Archive for the 'Business Start Up' Category

Isabel Isidro tells how to compete with Starbucks… Be sure to read the whole article, not just these great “high points” 1. Start with a good business concept 2. Think big. 3. Think outside the box. (Example, “clustering” of stores.) 4. Partner Smart – like Barnes and Noble and Chapters in Canada. 5. Create a [...]

She originally just wanted to make money while staying at home with her children.  Today that ambition has created a business with $20 million in sales. It’s the One Minute Manicure. She got the business going with about $5,000 in cash in 1999. Her products are available online and through major retail outlets like J.C. Penney’s. In 1998, [...]

If you’re into Small Business Podcasts, you’ll love browsing the archives of the Great Big Small Business Show to hear the lastest information from the “trenches” of small business survival. Here’s there website… The Great Big Small Business Show

JumpUp.com by Intuit (the people behind Turbo Tax, etc.) is a social networking community that offers free business start up information AND the opportunity to network with business peers. You can visit the home page to see business profiles, you can check out interesting small business news. Visit the community page. There you can post [...]

Isabel M. Isidro’s blog pointed me to a great new (to me) resource on the web. It’s the work of Jeffrrey A. Robinson, Ph.D. on wealth building and entrepreneurship. I very much enjoyed checking out his website. There is a trend in economic development called “Community Wealth Building”. Frankly in many of the publications I [...]

The “common statistic” thrown around even by university professors, Wall Street Journal editors, etc. is that “80 to 90% of new businesses fail within a few years”. Jeff Cornwall and Rhonda Abrams say there’s just one problem with that statistic: it’s dead wrong. Credible studies show success rates five years out (the normal time line [...]

New York Times best selling authors Donald Trump and Robert “Rich Dad” Kiyosaki have teamed up to lend their names to a new book called Why We Want You To Be Rich – Two Men, One Message and they’ve already managed to peeve Wall Street. The average salary on Wall Street is $300,000 so they’re [...]

Too many people want to open a little storefront business. Not only do they not know if the business will work, they don’t know if it will start working before their life savings are gone. The solution? Start at home after checking to see if the business concept is workable and legitimate.   From Talequah Daily Press [...]

Muhammad Yunus got started in “Microlending” when – with money from his own wallet – he gave poor villagers loans of about 64 cents each. Though it sounded insignificant it enabled them to own the resources needed for their little family businesses. It didn’t make them rich but at the end of the day, it left them with [...]

Here’s what Cash Edge, Inc. did to attract offline businesses to patronize an online business according to Start Up Journal. Cash Edge offered online services to local financial institutions. Their efforts were based on the size of the fees involved so they took steps that differ from a website whose model is to make money [...]