your money is in there, you don’t want to walk away without it.”

"Creativity is not a solitary occurrence. "It’s very much a collaborative effort." Andy Stefanovich- Cofounder Play

Before starting my own company, I was a hiring manager and experienced first-hand the way candidates came across in interviews, represented themselves on paper and followed up. There were certain patterns that, over time, became…

Shapiro told business leaders in Boise on Friday at the Intermountain Business Forum that the passage of the act brought a number of “unintended consequences” for businesses, and many of them were negative.