How to Test the Feasibility of Your Business Concept
Testing your idea is a lot of work, uncomfortable, and sometimes totally discouraging. This is why many of us try to tell ourselves it isn't necessary. However, if you do…
Why a Focused Business Plan Is the Fastest Road to Success
Are you an entrepreneur who isn't dreaming of dominating a market? Probably not. Usually, those of us who think of ourselves as entrepreneurs decided to do what we're doing because…
Investor Presentation Survival Guide
We've worked with a lot of businesses that are hoping to acquire investors. Throughout our experiences, we've learned that presenting to investors is usually quite daunting. While seeking funding and…
Ten Clues to Your Entrepreneurial Success
"Success leaves clues," says Tony Robbins. Perhaps that's what Robert Jordan, author of How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights, was thinking when he compiled interviews from 45 leading founders…
Achieve Your Goals by Measuring Your Efforts
I spent nine years running a US subsidiary of a Germany company. Their obsession (at least the group I worked for) with metrics gave me an appreciation for the power…
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…
Learning is an Entrepreneur’s Lifelong Job
Learning is at the core of entrepreneurial success. Not only do successful entrepreneurs know how to learn, they know what to learn, and they organize their work/life schedule so that…
Ghosts of Competitors Past
When selecting a location for your retail storefront, it's necessary to identify where the competition is. This Halloween season, we also want to know where the competition was. The desired…
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…