A Glimpse Inside NYC’s Startup Scene – youngentrepreneur.com In the years since the financial crisis, New York has become a startup magnet. Here’s a look at a diverse mix of Gotham entrepreneurs. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » When and How to Lease Equipment – entrepreneur.com The pros and cons of leasing office equipment for your business. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » Business Planning Tools – businessknowhow.com A business plan will help you get your business off on the right foot. Continue Reading On businessknowhow.com »
Crowd-funding Platform Connects Entrepreneurs With Consumer-Product Giants – youngentrepreneur.com A San Francisco-based crowd-funding site draws the eyes and ears of multinational companies General Mills and Procter & Gamble. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » Web Startup Will Find the Best Parking Spot – entrepreneur.com Ben Sann was a junior in high school when he came up with an idea for a website that would post the rates of parking garages all over New York. BestParking.com has now grown to include six cities. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » The Essential Elements of Building an E-Commerce Website – entrepreneur.com From assessing your customer’s...
Tony Hawk: I Learned to Say 'No' – inc.com It’s easy to lose focus when you can’t turn down a business opportunity. Here’s how Tony Hawk learned the value of sticking with what you know.Tony Hawk knows that when you’re hurtling down a halfpipe into an aerial spin, losing focus could get you seriously hurt. After co-founding a skateboard company in 1991, Hawk learned that distractions in the business world can be equally dangerous… Continue Reading On inc.com » Advertisement: – inc.com Continue Reading On inc.com » A Look Inside NYC's Entrepreneurial Landscape – entrepreneur.com A new exhibit at New...
Business schools are good at teaching certain things to students but do not effectively teach students about business intelligence. While that is difficult to do, there are benefits to doing so that may significantly improve the attractiveness of the student to potential employers. Often times, this real-life experience is also more interesting to students and can develop their understanding of the business world. Business intelligence is an important concept to understand and learn how to apply. More often than not, schools are designed around preparing individuals for tests and not for their careers. Memorization is rewarded while real learning is...
Business intelligence is a set of theories and practices that can analyze what is happening in the business world, providing and enhancing opportunities. It is a structure for taking raw data and finding meaning in it through analyses and the use of technology to illustrate what the numbers are saying. However, even with the best technology and software at a person’s disposal, individuals still need to have the proper business intelligence courses under their belts in order to follow the process and glean real, meaningful data from it. Business Intelligence Courses There are a variety of different ways that students...
How to Find a Good Lawyer – entrepreneur.com What qualities entrepreneurs should look for in when hiring an attorney. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » Hunting for Business Ideas? Consider Looking at These 8 Hot Industries – youngentrepreneur.com There may be a lot of economic uncertainty, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bad time to launch a business. For a few business ideas, take a spin through this list of eight online industries expected to see healthy U.S. … Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » How Informational Meetings Can Expand Your Network and Influence – youngentrepreneur.com Want to network and bone up...
6 Tips for Crafting a Killer Business Name – youngentrepreneur.com Social entrepreneur and educator Steve Mariotti on why naming your business is one of the most important decisions you’ll make. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » Going Overseas? Don't Leave Home Without This App – inc.com A number of apps promise to translate text over the Web. But a new one goes a step further: It puts live interpreters only a click away.Online translation services, such as Google Translate, have a come a long way. Even so, when you’re traveling and get into a pickle or working with international customers and...
In today’s fast paced world, it’s hard to capture people’s attention. It seems as though people’s attention spans have gotten shorter, but the truth is that there is just too much information out there. Getting your business noticed by the right demographic isn’t rocket science, but it does take a little creativity. Even the most minuscule misstep, like making a sign or advertisement too wordy, can mean getting customers or not. In the 21st century, it’s survival of the fittest for many small, medium and even large businesses. The question then becomes, how do I maximize profits without going all...
Investment is a risky game, as every player should know. There can be no gain without the risk of a loss, and occasionally those losses will be coming your way. We all do our best to minimize our losses, but we can’t control everything. Investment loss can deal a serious blow to your confidence as well as your portfolio, but there are a few things you can do to better handle your bad luck. Stay Active A sudden investment loss can be very jarring, and it is often enough to shock investors into inactivity. This is something that should be...
