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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

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However, the challenges you face are the same ones that every successful small business owner has faced and then surmounted in some way or another. It can be instructive and inspirational to hear about businesses that triumphed over adversity. How these six businesses worked with the SBA to grow.

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5 Free Platforms Entrepreneurs Should Be Using To Manage And Streamline Their Business

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Now that you have your business up and running you must sustain and grow it, but how do you do that? There are many helpful resources for budding entrepreneurs and small business owners and my first recommendation is to start with the U.S. Getting into the e-commerce game with Magento.

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How To Start A New Business

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It’s not easy to start a new business. About two-thirds of businesses with employees survive 2 years and only about half survive five years. Businesses that survive and thrive have an unfair advantage. Are you an expert in short sales? The biggest ones are typically a sales pipeline, people, cash and productivity.

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5 Ways Startups Can Reduce Development Costs & Shorten Time To Market

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According to the Small Business Administration , just one in two businesses with employees survives to see its fifth anniversary. By the 10-year mark, fewer than 30% of businesses with employees remain viable. Surprisingly, macroeconomic trends have minimal impact on long-term business survival rates.

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How to Start a Successful Consulting Business: The Complete 10 Step Guide (2019)

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Navigating the transition between a salaried employee and running your own consulting business can be tricky. People often ask: How do I get clients for my consulting business? Can I start a consulting business while working full time? Here’s a 10 step complete guide for starting a consulting business from scratch.

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How to Write an Executive Summary

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For example, with an existing company, that information might be as simple as adding recent annual sales or number of employees to the basic company information in the first bullet here. For a startup, it might be a brief description of aspirations, such as a sales goal for the next year or three years from now. In the U.S.,

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How to Start a Business: A Step-by-Step Complete Guide (2019)

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This is the most complete guide online on how to start a business in 2019. You should know that about two-thirds of businesses with employees survive 2 years and about half survive only five years. Businesses that survive and thrive have an unfair advantage. Write a business plan. Purchase business insurance.