Almost every week we see a new article with a headline like “10 best cities for startups” or “10 most business-friendly states.” Frontier Communications, the digital, long distance, cable TV, and Internet service provider, just released their “Top 10” list and it has a specific focus that makes it interesting: 10 Friendliest States for Online […]
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of 401(k) Business Financing for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. The relationship between startups and banks is – more often than not – a tenuous and uneasy one. While many business owners view banks as “too big to fail,” thousands of those same entrepreneurs wanting to […]
There are thousands of wannabe-entrepreneurs sitting at desks right now who want to dump their jobs. What they need is a strategy so they can start their small business while working their full-time job. This is the ultimate – and in many cases, the most difficult – way to bootstrap your new business. But, arguably […]
By Cliff Ennico Editor’s note: This week’s column is an excerpt from a talk given by Cliff Ennico to participants in a recent business plan competition. It was a pleasure to be a judge at this year’s competition. You are all to be congratulated on the amount of work you put into your business plans, […]
By Cliff Ennico If you go to your local bookstore (they still exist, don’t they?) or search for “entrepreneur” or “small business” on Amazon.com, you will find literally thousands of books and e-books on how to start a business. To paraphrase the Old Testament prophet Ecclesiastes: “Of the making of startup success books there is […]