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

YoungUpstarts

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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3 Startups To Watch Out For In 2018

YoungUpstarts

According to the latest statistics released by the Small Business Administration , there are just under 29 million small businesses in the United States that employ more than 56.8% Those are impressive statistics when you stop to consider small businesses account for approximately 99.7%

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Help! My Business Needs a Marketing Plan and I Don’t Know Where to Start

Up and Running

This is how I describe a marketing plan to my clients: “While marketing is the engine driving your business, a marketing plan is the road map guiding your business.” ” While marketing is the engine driving your business, a marketing plan is the road map guiding your business.

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3 Ways Acquisition Entrepreneurship Is Better Than Starting Your Own Business

YoungUpstarts

Adopting a “getting on base” strategy engineers greater success in entrepreneurship — a field with high rates of failure. With acquisition entrepreneurship, you focus on establishing revenue and earnings first, and then you provide a platform for a lifestyle business or major innovation from there. Buying Is Better.

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4 Crucial Tools To Keep Your Startup In Business The First 3 Years

YoungUpstarts

According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), a whopping 627,000 businesses launch annually. But an estimated 595,000 businesses also go out of business each year. Software designed around BPM’s core values of design, modeling, execution, monitoring, optimization and re-engineering.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 26: Javier Saade and Hillary Hartley

Steve Blank

The Small Business Administration and the digital services agency 18F are trying to help entrepreneurs build successful companies and the 21st century digital government. Javier Saade , former associate administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration. Javier Saade. Hillary Hartley.