As an entrepreneur, your job is to trade valuable skills and time for someone else’s money. If you don’t provide value, you don’t win the business. Positioning yourself to win revenue from a client doesn’t require a hefty enterprise behind you. You can start a business that is small, lean, and doesn’t require a lot of money to start. You…
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Articles by Kevin Mulligan
When you are starting a side business or new company, it is easy to let the new venture soak up every waking hour. In our hearts we know failure is not an option. Our income is dependent on the success of the business. Our family is depending on us. Our friends are cheering us on and it would be disappointing…
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Startups have a lore about them that makes everything seem wonderful. Jeans and flip flops. Dogs in the office. Setting your own schedule. Stock options and getting rich with an IPO (if everything goes according to plan). But there is the flip side of startups that many people miss. The long hours of underpaid (or unpaid) work that is done…
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Running and growing your business is a time-consuming effort that saps you mentally and physically. You might think taking time out of your busy week to read would fall so low on the list of priorities that you would never do any reading at all! However, great business leaders know that one of the tasks you can get the greatest boost…
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A majority of the time a successful business isn’t standing solely on the founder’s back. Strong businesses may start that way, but over time they grow to be a mix of not only the product or service offered, but the individuals working to deliver that product or service. Hiring the best talent possible does not guarantee your start up’s success,…
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As a small business, it can be exciting to dream of having thousands of “friends” on Facebook driving lots of extra traffic to your website or retail locations. But getting to this point of success won’t happen overnight. You will need to invest in your social media efforts. As you spend money in this area, be sure to pick up…
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Investing in a franchise can be a smart way to start a business. Starting a company on your own without any assistance is extremely difficult. Not only do you need market knowledge, but you need to understand how to actually operate and finance your company. Running your books, hiring and managing employees, and finding customers isn’t easy to do. When…
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The movie Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt and based off the infamous Michael Lewis book of the same title, provides viewers with a glimpse into the unorthodox strategy a financially downtrodden baseball team used to rebuild the franchise and see success. Can business lessons be extracted from the film to help you grow your company? The Moneyball Story In the early 2000s…
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