Deciding to become an entrepreneur requires a lot of commitment, skills, and the drive to succeed. However, there is no test that will tell you whether you will succeed or it is a bad idea. An education in business is not enough to guarantee your success. Forbes has put together a short list of “reality […]
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When you seek money from an investor, one of the first questions they will ask is, “How much of your own money, and friends and family, have you put into the new business?†If you are not willing to put your own money at risk to start or grow your business, there is no reason
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“You can’t turn a parked car.†This advice was given to my husband soon after he graduated college and he grappled with the question, “What now?†The idea is that you have to do something to figure out where to “steer†your life. You need to try new things, endure boring jobs, experiment with new
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If you’d like to give a gift to an entrepreneur this Christmas, you might like this opportunity from Gospel For Asia. It’s a Christian program that I support – perhaps there are other non-sectarian ones you may prefer. Maybe KickStart.org is a place you’d like to give. Some of the gifts are what you might
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According to Washington Post writer Michael S. Rosenwald paper is in peril. Hardcover book sales, down; e-book sales, soaring. Magazine and newspaper circulation are in decline. When was the last time you let your fingers do the walking in the Yellow Pages? But one paper tool is thriving. It is 3.5 inches long and 2
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Business Insider: What do entrepreneurs look like? Are they born or made? This is a hard question. I think the root cause of that difficulty is that we tend to conflate two different questions into one. First, what causes someone to attempt entrepreneurship instead of a more traditional career path? And second, what attributes make
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Tom Walker of NewsOK was recently speaking with Becky McCray, an entrepreneur and author who is working on a book about small town entrepreneurship. “Every kind of business exists in rural and small town Oklahoma,” McCray says. “Ponca City has an attitude and openness to entrepreneurship and is known for recruiting entrepreneurs. Woodward, a town
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When in the course of business as usual, it becomes necessary for one people to dissovle the economic bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Natures and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to
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photo credit: conner395 While today’s economy is slowly starting to get better and we are starting to see some small improvements on businesses and credit crunches, there are still many reasons to be leery of starting a business in this economic state for fear that we will go rapidly back under any day. Below are
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It takes a little bit of insanity, according to Tina Paparone writing for Reuters, to start a business but sometimes it just might send you over the edge too. How do you stay sane? After two years of being on the rollercoaster ride of entrepreneurship, these are the things I’ve found help me manage the
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