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| | 6 Rules for Married Entrepreneurs | | 2008-07-15 13:09:38 | | I marvel at my parents’ relationship for many reasons, the main one being that they’ve owned a business together for almost 20 years. While they’re the first to tell you there have some tense moments, overall I think they have a stronger relationship because of their business. I forwarded them this Wall Street Journal blog [...]
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| | Great Ideas and Lessons for Entrepreneurs | | 2008-06-12 06:46:32 | | * If you have money, you make the rules.* Move before you are ready; ie just do it; let go of perfectionism, let go of the need to educate yourself 100% before you get started.* Intelligence and knowledge are NOT the key to success, hard work and taking action is.* Scalability is where the money is.* Have success rituals, set up your daily life so that you are energized and focused* Discipline is like a muscle, the more you exercise it the easier it gets.* Don't wait for that billion dollar idea to do something, just do ANYTHING and get started.* "No excuses" mindset - stop bullshitting yourself.* Originality is overrated. Copy and go with what works.* It's not the idea, it's the execution of the idea that makes the difference.* Only hire and work with Drivers.* 20% of the info/ideas = 80% of your profits* Don't think "What does this cost me?", think "How much extra can I make with this?"* Tired? Unmotivated? PUSH THROUGH it. Consistency and momentum are key.* If you are consistent, ge... | | By: E-business Ideas | | |
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| Entrepreneurs head to RaiseCapital | | 2008-06-03 21:43:08 | | I receive a fair amount of solicitations for free plugs but when Maureen Mecke from 5W Public Relations sent one for RaiseCapital. I felt it was right for this audience. RaiseCapital is like the funding section on StartupAddict.com, it gives entrepreneurs the ability to find the ever “elusive” startup funding.
According to the 5W Public [...]... | | By: Startup Addict Musings | | |
| | | Nouveau Riche: Most Promising New Ventures for American Entrepreneurs! | | 2008-05-18 08:10:45 | | Here is an interesting CNN Money article about Nouveau Riche, featuring 12 of the most promising new ventures for American entrepreneurs. And I kid you not! A few of these ventures focus on individuals who are now considered Nouveau Riche (new rich) because of their entrepreneurial ideas. The information came direct from Nouveau Riche University, a firm that has helped people become Nouveau Riche! Want more information about Nouveau Riche University? Click here, friends www.GraduateRiche.com The article, Planet Startup, highlights a dozen of the most promising new ventures for American entrepreneurs. As everyone knows, American investment in overseas businesses has nearly doubled since 2002. And this is evident from the stories featured in the article describing lucrative ventures in unlikely places. The Nouveau Riche ventures featured include information on seed capital, risk level, and venture description. These include ventures related to building cheap Wi-Fi networks for resorts ... | | By: The AnitoKid Chronikos | | |
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| Entrepreneurs and investors | | 2008-03-24 20:02:45 | | Through my work I meet lots of Internet entrepreneurs and while many are successful some find it very hard to secure the funding they need for their projects. They may have some really good ideas, but just can't find the investors willing to take a risk on them.Go4funding is a fantastic website that provides a place for entrepreneurs to find investors for their projects. Investors will also love this site as they can view hundreds of different ideas to invest in. This site is a fantastic idea (one I wish that I had) and should be very successful as well as being very helpful to investors and entrepreneurs. Currently the site has many projects listed in various categories ranging from arts and entertainment to travel. They also have sections for business ideas and finding an expert. A brand new forum has just launched, which should provide some very useful discussion for entrepreneurs and investors alike. If you are looking for Investment opportunities or are an entrepreneur looking for... | | By: The Golf Blog | | |
| | Entrepreneurs frown at evaluations | | 2008-02-26 06:23:00 | | The owners of many enterprises participating in the Programme to Develop the Key Industrial Products of Ho Chi Minh City said that they were disappointed with the evaluation results given by the city’s Department of Science and Technology.
