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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

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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What Should Small Businesses Check On Their Employees?

YoungUpstarts

When you hear the question “What type of background checks should my small business run on employees?” you imagine that some invisible barrier exists between “small companies” and “large companies” that impacts which types of background screenings are and are not necessary.

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3 Key Factors Lenders Look For When Assessing Business Loans

The Startup Magazine

What you’re essentially trying to do is prove to the lender that so much money is coming into your business that you’re all but assured to eventually hit profitability, if you haven’t done so already. Lenders will also want to assess the credit history of both your business and the individual business owner applying for the loan.

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23 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- From personal experience. I owned a mortgage company when the mortgage industry crashed and lost almost everything pushing me to the brink of personal bankruptcy. 7- Help small business in website ranking on Google.

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Five Ways For A Startup To Secure And Keep A Big Client

YoungUpstarts

For any business, revenue matters. For a startup, sustained revenue is of paramount importance: a paucity of sales in one month could lead to bankruptcy the next. Professionalisms client management revenue sales Scott Tarlow startup Success Systems' By Scott Tarlow, founder, president and CEO of Success Systems.

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Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It

YoungUpstarts

companies can no longer afford to provide group health insurance to their employees. And both employers and employees alike have tried to make the most of a bad situation. In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. We said it.

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8 Key Disciplines Are Essential To Scale Any Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Image via Pixabay As a mentor to many small business owners, I always caution them that you can never relax completely, just because your initial solution or product set appears to be getting traction, and the market buzz is positive. Convert to working “on the business” vs “in the business.”