Do you know if there is a business plan competition at your school? If you search online for college business plan competitions you can see a whole big list of current business plans and competitions. In these competitions, you present a business plan or idea to judges, students, business people, alumni and [...]

Have you created any products to serve your customers? The great thing about products is that you can create something once, then sell it again and again as you share it with lots of new people.
“Make one, sell many” products include books, CDs and audio programs, computer software, art, inventions, games, and other forms of [...]

Are your considering a move into self-employment? Do you wish to add a small business of your own into your American Dream? Have you been looking around at various business opportunities and businesses that you might see yourself doing? Have you been slowing refining your options down and have now got the list down to [...]

With full time jobs becoming a thing of the past, more and more people are becoming entrepreneurs whether out of desire or necessity.
It requires a whole different set of skills, and a different outlook than being an employee, but by knowing where you are strong and where you are lacking, you are empowered to seek [...]

We business folk are in love with the idea of innovation. It’s a noun! It’s a verb! It’s something that only the best companies know how to do! Read the book!
No, I don’t believe innovation is unimportant. I do think the word is over-used, and I think people would rather attend expensive seminars in San [...]

How long should a business plan be? A business plan needs to be whatever length is required to excite the investor, prove that management truly understands the market, and detail the execution strategy. From surveys of investor needs, Growthink has found that 15 to 25 pages of text is the optimum length in which to [...]

There is a breed of person - an entrepreneur. And all across the world entrepreneurs and business minded individuals bring to the world there dreams, desires, and ideas and turn them into reality.
There exist many in the world today, who seek instant success, a flash flood of money to make them rich today. We see [...]

What is the primary difference between a venture capital business plan and a small business or other business plan? The answer is typically risk. Venture capital business plans have much more risk than other plans, and as a result, the potential rewards from success are much higher.
When preparing a plan for venture capitalists, it is [...]

The business of information is all around you. You might not even be aware of all the different forms of information that are being sold every minute of every day. All the self help books from dieting to spiritual enlightenment are an information product. Many CDs, DVDs and even TV shows are information products. The [...]

What happens when learn and learn and work and work and it seems as though you are going 2 steps forward and 1 back and sometimes 3 back?
Have you had an experience of knowing that you are supposed to be doing something and you just keep on persisting and plugging along and it seems as [...]