Off to the Races
Earlier this year, I wrote a series - The Journey Parts 1-7 - focused on steps successful founders take to evolve from the idea stage to defining their business models, the…
How to Evolve from an Idea Person into a Founder
You've come up with an excellent solution to a big problem experienced by many. Your company starts today. You, by default, are its founder, but what got you to this…
How to Start a Home Care Business
The home care business in the United States will produce over $110 billion in revenue in 2021 and grow at an annualized rate of 5.1% to $140.8 billion by 2026…
How to Choose, Buy, and Operate a Successful Franchise
Decision 1: Should you Buy a Franchise or Go Indie? You may have read our post Franchise or Indie? where we considered the advantages of buying a franchise as well…
The Email Marketer’s Guide to Boosting Customer Retention
Email isn't dead. Although social media is the reigning medium for advertising, email is still going strong, often being leveraged as an incentive via social media efforts. The ROI for…
The Best States for Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Each year, we receive dozens of inquiries from foreign entrepreneurs who wish to launch a business in the United States. Most of the time these individuals know the type of…
3 Things To Include in Your Fleet Company Business Plan
When you are looking to start a business that includes owning and operating a fleet, there are a few industry-specific things that must go into your business plan. Even if…
How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist
Don't let your passion and motivation keep you from thinking like a rocket scientist. New entrepreneurs become enamored with their concept and assume the market exists, and customers will buy.…
How to Write a Restaurant Business Plan
My Step-by-Step Recipe for Success In the past two decades, we have written hundreds of business plans for restaurants, food trucks, ghost kitchens, bars, lounges, and other food & beverage…
Building a successful startup vs. summiting Mt. Everest… what are your odds?
To compare the physical challenges of climbing Mt. Everest to those in the startup world is absurd. Unfortunately for first-time founders, the non-physical difficulties are similar. Every frozen corpse on…