By Derek Lidow Money can’t buy happiness, but if you’re an entrepreneur it can buy you the next best thing: time. The students to whom I teach entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurs who seek my advice often ask, “How much time will I need to get a new business off the ground?” I tell them that […]
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Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart—anyone who’s tried to start their own business knows this. And being a female entrepreneur in Silicon Valley takes that truth to a whole other level. Being a woman CEO in a predominantly male environment has taught me so much about myself, and what it takes
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Starting a business entails understanding and dealing with many issues—legal, financing, sales and marketing, intellectual property protection, liability protection, human resources, and more. But interest in entrepreneurship is at an all-time high. And there have been spectacular success stories of early stage startups growing to be multi-billion-dollar companies, such as Uber, Facebook, WhatsApp, Airbnb, and many others.
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My heart is heavy after hearing that Anthony Bourdain, a man that inspired so many of us to eat better, travel well, and, in general, live life on our own terms, has left us. His impact resonates with millions of people (check out Twitter to see just a drop in the bucket of the respects
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By Martin Grunburg It’s every entrepreneur’s story: Everything—family, success, reputation—seems to rest on the success of your business. The daily onslaught of endless problems that go hand in hand with starting and running your own company can quickly overwhelm and stress out even the best of us. As a life-long entrepreneur, it’s easy to resort
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Like many entrepreneurs, I am also a mother. So, in a sense, I have two children: the human one and the business. They’re just two years apart (my son is 13 and the older of the two), and I’ve seen a lot of parallels in nurturing them both over the years. If I’d written this
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It’s true that some of the best things in life are free, and it’s especially true of some of the excellent educational resources available to entrepreneurs. Case in point: There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of free email newsletters that can help you learn whatever it is you need to know to help grow your business.
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A bad idea, gross mismanagement, or a poor work ethic can kill a startup before it’s out the gate. But there are other things founders often overlook that can kill their businesses–or severely hamper it–a little later down the road. The problem with these things is they become either difficult to fix or totally unfixable
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Is there such a thing as a right or wrong entity to form when first incorporating your business? Personally, I don’t think so as long as you do make it a point to incorporate. Many entrepreneurs will usually pick a sole proprietorship or a limited liability company (LLC) as their entity of choice. If you
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Since January, I’ve been hooked on 30-day exercise challenges. I’ve done yoga. Situps. Pushups. Now I’m working on planks. The benefit is that I can see a difference in my body. None of the daily challenges take that long, but they have a positive cumulative effect. I started wondering: what would a 30-day challenge look
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