If you have a business license and a tax ID number and want to get your hands on products long before they make it to the retail segment, check out these 10 resources (listed in no particular order). These are free resources, with no membership fees or set-up costs: Please email me [email protected] if […]
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→ friendlyfolks.com Friendly Folks, Inc. was founded nine years ago and since then has been helping people achieve success with their own personalized gift business. Using your home computer and a color inkjet printer you can create adorable personalized gifts — such as personalized t-shirts, framed prints, key chains, magnets, and mousepads. Customers can order
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Finish better than your beginnings All education is self-education Seek first to manage yourself, then to manage others Influence is more important than victory Work hard and watch your costs Everybody wants to appear reasonable Create your own set of values to guide your actions Incentive is everything! Create solutions for seemingly impossible problems Become
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In his recent Newbiz column, Samuel Fromartz examines some of the findings in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. On totally original ideas: [Only] 27 percent of [startups] were pursuing an idea that was “not new to any customer.” Start-ups considered most innovative — pursuing an idea “new to all” in a market with “no competitors” —
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NY Times: Soon after David Riedel lost his job two years ago as an equity analyst at Salomon Smith Barney in a wave of layoffs on Wall Street, his entrepreneurial juices kicked in. He knew that more investors, in the wake of a research scandal, were looking for advice at small, independent research firms with
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Mark Cuban: “My name is Mark Cuban. I am the Benefactor.” ABC: “What would you do for a million dollars? Billionaire businessman and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is about to find out because he is “The Benefactor,” and he’s set to give away a million bucks to a complete stranger. Why has he agreed
An Entrepreneur’s Life: “If you run a business with employees, every single one of ’em who interacts with clients/customers/end-users needs to understand what is and what is not acceptable. We raise people defiant nowadays, so you have to explain why and what’s in it for them. Oh, and let’s face it… bribes work.”
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Inc: “Buying a business, it turns out, isn’t all that different from buying a house. If we’re shopping for a house, we can easily find out such helpful information as what the median sales price is in the neighborhood, what houses are going for on a square-foot basis, and what comparable homes cost. This table
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Dan Sherman: “Don’t restrict yourself to creating value for your customer directly related to your service or product.”
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