It takes a lot of courage to leave the comfort of a high-paying job to follow your passion, especially when you're newly married and have a child on the way. Michael Kahan left his cushy job on Wall Street to launch Kahan Travel after 10 years in the finance industry.
Eager and enthusiastic entrepreneur with a dynamite concept seeks like-minded investor to provide funding for a mutually rewarding long-term working relationship...
I define bootstrapping as "pursuing success with limited resources and with the help of others." By limited resources I mean a shortage of money or knowledge. Here are some tips and ideas to help solve these shortfalls for small and wannabe entrepreneurial business owners.
The economy is fighting madly to recover. Yet many folks, especially business owners, are still suffering. Quite a few have delinquent income tax liabilities. If the amount you owe is staggeringly unmanageable, you might believe you'll never be able to repay the debt. You fear liens, levies and knocks on the door.
If you're looking to ink a deal with a really wealthy individual (there are plenty of wealthy women, but I'll make this example male, because that's the universal pronoun), here are five rules to put you way ahead of your competition:
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Every tenant picks up the newspapers and reads that landlords are underwater on many of their buildings as vacancy rates increase and rental rates decrease. Smart tenants will find out they cannot outsmart or finesse their landlords.
One of the trends highlighted in this news coverage is the natural increase in office and retail vacancy rates that accompanies a recession. Consumers slow spending, as a result businesses contract, and their needs for space contracts as well. It's a bad time for landlords for sure, but it's a potentially life-altering opportunity for business owners.
With the use of social media incontrovertibly on the rise, it's no surprise that more and more businesses are jumping aboard to become "social businesses." Yet for all the benefits of going social, there is a consideration most businesses completely miss: keeping brand control online.
The Federal Trade Commission recently revised its policy on the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials, extended now to account for social media platforms such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter.