Jason Cohen is an angel investor and the founder of Smart Bear Software. Here is his look at testing your business idea. I recently reviewed hundreds of startup pitches at Capital Factory, an early stage accelerator program for tech startups. Of those, almost none had unearthed 10 people willing to say, “If you build this […]
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photo credit: Marcin Wichary Today there are many businesses big and small who are in need of some advice and help in several different sectors of their company. Most of these businesses go on to spend money they really don’t have in order to hire a consultant to come in and fix their business. Today
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GetEntrepreneurial.com: In the business world, it pays to listen and know how to ask the right questions. Miscommunication and misunderstanding can lead to problems… unhappy customers, lost sales, excess inventory, misunderstood instructions, shoddy work, and disgruntled employees … all influencing your company’s bottom line. A good listener can build trust, empathy, and understanding by practicing
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Have you ever felt like you are stuck in a rut in your life? Fast Company believes you can change that by simply harvesting the ideas already swimming in your head. A sunriser gives out energy, a sunsetter sucks it away. A sunriser goes through life open to the idea that the best may still
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The following is a guest post by Kyle James. Online companies that have high fixed costs, especially when those fixed costs are associated with office equipment, inventory, warehousing, and high distribution costs have the hardest time making money. A company that fit into this category was WebVan, an online grocery delivery service that went bankrupt
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There are Tupperware parties and Mary Kay parties. Men may be legally allowed to attend such parties but they never do, because Tupperware is plastic bowls and Mary Kay is lipstick. But now, thanks to a new Minnesota company, there are sales parties for guys, with barbecue gear as the merchandise, reports The San Francisco
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Chicago-based Life Tokens, lets consumers express their emotions via coded tokens that are sent anonymously through the mail, and that link to personal online messages, reports trendspotter Springwise. Each token features a graphic on the front that encapsulates a specific emotion, and a 6-digit code on the back that, when entered by the recipient on
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eNewsChannels: Ohio Restaurant Recruiters, a restaurant manager recruiting firm in Ohio and Pennsylvania, announced this week that Covelli Enterprises, the largest franchisee of Panera Bread and O’Charley’s, has entrusted them with its restaurant management recruitment needs. Covelli Enterprises has more than 200 Panera bakery-cafe concepts; 27 more are scheduled to open over the next 18
Fast Casual: Corner Bakery Café has added Nick Booras and Gregg Koffler as directors of franchise sales to support the brand’s national expansion efforts. Booras and Koffler are the latest to join the company’s growing development sales team to help the chain double its footprint in the U.S. throughout the next four years. Earlier this
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