In order to have between 60 and 100 key industrial products accounting for 10-15 per cent of the city’s total GDP by 2010, the city People’s Committee has... | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | Go4Funding.com - An Online Meeting Place for Young Entrepreneurs and Investors | | 2008-02-21 12:40:29 | | This decade can successfully be called an era of startups, and pursuing an idea or a business dream has definitely become much more easier and less complicated than it used to be a few years ago. More and more people with money are looking to invest in young startups and projects as Angel Investors or Venture Capitalists. And with more tools available online, if you have a bright idea, but fall short on the capital, you can surely find quite a few pwople to back you up! Go4Funding.com is one such website that I really liked. Unlike several others, it is unique as it offers a fresh look and provides a platform to bring entrepreneurs, business owners and investors closer together.Go4Funding is designed exclusively to simplify the whole process of investing, looking for funds or setting up various resources required to take your business plans to the next level. The site is very well-organized and categorised, and its layout resembles a blog in some way, especially how they display the re... | | By: Cool Ideas and gadgets | | |
| | | Entrepreneurs Mindset some thoughts | | 2008-01-24 01:57:00 | | Entrepreneurs MindsetSome thoughts for your perusalAs I was driving back from our meeting with our financial investors and possible lead investor, I had a few thoughts on what characteristics makes a "Good" Entrepreneur, I have listed them below:Honesty: with your self , your employees and your investors.Simplicity: don't make things to difficultListener: Listen to others, listen to yourselfPassion: I had a post along while ago on good food....and mentioned that you know when a cook is passionate about what they do, you can taste the difference, same in businessDetermination: I watched my two budgies last night and when they set about a task, they go at it for hours, just picking away at it, they may sleep but the next morning they are back at it. The same for your businessCommunicator: goes without saying, but most folk miss that they will need to communicate there passion and vision to others and get there buy inQuestionnaire: No one else will ask the hard questions for a while until... | | By: Gordon Whyte's Blog of the daily challenges of an | | |
| | ZeroMillions Entrepreneurs | | 2007-12-29 19:31:00 | | Broadly speaking, the term "e-business" refers to using the Internet for doing business. Are you doing e-business?Is your business doing e-business? Here's a checklist to find out. If you can say yes to any of these, then you are doing e-business. * We communicate with customers, clients or suppliers via email. * We send emails to other businesses to order products and services. * We sell our products or services via our website. * We use the Web to find information, such as prices, phone numbers, reviews of products.Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new organizations or revitalizing mature organizations, particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities. Entrepreneurship is often a difficult undertaking, as a vast majority of new businesses fail. Entrepreneurial activities are substantially different depending on the type of organization that is being started. Entrepreneurship ranges in scale from solo projects (even involving the entrepreneur only part-time) to major undertakings creating many job opportunities. Many "high-profile" entrepreneurial ventures seek venture capital or angel funding in order to raise capital to build the business.Zeromillion.com offers free online eb00ks to entrepreneurs . A full comprehensive online guide treult to help young entrepreneurs succeed. Lean the basics as well as tips and tricks on succeeding .Advantages of EntrepreneurshipEvery successful entrepreneur brings about benefits not only for himself/ herself but for the municipality, region or country as a whole. The benefits that can be derived from entrepreneurial activities are as follows: 1. Enormous personal financial gain 2. Self-employment, offering more job satisfaction and flexibility of the work force 3. Employment for others, often in better jobs 4. Development of more industries, especially in rural areas or regions disadvantaged by economic changes, for example due to globalisation effects 5. Encouragement of the... | | By: Business21oriented | | |
