Eager and enthusiastic entrepreneur with a dynamite concept seeks like-minded investor to provide funding for a mutually rewarding long-term working relationship...
Do you really know your banker? Many entrepreneurs who are asked this question respond by naming their bank, not their banker. As an entrepreneur, your business will benefit if you have a personal relationship with your banker.
AS part of a major launch to the UK marketplace, Alibaba.com, the world鈥檚 largest online meeting place for buyers and sellers, is backing eight product-savvy entrepreneurs with 拢1,000 each to create their own start up businesses on Alibaba.com.
Two Yorkshire entrepreneurs are preparing to battle it out in a international trading competition, which sees them launch their own companies.
When your employed friends talk about retirement, do you have a hard time relating? When you think about growing older, do you picture yourself happily still working? As an entrepreneur, you're not alone.
Change is hard to deal with. Just thinking of the word can conjure visceral reactions and the expectation of difficulties, resistance, anger, betrayal, shock and misfortune. But hesitating before you implement a change isn't necessarily bad. When problems occur in business, the most adaptable entrepreneurs jump at the opportunity to make a change. Occasionally, though, they leap too fast.
In past columns I have written about the opportunities created by our current economic climate. Regardless of where you fit on the spectrum of pessimist and optimist, you have to agree that business will never be the same as it was in the past. Too much has changed, and nothing more so than the awareness that entrepreneurs cannot take the future of their business or their current customers for granted.
Obama's new small-bank financing strategy may help, but entrepreneurs aren't holding their breath.
One of the best ways for an entrepreneur to get a leg up in this competitive climate and distinguish yourself from the rest of the pack is to tell your brand story.
Lounging by the beach isn't all it's cracked up to be--especially for entrepreneurs.