When it comes to business, there are a few critical mistakes that can cost you valuable contacts and relationships. Simple things that you may do around your friends are serious faux pas in the workplace. Here’s a look at a few major business etiquette mishaps to avoid. Texting On the Sly During a Business Meeting If you’re in a meeting—whether you’re leading it or merely a sit-in—devote your full attention to the conversation. Answering a phone call, or even texting under the table, may offend clients and co-workers. Using Text-Speak in a Formal Email It’s easy to get in the...
Small businesses are notoriously behind the curve when it comes to extra cash flow that can be devoted to marketing efforts. And yet, you have to spend money to make money, even if you don’t happen to be a mega corporation (especially if you’re not a well-known brand, in fact). If nobody knows you exist you’re not going to get far in business, so spreading your name, growing your brand, and convincing consumers that you’re better than the competition is a must if you want your small business to survive and flourish. Unfortunately, you can’t squeeze blood from a stone,...
Whether you are a small start-up with just a handful of employees, or a large enterprise, your employees matter; and so does their privacy. Many small businesses, especially fledgling start-ups, sometimes fail to consider the network security and of securing their intranet or HR systems. Just in the same way as protecting online shoppers from credit card fraud, companies need to protect your employees from unscrupulous colleagues. Your HR systems contain sensitive information such as salaries and bank details; if it’s web-based, you absolutely must have HTTP Secure. Thankfully with SSL renewal being so simple these days, this can be...
If a person owns a car, there is likely to come a time when they wish to sell it. This is usually an inescapable element of motoring. Now we are well into the 21st century, most things can be accomplished while sitting comfortably in an armchair, and selling a car is one. Legions of websites sell cars, although larger ones ask for a fee. Vast numbers of people pass through eBay.com and Craigslist, and the latter is free. EBay is sometimes used to sell objects as expensive as a Holden Captivia, and as you would discover from reading a Holden...
Mortgages — the infamous Jenna Marbles’ YouTube page once featured a song called “I Hate Being a Grownup,” in which one of the earlier verses equated knowing how a mortgage worked with being a wizard. Fortunately, Jenna was wrong, and anyone can in fact figure mortgages out with a little bit of work and a simple tool; the mortgage calculator. Your typical mortgage calculator takes just a few bits of data — the mortgage’s principle (i.e. the amount you owe on the home after your down payment), the amortization period (i.e. the duration of the mortgage; most often 30 years),...
As business becomes increasingly competitive the whole idea of corporate entertainment is becoming more important than ever. Taking good care of clients and building a good ‘out of work’ relationship with them is almost as essential as delivering good work. If you’ve been put in charge of corporate entertainment for a big client then here are just a couple of things to bear in mind before you start organizing an event. Firstly, like any other project, it’s really important to do your research and find out as much as you can about what your client likes and doesn’t like. There’s no point organizing what...
Creating a well endowed business organization usually streams from the single handed devotion, dedication and futuristic vision of an entrepreneur mind. While setting up a business organization based on specific skill sets or niche markets is one thing, to sustain the success of the business in the years to follow is quite another. A number of entrepreneurs armed with business plans and adequate funding jump into the untested waters and only some are able to survive the strenuous flow. Entrepreneurship is not something that a person is intrinsically born with but it can be developed over the years by keeping...
A lot of businessmen and young entrepreneurs today struggle to make their break in whatever business they choose to venture on. The saddest part in this is that they’ve only tasted the first part and get burned out so easily that they think it isn’t for them at all. Although the type of business venture has a great impact as to where you will be going the next year or so, the fact of the matter is, it really isn’t the business that’s wrong, it’s how you go about it. There are a lot of principles that every business minded...
Finding something that not only makes communication with employees, clients and investors easier but also saves you money might seem impossible. However, Powwow now Video Conferencing can do that for a very reasonable price, but why does your company need it, and what are its advantages? Here are some reasons why this is the case: • It saves time – to arrange a meeting with a client or potential investor, it may involve hours of travel for you or them, but a video conference call can be set up in less than a few minutes, done from anywhere in the...
A lot of people know that successful businessmen and big time investors arose from hard work and wise decision making. But what is this business automation or investing automation that financial experts and hard working businessmen are pushing and talking about? Find out what automation in business and investing means and why people are better off with it than without it. The Concept Of Being On Auto-Pilot To make it easier for beginners and starting out businessmen to understand how automation in investing and business works, imagine a passenger plane up thousands of feet above the clouds. Now, it is...
