A business’s online presence, regardless of industry, can have a massive impact on its success. In this day and age, some businesses still don’t realize that a majority of their customers will visit their website before making a purchase.
How we shop and what we buy is changing. Store closures of established department stores or the sudden successes of new direct to consumer brands often feature in the press, but less attention has been paid to what lies under the hood.
There is no single challenge that can stop passionate entrepreneurs from successfully launching a startup. This is not motivational; it is a fact. Here are 5 big challenges faced by most entrepreneurs in the early stages, why anyone can overcome them and how.
The words “look and feel” have probably come up in conversation as you navigate how to best brand your business or startup. What you actually understand those words to mean is instrumental to how you approach creating the visual footprint for your business.
Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were killed on Sunday morning in Calabasas, California, in a helicopter crash that also claimed the lives of the seven others onboard, according to reports Sunday evening in this developing story. Bryant was 41 and is survived by his wife, Vanessa, and his three other daughters.
Entrepreneurship is not for everyone. While the reward of building a business can be incredible, the path to success is fraught with challenges and pitfalls. Building a profitable organization from the ground up is something that takes an intrinsic drive and motivation to build teams, identify and solve problems, and, ultimately, create positive change.
We’ve all got our own favorite productivity tools, tips, and tricks that help us organize our task lists, assign projects, and manage deliverables. Today, there are more project management and productivity apps and software programs geared toward business owners than ever.
What do top entrepreneurs have in common? Over the past two years, I’ve interviewed entrepreneurs across a wide variety of disciplines. While it’s difficult to find a single characteristic uniting them, several traits emerged as habits that any of us can cultivate.
Can you unleash your smart inner-entrepreneur and acquire the skills to grow? Or should you seek venture capital (VC) and hope that the VCs and their hired CEO can do the job, build your venture, and make you rich?
Although “MVP” used to be only a sports term (most valuable player), it’s taken on new life as part of the lexicon of entrepreneurs getting something new off the ground. But what exactly is an MVP (minimally viable product)?