Wednesday, September 17, 2014

20 businesses you can start tomorrow and earn a fortune!

Businesses You Can Start Tomorrow

Startup Costs: Between $5,000 and $15,000

Entrepreneurship is hard, but it is not only for the well-heeled and overly educated. Have some common sense and plenty of determination? There are plenty of businesses you can start on a shoestring budget and without specialized skills or a fancy degree. Here are 20, some of them quirkier than others, care of Richard Walsh, author of The Start Your Own Business Bible, published in June 2011 by Adams Business, a division of F+W Media. For each we give:

Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money

Size Up Your Investors Before Accepting Their Money 

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Even though the color of their money is always green, all startup investors are not the same. Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels.  Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner...

Entrepreneurial Leadership Can Save Any Business

Entrepreneurial Leadership Can Save Any Business 


One of the realities of being an entrepreneur is that you have to keep learning and changing to survive. Everyone on the startup team knows there is no buffer, and no personal isolation from impact based on your job description that can save you. Thus everyone has to make sure they are focusing on what is important, and making leadership decisions to save the business.  That is what business leadership is all about.
Unfortunately, in mature companies, a larger and larger percentage of employees forget company survival and customers as the objectives, and focus only on their own personal gain. Risks to