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6 Ways to Kill Your Startup
Sometimes the best way to learn how to do something is to understand how NOT to do something—to think of things in reverse. Ben Stein (of Ferris Bueller fame) achieved this with great effect with his book, How to Ruin Your Life. Buried in the book’s tongue-in-cheek humor and masked by its sardonic tone were some life lessons that I’ve [...]
Why Should Your Business Care About Social Responsibility?
Join us in Miami, Chicago or Denver for our Accelerate Your Business event series kicking off in February. Discover solutions to optimize team performance, improve company productivity, and position your business for continued success. See dates and details » It’s 2016, and the times, they are a-changin’. So is the way we do business and [...]
What 11 Successful People Did for Their First Jobs — and What They Were Paid
Everyone has to start somewhere. From making paper deliveries to selling tuxedos, the first jobs these 11 successful people shared with Business Insider weren’t always the most glamorous. Read on to see where CEOs, bestselling authors, and self-made millionaires started, and how much their first jobs paid: Farnoosh Torabi worked as [...]
Why Brick and Mortar Is Here to Stay
Join us in Miami, Chicago or Denver for our Accelerate Your Business event series kicking off in February. Discover solutions to optimize team performance, improve company productivity, and position your business for continued success. See dates and details » We live in a digital world, where technology is more pervasive and becomes a [...]
Stay Positive With Stacia Pierce
For the person aiming for success, award winning life and career coach, Stacia Pierce shares her insight on self sabotaging thoughts that you must avoid thinking in order to succeed. Go For Your Dreams “When you decide to go after your dreams, many things will pop up in your life…all kinds of resistance may show up and give you plenty of [...]
Chalkboard Wall for Your Child's Room
Children’s bedrooms are areas of the home where you can truly let your creativity take over. However, while you could transform this space into a dream come true for your kids, many kids’ bedrooms unfortunately are rather dull and boring. This simple, affordable, do-it-yourself project can be just the flare of improvement [...]
The Power of a Practical App Over Building a Unicorn
If you don’t know by now, I have an infatuation with startups. I enjoy everything that comes with having a startup and getting to know the teams that work for them. Inspiration presents itself to me every day through hearing and getting to meet the people behind these innovative ideas. I especially enjoy hearing about companies who’ve [...]
Gag Gift Empire Earns $100 Million
Gag gifts and fun products catch on with consumers. Jonah White is the founder of Billy Bob Teeth and CEO of the multi-million dollar gag gift empire, redneck- approved Billy Bob line. After taking the Halloween and costume industries by storm and building an empire based on his own invention of gag gift fake redneck buck teeth, Jonah [...]
15 Ways to Slash Start-Up Costs in Your Home Business
Any Business’ Start-Up Costs Can be Minimized Using Economical Strategies and Creative Financing Many people wish they could start a home business, but believe the costs are too prohibitive. However, as you will read in this feature, there are numerous home ventures that are relatively inexpensive to set up. Generally, businesses with [...]
Why Small Business Failure Rates are Declining
Hidden in much of the gloomy news about small business in recent years is an important positive statistic: business failure rates are in a long-term decline. The rate at which American employers go under has fallen by 30 percent since 1977. Sure, the trend is far from perfectly linear. Business failure rates rise in recessions and [...]