| | Personal loans: Woman entrepreneurs, who classify new heights | | 2007-10-13 12:52:54 | | New research uncovered the fact that woman-prominent business in Great Britain leaned strongly and numbered more than 600,000 with their contribution, which approximates to £130bn to the Treasury. They followed by their business with their own rules, basic rules and kinds of management. Name/fame to acquire and strongly itself endeavor to maintain it are, what they believe inside.Becoming completely inspired to all the young women, they inculcated the factor of "prove your value in your own dash". Many women arrive their resources to become the next contractor of the year. And when it comes to finances, or they have their family to provide to assistances or they approach the banking institutions for their financial needs. Perhaps, this is why the personal personal loans become popular with women.Rather sharply, its presence felt, women determine to form with care the market for their business. However in order all possible dangers in the rage, in order to grow and avoid in the guideline, decide you incisively on all your plans and its applications.Planning, if all adjust, in order to form your career, you plan strategies over your work. Form a listing of all articulately and to be eagerly followed for steps. Establish and form you your planning diagram, after you came to a tactful summary of a complete market study.The arrangement of finances this is the backbone of your business. While going for loans, made an intelligent choice according to conditions'. If you want to install a small company in the beginning, to choose the credit rating without guarantee where you should not run the risk to pawn your house to the lender. You can be useful yourselves of the maximum of £25.000 drawing aside through six months up to 10 years. If you project for great businesses, then nothing would be better than fixed loans. You can also be useful yourselves of large who can be, prone to the stockholders' equity available on your house. Obviously, you will have to pawn your house to obtain low interest rate of interest and maximum duration of time for monthly refundings minimum. Thus make a wise decision while choosing finances.To save make the suitable use of finances. Keep the suitable account of the exit and contribution for each department. The wasting of the money on nondesired things should be avoided to the maximum.Subsistence of versed labour and skilful labour to make with your extension deals the top. It is the beginning of your new company, thus of the professionals and the hard interns of operation must be rented.Offers of introduction if it is the supermarket which you be opening or an exclusive store on the ancient pieces or of the gems and the jewels, it must open with a great blow and offers of introduction of attraction. To create the awakening your approach should be as captivating as can be.While securing personal personal loans to take a measure ahead to you take care to compare the prices to split the best businesses.... | | By: all credit loan. All about credit and loan. Always | | |
| | Tools for an Entrepreneurs tool box | | 2007-10-11 02:50:00 | | Over the next few days I will be giving a short introduction to specific tools for your toolbox, these may not be applicable now but they will be helpful when the "tough get's going", Today's tool, is an concept used in many large scale manufacturing organizations, but can be used just as well in your garage or workshop, office or personal life, Kaizen (改善, Japanese for "change for the better" or "improvement"; the English translation is "continuous improvement" or "continual improvement").In the context of this article, Kaizen refers to a workplace 'quality' strategy and is often associated with the Toyota Production System and related to various quality-control systems, including methods of W. Edwards Deming.Kaizen aims to eliminate waste (as defined by Joshua Isaac Walters "activities that add cost but do not add value"). It is often the case that this means "to take it apart and put back together in a better way." This is then followed by standardization of this 'better wa... | | By: Gordon Whyte's Blog of the daily challenges of an | | |
| | Do You Have the Entrepreneurs Qualities? | | 2007-09-24 12:05:00 | | Do You Have the Entrepreneurs Qualities?Wan Hashimhttp://www.success-workathome-business.com/It is a popular myth that if you start owning your own business then you are destined to fail unless you are an entrepreneur. This is untrue idea about starting your own business. There are certain skills about starting your own business that you can develop along the way. If you are interested in starting a business then you need to develop the following three entrepreneurs qualities: perseverance, thick skin, and ability to deal with failure. If you already have your own business, you might already have these qualities.PerseveranceAll things that you do which is successful must have a sense of perseverance in it. An analogy to describe perseverance is similar to you completing your school project. In order for you to be able to submit the final report of the project, you need to start learning several new concepts related to the project. You have to learn the new concept slowly but steady. If you just started doing some research on the new concept, then did not do anything else for the project, you are going to fail the project. But if you start the project and keep on progressing with the project, you are going to end up with a successful final product. Similarly in business, you need to keep updating yourself about your business until you get to the point of being successful.Thick SkinThe second quality that you need to have is a thick skin. In the business world, you are going to meet a number of business individuals that would like nothing better than to see you fail so that they can succeed. In business, it is a good practice to associate oneself with other business associates. What is not a good practice is to take anything negative they say completely to heart. If you start doing that, you will hang up your business for good just after several negative comments. It is a good practice to consider taking people's advice if it is constructive, but do not listen to any... | | By: Internet Based Work At Home Business' Blog | | |
