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9 Principles Especially Critical For A Micro-Business

Startup Professionals Musings

In time, many businesses outgrow their meager beginnings, to become major enterprises, comparable to the current giants Amazon and Apple. Yet my years of advising entrepreneurs and small businesses has taught me that you do have to follow some basic principles and operational strategies, even to get a micro business off the ground.

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How to Start a Business While You’re in College

Up and Running

The proportion of US workers earning a living on a “freelance” basis was 34 percent in 2016, and the gig economy is expected to grow enough to cause that number to rise to 43 percent by 2020. It’s easier to bootstrap. As such, there’s solid sense in getting one step ahead while you’re still studying. These include: 1.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

ReadWriteStart

It turns out that in my Vision India 2020 book, I have a similar project called FDBI. My personal analysis is that to make a financial institution successful by catering to the said segment will require a tight control of the types of businesses that are financed. My recommendation to Hardika is to study the FDBI project. Discuss.

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

Especially with alternative social media, his advice has helped many small businesses find success. Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is an image that resonates with me when I think about what makes a successful entrepreneur, and Carnegie definitely represents that image. Thanks to Jerry Han, PrizeRebel ! #9- 9- Steve Jobs.

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The Rise Of The Virtual Assistant

YoungUpstarts

In today’s small business and start-up world, when you want a reliable (and affordable) assistant, you don’t have to limit yourself to your geographic location. In fact, remote work is on the rise – especially in the form of virtual assistants – and it’s one of the primary reasons why more small businesses are opting to outsource work.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.

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Strategy Roundtable: Convert Potential Competitors to Partners

ReadWriteStart

Antonio has a portfolio of Web-based business process management applications for small businesses with 10-100 employees. And these pilots will pay for her early bootstrapping phase. At the end of the session, each left with specific action items. First up today was Antonio Lucena de Faria with ActionFlow from Portugal.

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