How to Start a Business Consulting Firm
Consulting exists because an individual or a firm offers expertise in a field that another individual or organization is not able to provide, solve, or achieve for itself. Clients hire…
Keeping Your Minimum Viable Product Lean and Simple
“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never…
How to Become a Residential Real Estate Developer
A residential real estate developer may be an entrepreneur or an established business. The developer envisions a residential real estate project and then takes it from a vision to paper…
How to Start a Restaurant
As we’ve mentioned previously, we write many business plans for restaurant entrepreneurs. And, of course, we’ve published several blog posts on the subject. In 2014, we explained that the operational…
How to Start a Hemp Business
Starting a hemp business is easy. Some websites and articles say you can do it with as little as $1,000! However, that might be overly optimistic. This post will walk…
How to Start a Food Truck Business
In 2012, when we were just beginning to understand the popularity of food trucks, we wrote a blog post titled Food Trucks are Hot! The post discussed the increasing demand…
Applying the Business Model Canvas to Personal Growth
“The future isn’t what it used to be,” quipped Yogi Berra famously. The same can be said about business models, and how we deal with the fundamental processes of value…
Is Startup Life Right for You?
Currently, there is no professional certification or standardized testing, as there is for accountants and lawyers, to see if you are ready to tackle the rigors of starting a new…
How Can Founders Prepare for Crisis?
Startups are fun adventures – that is, until the pressures of a cash flow crisis, or a manufacturing quality problem, or a major customer satisfaction problem hits. Even with all…
Some Things in Business Never Change
In this era of constant evolution, I usually find myself writing about what has changed. Yet I believe that periodically it pays to reflect on what hasn’t changed in business,…