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You Inherited the Family Business… Now What?
The baton is passed; the papers are signed; the nameplate on the door has been changed. The family business is now your business, and what you do with it over the next few months will help chart its...
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10 Tips They Probably Won’t Teach you in Business School
1.) How to listen well Active listening is perhaps one of the most powerful things a person in sales or business can learn. It’s rare in this world that one seeks to understand before being...
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Why Startups No Longer need a Business Plan
The taxonomy of a startup has shifted over the past decade. As entrepreneurs leave behind traditional paradigms of “business” and foster an environment conducive to sustainable and equitable growth....
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How College Business Plan Competitions Can Help Your Career
College business plan competitions are widespread and are held in most areas at least once per year. Most people assume that business plan competitions are helpful only for undergraduate and MBA...
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Create a Bulletproof Mission Plan
In this exercise, you will work through a mock mission plan related to either your business or personal life — for example, to launch a new product, service, or venue, or to lose weight. Part 1:...
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10 Ways to Build a Booming Business in Less Than a Decade
There’s stiff competition out there for nearly every business, but you don’t have to wait half a lifetime to succeed with your startup. Done right, you can see major business success in just a few...
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Do You Really Need a Business Plan to Start Your Own Business?
Some people argue that, before you start your own business, you need to have a solid business plan. You need to have a mission, a strategy and quarterly plus annual objectives. You need to know...
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How to Use a Business Plan Template as a Resume Writing Tactic
Young professionals, with an entrepreneurial mindset, like us, should take advantage of traditional business management tools as tactics in our career planning strategy. I believe professionals should...
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So You Have a Business Plan … Now What’s Your BHAG? (Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal)
You. Yeah, you. The young entrepreneur with the dream – and the business plan – to jump start your start-up. While the current business climate offers a wealth of opportunities to the young and...
View ArticleHow I Pitched Mark Cuban My Business Idea Without Ever Going on ‘Shark Tank’
Back in late 2011, I got the opportunity to pitch Mark Cuban. I was just a student at the time, at Howard University, and cofounder of a company — no longer existent — called My College Hustle, a...
View ArticleStart Your Business Guide: 20 Questions to Know About Your Business
Far to often when a new entrepreneur is asked questions about their business they stutter, hesitate, and struggle their way through their answers. This is not because they have a bad idea or have no...
View ArticleStart Your Business Guide: Executive Summary Template
Creating your executive summary means taking your idea and putting it into a nicely formatted, easy to read one page document that explains exactly what your business does and why it will succeed....
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Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. ~Pablo Picasso There are many...
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The Heart Of Your Business Plan
You are under 30, living the dream and officially an entrepreneur – a word you will embark to define on your own terms. You’ve identified the market gap and need which will make you a millionaire. Oh...
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How to Win a Business Plan Competition with Leena Chitnis of PiezoTouch
Today we had the chance to talk with Leena Chitnis who has recently won $25,000 in the Syracuse University business plan competition for her company PiezoTouch Inc. PiezoTouch will enable people to...
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Take a Weekend Idea. Build A Business
You can spend months working on a business plan, creating all types of projections and then spend even more time working on an actual product before launching it, only to find out your idea is rubbish....
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All Students: Enter to Win $70,000 in the Tulane Business Plan Competition
The Tulane Entrepreneurs Association Announces the Start of the 2012 Tulane Business Plan Competition and The Domain Companies New Orleans Entrepreneurial Challenge—$70,000 in Cash Prizes to be Awarded...
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Deadline March 29th: New York State Business Plan Competition
The College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering at the University at Albany, UAlbany’s School of Business, the Lally School of Management & Technology at Rensselaer, and Syracuse University will...
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NYS Business Plan Competition: Key Factor to Increasing Investment in New...
“In 2011, Governor Cuomo charged every region of our state with developing a strategic plan to prioritize the region’s economic development efforts and to capitalize on its strengths. Across the...
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Win or Lose: Business Plan Competitions Important to Building Operations Side...
The importance of business plan competitions cannot be overstated for cash-strapped start-ups. And in a year when the SBIR program could be in for a significant change that might make it difficult for...
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Top 5 Reasons Why Your Current Business Plan Isn’t Good Enough
I talk to a number of aspiring entrepreneurs every day, and a number of them have the same problem: They can’t get needed funding to start or grow their business. “There just isn’t any money out...
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S.I.N.- The Formula For AN Entrepreneur
What does S.I.N. have to do with being an entrepreneur? This formula serves as the basis for all new and growing endeavors. You don’t even have to confess this Sin. Sin translates to Seek Wisdom,...
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5 Crucial Steps for Starting Your Own Business
Starting a business takes a lot of courage, time and creativity. You have to take a big risk personally and financially. As you take the leap, make sure you are also crossing your t’s and dotting your...
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The First Five Steps to Starting Your Own Business
Despite the times of austerity and the threat of a triple dip recession, many new businesses are actually thriving, especially online. The ones that are succeeding are those that are flexible and able...
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Six Simple Questions To Guide Your Business Plans
While the key factor in winning is the ability to stick with your plan, it makes sense that you start with the best plan possible. Our experiences working with clients on strategic planning and...
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The Most Important Elements of Your Business Plan
Whether you’re training for a marathon or have a dream of taking your business public, one of the most essential tools to success is writing down your goals. A business plan can help visualize every...
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Top 10 Business Plan Mistakes to Avoid
Getting a new business off the ground is never easy. Increase your chances of success by avoiding these common business plan mistakes. 1. Giving top-down financial projections Don’t base your entire...
View Article4 Ways Businesses Are Playing to Their Strengths During the Pandemic
The COVID-19 crisis has transformed the business world in just a few months, leaving few companies unaffected. While different organizations have adopted different ways of coping with the economic...
View ArticleTop Tips for Writing a Business Plan for Investors or Banks
If you are in the midst of getting investors on board for your next project or even a startup, then you need to write a business plan. While you may not be a writer yourself, knowing the ins and outs...
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