(Jaqcueline Whitmore, entrepreneur.com, May 13, 2016) As any entrepreneur can attest, there is a lot to do when starting your own business. It’s easy to make mistakes in the early days but you can avoid some of them if you know what they are. Many start-up entrepreneurs fall into these all-too-common traps, which can bog down or block their business flow.
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8 Accountability Steps Lead To A Great Entrepreneur Circle with Right Arrow Icon
(Martin Zwilling, Startup Professionals Musings, May 7, 2016) Most business managers preach that the key to success is holding employees accountable for actions, but I have found that successful entrepreneurs are all about holding themselves accountable. They skip the blame and complain game, and make things happen despite major obstacles. As a startup investor, I view any evidence of a victim mentality as the kiss of death.
Don’t Get Down — Get Busy Circle with Right Arrow Icon
(Howard Tullman, Inc.com, April 26, 2016) If you running a startup you are going to hit a wall or screw up big time at some point. It goes with the territory. What doesn’t is letting yourself be stopped by it. Adversity doesn’t need any help. There are things you can do to right the ship– and the first is to right yourself.
Student starts his own medical device company Circle with Right Arrow Icon
(Josh Bender, The State News, April 24, 2016) Business freshman Bailey Paxton has been traveling the country since the summer before his senior year of high school, courting investors and networking with manufacturers to get his medical device company off the ground.
Testing the Waters: Broad Students Swim with Shark Tank Judges Circle with Right Arrow Icon
(Caroline Brooks, Eli Broad College of Business News, April 22, 2016) Pitching your best idea to two moguls whose combined net worth tops $150 million has a “sink or swim” feeling to it – especially going into the pitch knowing that those two moguls have achieved stardom by sinking countless other great ideas in their hit TV show, “Shark Tank.”
Earth Day and entrepreneurship can go hand in hand Circle with Right Arrow Icon
(Thomas Long, MSU Extension, April 19, 2016) Being environmentally aware can lead to entrepreneurial opportunities.
MSU Highlights New Campus-Born Technologies, Names Conquer Cohort Circle with Right Arrow Icon
The 10 Most Popular Startup Revenue Models Circle with Right Arrow Icon
(Joe Garza, Founder Institute, April 18, 2016) Regardless of how good your product, service, or app is, it’s only useful when you can get it into the hands of your target customers. But once you’ve got a finalized offering, selling it should be easy, right? Not really. There are countless factors that need to be taken into account when you set out to bring your product to market, like the industry you’re in, whether you’re selling a web-based product or physical hardware, the channels you use to attract your customers, etc.