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Business 2015 - Optimism, But Upgrade Your Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

According to earlier studies from Forbes Insights , many entrepreneurs and small businesses not only feel the lessons learned during the past few years have helped them survive, but the recession also exposed flaws in their business strategies that they were able to fix. 2015 business optimism entrepreneur strategy'

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4 Reasons Small Businesses Fail

YoungUpstarts

Most entrepreneurs start a new business with dreams of success, but the unfortunate fact is that too many of them fail. Census Bureau showed the reality in hard terms – 400,000 small businesses opened and 470,000 SMBs closed their doors just last year. Small Business Administration.

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Female Founder Interview: Latina Leader Elizabeth Colón

The Startup Magazine

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder series , we sat down with award-winning entrepreneur Elizabeth Colón. With over 20 years of experience in the language services industry, Elizabeth garnered national praise for her leadership and expertise in her field with awards such as Negocios Now’s Latinas in Business Award (2017).

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Accelerate Your Startup With Help From An Incubator

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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Is Your City Right For A Small Business Revolution?

YoungUpstarts

by Quint Studer, founder of Studer Community Institute and author of “ Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top “ No doubt about it: Small businesses are leading the way to revitalize America. Strong communities are good for business; I think we can all agree on that.

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5 Tips For Small Business Success In 2014

YoungUpstarts

According to Hiscox’s 5 th annual EDNA of an Entrepreneur report , training isn’t a top priority for small business owners. small business owners took zero professional development days. But this is a lot for the average small business owner to wrap their heads around.

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15 Tips for Turning Your Craft Hobby Into a Successful Business

crowdSPRING Blog

Etsy, the internet’s largest crafting marketplace has reported steady revenue increases since 2015. and around the world are looking to turn their craft hobbies into real businesses. A sole proprietorship is the “most basic type of business to establish” according to the SBA (Small Business Administration).