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Get Your Business Plan Ready for Business Start Up Weekend Event on Sept. 21-23rd

Get Your Business Plan Ready for  Business Start Up Weekend Event on Sept. 21-23rd

This is for the entrepreneur who is ready to make some waves and move forward in their dreams of owning or starting a business.

It only takes one decision to make when it comes to starting a business: You have to take the proper steps to achieve your business goals and get started on the right note.

Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit 2012: Inspiring New and Existing Business Owners

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 Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit 2012  [VIDEOS]

If you missed the Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit 2012 this year, watch the highlights and learn from the best how to present your business and go after what you need for its development.

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Starting a Business? Here’s 7 Financial Tips For Your Success

Starting a Business? Here’s 7 Financial Tips For Your Success

You will need all of the guidelines you can get when it comes to starting a business today. The following 7 guidelines are necessary and crucial to financially securing your business long before you open the doors.

  1. Do plan to start with your own money, not someone else’s. The money to start your business will come from your right or left pocket. In fact, there are three pools of money you should have before your start a business: an emergency savings account, enough budget to go from 12 to 24 months without a paycheck, and the first year of operating capital to run your business.

Capital Sources Through Crowdfunding May Be The Way For New Businesses, Say Report

Capital Sources through Crowdfunding May Be The Way For New Businesess, Say Report

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Capital Sources Through Crowdfunding May Be The Way For New Businesses, Say Report

 

The Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act is helping those with startups a way to get funds from fresh capital sources:

Right now, all sorts of nonprofit causes and entertainment projects can receive cash donations from ordinary people through crowdfunding websites such as IndieGoGo.com, KickStarter.com, and RocketHub.com. But because of securities laws intended to prevent fraud, for-profit businesses aren’t legally allowed to raise funds from large numbers of donors to finance their ventures without first registering with the Securities and Exchange Commission or complying with restrictive SEC regulations.

What Not To Do When Launching a Startup Business, From A Entrepreneurial Perspective

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What Not To Do When Launching a Start Up Business, From A Entrepreneurial Perspective

We can always find ideas, tips and advice on what to do when launching a start up but how many people find out beforehand what not to do? Well, we have found some really useful information that every business owner needs to know before they get started. The importance of knowing what not to do when launching a start up, will make all the difference in how successful the business will initially grow.

Running a Successful Non Profit with These 10 Tips

If you want to be successful and helpful at the causes that matter to you, you have have to ensure that your non-profit organization have three attributes:

  • It must be effective
  • It must be efficient and 
  • It must achieve its goals

While keeping those in mind, here are ten revised tips to making it happen:

1. Have a clear vision, mission statement, theory of change, and performance metrics.

If you can’t clearly define (in eight words or less) the outcome you want to create for the world, you aren’t focused enough. Once you have your goal, your organization needs to be very clear regarding how you will specifically achieve your goals.

How to Successfully Launch a Start Up While Still on Your Day Job

 How to Successfully Launch a Start Up While Still on Your Day Job

You may be asking: ‘Can this really be done?’ Yes! It can be done successfully. The way in which you juggle your day job and your start up can create some challenges but it is very possible. While you may have the passion for your new business, you will need to use your self discipline and strategic skills to make it work.

 

Business Tip: How You Can Turn a Little Money Into Millions for Your Business?

 How You Can Turn $1,000 Into $1 Million with Your Business

In the following article, it describes how a few businesses were interviewed and how they turned a small amount of money into a serious cash flow with their own businesses. Are you put for the challenge and the reward?

Read below about a how these people did it:

Many of these individuals started businesses with less than $1,000 and are now earning more than $1 million per year in revenue. All of them bootstrapped their own business with no outside cash and a minimal capital investment from their own bank account. Here is a brief primer on bootstrapping a business.

How to Build a Successful Business Start Up: First Step is to Write a Business Plan

 The First Step to a Successful Business: Writing a Business Plan

 

The advice below comes comes from the Founder and CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos.

Jeff Bezos is an American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, Inc., an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products. Under his guidance, Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and the model for Internet sales. -Wikipedia

Hewlett Packard To Lay Off Nearly 27,000 Jobs Due to Declining Profits

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Hewlett Packard To Lay Off Nearly 27,000 Jobs Due to Declining Profits

We are always sad to hear of job losses still happening in our country. Some of the biggest and most powerful companies are finding themselves with no choices but to cut jobs. America has not been pressing the issue because our economy is better than the start of the recession in 2008, but many businesses are still struggling and it continues to effect American families and our economy.

Report from Reuters.com: