In speaking to business owners and “people in career transitions” nationwide, I am often called upon to speculate about the future. For example, I am frequently asked: What businesses should I be thinking of starting now? What businesses will still be around in ten years’ time? Where will tomorrow’s jobs be? Will there BE a future […]
Consider these developments: Africa will be transformed economically over the next 10 years. By 2016, China will be the world’s largest economy. Dubai International just passed Heathrow as the world’s business airport for international travel. Do these facts help put the future of commerce in perspective? If economic opportunity is knocking at a door for […]
Before the Internet Age, networking—even locally—was a fairly limited and certainly time-consuming endeavor. Mixers, professional associations and trade shows made up the bulk of the opportunities. Those traditional venues are still around and they are always worth exploiting. But today we have more opportunities and when the subject is networking on an international level, the […]
Being your own boss, controlling your own destiny, for many in our country is the American Dream. Starting and building a small business, however, is difficult. That’s why the failure rates are high. Entrepreneurs, particularly women business owners, face myriad challenges from finding the start-up capital they need to obtaining access to markets and technical […]