This graphic was inspired by this quote from Jeanette Mulvey, managing editor of BusinessNewsDaily: Being an entrepreneur is almost never about the business you’re in. So, you like cupcakes. Great. That doesn’t necessarily mean you should open a bakery – unless you like working early in the morning, managing lots of people and figuring out […]
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Forbes: A Los Angeles-based company called Kidworth is focused on doing just that—exposing young people to the business world by introducing them to how the startup game is played in the hope of creating young entrepreneurs with the basic skills to turn their creativity into a business. Kidworth claims to be able to allow kids
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The following is a guest post by Amy Knapp. In the last few weeks I’ve seen a worrisome number of articles about the perils of working for yourself. Being an entrepreneur is indeed full of unique challenges that are very different from the challenges of a nine-to-five job in someone else’s company. There will be
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Business Insider: But are young people interested in starting their businesses for the right reasons—or the wrong ones? A new study by Harris Interactive for ASQ (PDF), which polled teens about their attitudes toward careers and study, paints a worrisome picture. The teens, ranging from 6th to 12th graders, believed studying science, technology, engineering and
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The Wall Street Journal: The commercial success of many high-profile Chinese entrepreneurs appears to have done little to encourage young Chinese college graduates to become their own boss. According to a recent report, only 1.6% of Chinese college graduates started businesses last year, essentially flat with the year before. The report showed that a large
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This graphic was inspired by this quote from Jeanette Mulvey, managing editor of BusinessNewsDaily: Being an entrepreneur is almost never about the business you’re in. So, you like cupcakes. Great. That doesn’t necessarily mean you should open a bakery – unless you like working early in the morning, managing lots of people and figuring out
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The Economic Times: The finding is part of Dell Women’s Global Entrepreneurship Study conducted across 450 women entrepreneurs from US, UK and India commissioned by Dell. It reveals that 71 per cent of woman entrepreneurs in India have a branding in market for their businesses and eight in every 10 woman entrepreneurs are hiring which
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The following is a guest post by Cristian Dorobantescu of the Small Business Entrepreneur Blog from Romania. Every couple of weeks I see lists of “entrepreneurship myths†– it seems like it’s a never ending story – some are fueling them and the others are debunking them. There is one myth in particular that really
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Duane Zobrist writing for Fast Company: The struggling economy has turned up the volume of the voice inside the heads of potential business owners that says, “What do I have to lose?” The excuse of job security given by employees as the reason they never started a business has been disproved by the current recession.
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Deseret News: Take two cups of creativity, add a cup of practical thinking and season the mix with market savvy. That’s the recipe for making a Mormon entrepreneur. In recent years, clever Mormon “marketeers” have pitched everything from having your family history printed on a set of brass plates (complete with rings) to action figures
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