| | Managing Change and the 90 Day rule for entrepreneurs | | 2007-08-02 07:19:13 | | Recently Global Consulting major Mckinsey interviewed ICICI bank's CEO K.V.Kamath.ICICI is India's largest private bank and in this interview Kamath illustrates how he heard about the 90day rule in silicon valley Now it is a common sight to see how there are herds of companies going after a same idea be it social networks,online video and so on Kamath tells how entrepreneurs in sillicon valley deals with it by using '90-day rule' .'90-day rule' is about how an entrepreneur starts off in Silicon Valley. He has to design a concept, build a product, test it and take to the market within 90 days otherwise he will be dead because 25 other people are thinking along the same lines.It is a dramatic story of how Kamath has transformed a slothful industrial lender into India's largest private bank which has now gone abroad in a big way and this story which is also a case study in Strategy at leading B-schools in India can be seen in this interview at Rediff... | | By: Marketing & technology in India | | |
| | Teaching Child Entrepreneurs- Not Just for Kids.. | | 2007-07-17 10:31:00 | | Forget space aliens and race cars, here's a game that gives kids skills they can use for the rest of thei lives. Hot Shot Business is a fast paced simulation game for budding entrepreneurs, where kids can open their own pet spa, skateboard factory or candy shop.Young business owners start marketing campaigns, change products, services, and prices, and most importantly, respond quickly to demanding customers and big news events. Do you have a Disney.com account? Log in to your account or create one today to do all this cool stuff in Hot Shot Business! Collect Badges earned by playing the game!Create your own personalized Hot Shot Business player profile, and view your friends' profiles!Unlock the special Opp City Tycoon business: Gateway Travel! View your complete business history and your all-time high scores!Access the Disney family of businesses* Registration is free!If you've ever wanted to explain to a your child what it is you do for a living this will not only explain it but also teach them.PS. It's not just for kids. I played it and thought it was pretty cool, but maybe I'm a kid at heart.Let me know what you think of it?
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| | Internet Entrepreneurs - webventurers.com | | 2007-06-30 00:03:09 | | The Internet has changed the way everyone thinks about business from theories, best practices, and the way business happens. In today’s world, if your company doesn’t have a blog you are living in the “old age” of business.
Due to the increase of the Internet and cheap domain hosting, almost anyone can put together a website and make themselves visible online.
There are many people who prosper online as well, making a name for themselves and their companies. There are countless stories of people becoming extremely wealthy online while having a lot of fun and that is where a new website called webventurers.com comes into play.
Webventurers.com is bringing you internet entrepreneur interviews and letting them tell you their stories of how they became successful online. Don’t think you can do it? Sure you can. This is an example of “standing on the shoulders of giants”. The interviewees will tell you the pitfalls and how to avoid them, and how you... | | By: CEOConsultant.com | | |
| | | Prosper Learning: Helping Entrepreneurs Reach Their Goals. | | 2007-05-12 02:51:28 | | You have the plan, resources available and the knowledge of the product or service you want to promote into a business. The problem is, where to begin? How do you take what you have and turn it into a successful business? This is where Prosper Learning can help. An Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award winner, the company was formed to assist individuals in the business world by offering educational and mentoring courses in stock market investments, e-commerce, real estate investment, publishing/marketing products and services, and personal finance.
I took note of the mentoring offered by Prosper Learning. My major in college was Business- and although I would have the background information-once I actually completed my degree, what would I do with it? I’ve had many ideas in the past, which I believe would have been good choices as start-up e-commerce businesses, only I had no idea where to turn to put all of my ideas into motion. By only mentoring a select f... | | By: Ramblings Of An Undisturbed Mind | | |
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