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Before You Buy a Hotel Business, Answer These 4 Questions

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While areas such as Las Vegas, San Francisco, and New York bring in the most tourists a year, know that high-mileage areas are already saturated with hotels and come with a more expensive up-front cost. Write a business plan. You can download a free Lean Plan template to help you get started.

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Burn the bridges behind.

Berkonomics

I used my employee discount that last day to purchase a Compaq luggable computer and drove with my brother to Las Vegas. I never took a business course, never wrote a business plan, and never raised any outside capital. I never got fired, but I did quit one job the day before I was to be let go.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

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million raised, per CrunchBase): It was January of second semester of my second year, and Michelle [Zatlyn, Matt’s co-founder] and I were brainstorming different ideas to enter into the business plan competition. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1

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So You Want to Start a Cannabis Business: Advice for the Absolute Beginner

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It doesn’t matter if you’re starting your cannabis business in Washington, Colorado, or Maine; you should start by building authentic relationships with your local cannabis community.” With any startup, investment capital is crucial to getting your business plan off the ground. ” Raise enough capital.

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What to Do When Your Business Hits a Rough Patch

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With few other options, FedEx founder Fred Smith flew to Las Vegas and sat down at a blackjack table. Sometimes the forecasts I see are actually the original numbers from their business plan, unchanged and unaltered over the years. Business plans should be treated as a living document.

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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor VC

are going to add this story to our blog via our IT guy at [link] we have a audience in las vegas that will read your article. November 21, 2009 6:58 PM. blog internships. This is a great blog,this website provides very useful tips.we Thanks Jeff blog internships. December 29, 2009 9:11 AM. Great job, Professor Bennet!

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Stop Bad-mouthing the Millenial Generation and Read the Facts

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A new study by CT Corporation shows that 61 percent of recent college grads want to start their own business, 45 percent believe that it is likely they will start a business, and 51 percent say starting their own business will in the long-term provide greater security than a job with an existing company.

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