Funding and Building your Business
Early-Stage Startups Need Friends, Family, and Fools
Here is a summary of some key items to think about as an entrepreneur before approaching friends, family, or even fools:
Will 2012 Be the Year to Sell Your Small Business?
So with some optimism ahead, what should potential sellers be doing to prepare?
SBA Names Winners in Small Business Mobile Apps Challenge
The competition and resulting seven "apps" are meant to put new and useful web tools at the fingertips of growing entrepreneurs.
Red Flags To Avoid When Talking About Competitors
The best responses always require a combination of street smarts, confidence, humility, and honesty. Investors are often just checking to see how you tackle hard questions.
Finding Venture Cap Intelligence With The MoneyTree Report
Here’s a quick tip for individuals who are conducting venture capital intelligence research.
How To Build a "Lifestyle Business" with 30 Million Visitors Per Month: The wikiHow Story
wikiHow http://www.wikihow.com/ , which, as the name implies, is a crowdsourced encyclopedia of instructional articles on everything from how to kiss to how to perform CPR on a dog. (As it turns out, those are pretty much the same thing.)
The Male Lead as Entrepreneurs May Be Slipping
This study and others identify significant differences between the sexes in the approach and rationale for running ventures.
10 Rules For Picking a Company Name That Sticks
Right or wrong, the name you choose, or don’t choose, speaks volumes about your business savvy and understanding of the world you are about to enter.
Investors Like Ideas, But Measure You On Execution
Yes, even entrepreneurs need to follow a disciplined execution process if they want to maximize their probability for success.
Big Data has Potential but Requires Care
Both data and tools to manage it are growing, but taking advantage of it requires planning
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