Start-Ups
Business technology start-ups are increasingly attracting venture capital; find out how to take your idea and turn it into a business reality, and which technologies could make all the difference.
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Create a Referral Program to Grow Your IT Business
The primary mode of growth for most technology provider businesses is by good, old word of mouth. Yet, many businesses have not established an official referral program to capture as many referrals as possible. Check out this guide to find the proven best strategies for creating the perfect referral program...
Sponsored By ConnectWise
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Businesses are ready for a new approach to IT
Today’s businesses need simpler more efficient and flexible computing models. The IBM PureSystems family is comprised of platform systems and infrastructure systems that include built-in “patterns of expertise” to address complex business and operational tasks for smarter computing.
Sponsored By IBM
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A Business Plan Blueprint: Turn Your Dreams into Actionable Goals
Having a solid business plan is one of the best predictors of the future success of your company, but few business owners take time to sit down and actually create a business plan. Some believe their businesses are too small to need a plan; others believe they don’t have time...
Sponsored By ConnectWise
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BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 Migration Guide
Help employees make the most of business opportunities with the re-designed, re-engineered, re-invented BlackBerry® smartphone powered by BlackBerry® 10. This brief guide explains exactly how your organization can have business users transitioned in just a few quick steps. With a detailed FAQ section, it’s an ideal overview for IT administrators,...
Sponsored By BlackBerry
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Create a Referral Program to Grow Your IT Business
The primary mode of growth for most technology provider businesses is by good, old word of mouth. Yet, many businesses have not established an official referral program to capture as many referrals as possible. Check out this guide to find the proven best strategies for creating the perfect referral program...
Sponsored By ConnectWise
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Solutions for Today's Smart Business
Welcome to the IBM Midmarket Briefing Center, your virtual gateway to experts for midsize businesses. Here you will learn about breakthrough innovations, business insights and solutions that address your unique business needs to help you grow your business on a smarter planet.
Sponsored By IBM
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Start-Up Size Strategy and Risk Management: Impact on New Venture Performance
Start-up size is a key strategic decision for entrepreneurs. Should entrepreneurs invest sufficient resources to start up close to minimum efficient scale in order to optimize performance or should they seek to manage risk and start-up on a smaller scale? Previously, this strategic decision appeared to be one of simply...
Provided By EIM Business & Policy Research
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Re-envisioning the Data Management Landscape: Road Map to the Real-Time Business
"Real-time business" is a powerful metaphor for today’s forward-thinking companies. These are businesses that have the ability to use all relevant data when and wherever needed for up-to-the moment decision making. In today’s hyperconnected business environment, the demand for faster business cycles and deeper insight is driving a tremendous wave...
Provided By SAP
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Continuous data protection for a business of any size
Video, websites, email, client files, and application data on physical or virtual servers, is the type of information that is essential to business, and can seem endless. Now more than ever, organisations are on the lookout for simpler ways to manage and protect the growing amounts of content collected every...
Provided By NETGEAR, Inc.
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Technology Based-Entrepreneurship: Measurement Technology Perspective
Currently, there are several papers on the New Technology Based Firms (NTBFs) yet the case studies of measurement technology appear to not be available. This paper aims to present the entrepreneurial processes of Finnish measurement technology firms. Eight interviews were conducted with the key players of the industry. Successfully, the...
Provided By University of Ottawa
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The business of social business
The value in social acquaintances
Today, social approaches have become the norm for creating meaningful business value. In an IBM® IBV executive study however, nearly three-quarters of respondents admitted that they were unprepared to embrace this shift in customer engagement. This white paper reveals how business leaders can successfully...Provided By IBM
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Explaining Entrepreneurial Performance of Solo Self-Employed From a Motivational Perspective
This paper investigates whether start-up motivation (opportunity versus necessity) influences entrepreneurial performance of an important subset of entrepreneurs, viz. the solo self-employed. The authors also explore to what extent human capital measures mediate this relation. They use a unique individual-level panel data set of solo self-employed in the Netherlands for...
Provided By EIM Business & Policy Research
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Startup rockstars: A roundup of innovative newcomers
Fame, quick profits, a career marked by creativity, pushing boundaries, popularity and chasing that one big deal that could change everything. You can see why there are parallels drawn between startup founders and rock stars.
While the nexus of startup funding has traditionally been Silicon Valley, technology startup hubs outside...Provided By TechRepublic
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Entrepreneurial Activity, Industry Orientation, and Economic Growth
There is evidence that entrepreneurial activity plays a non-negligible role in driving economic development. In this paper, the authors investigate whether the industry in which the entrepreneurial activity takes place matters for economic growth, both in developed and developing countries. They distinguish between three types of entrepreneurial activity, based on...
Provided By EIM Business & Policy Research
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The Power of Cloud - Driving business model innovation
Cloud has already changed both business and everyday life – from consumers who perhaps unknowingly use it to access their favorite music, to companies that purposely harness its powerful resources. While much activity and buzz relating to cloud involves its technological capabilities, the benefits of cloud adoption actually extend into...
Provided By IBM
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Social Business Behavior: The changing nature of culture and personal interaction in the workplace
The IBM 2011 Tech Trends Report, which surveyed more than 4,000 IT professionals in 93 countries, shows the importance of social collaboration to overall strategies. Social business etiquette is not about a “feel good” approach to business. It is rooted in the deepest levels of how businesses create and engender...
Provided By IBM Australia
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Business continuity: How to increase workforce resiliency during disasters
What would happen to your business if your workers were unable to perform their jobs due to natural or manmade disasters? This paper shares five critical areas in which IBM can help you build human factors into your continuity strategy to help ensure that your workforce and your business remains...
Provided By IBM
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Institutions and the Allocation of Entrepreneurship Across New and Established Organizations
In this paper, the authors argue that institutions affect the allocation of entrepreneurship across new and established organizations. This is confirmed by empirical analysis of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data on early-stage (independent) entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurial employee behavior. Most comparative international research on entrepreneurship has focused on independent...
Provided By EIM Business & Policy Research
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Entrepreneurial Characteristics and Competency as Determinants of Business Performance in SMEs
This paper is to empirically test the influence of entrepreneurial characteristics and competencies on business performance in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This study was conducted with 147 SMEs owner in Malang regency East Java Indonesia using survey instrument. Data analysis using the structural equation modelling. The results of this...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Business continuity: How to increase workforce resiliency during disasters
What would happen to your business if your workers were unable to perform their jobs due to natural or manmade disasters? This paper shares five critical areas in which IBM can help you build human factors into your continuity strategy to help ensure that your workforce and your business remains...
Provided By i & j interactive
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International Business Growth Starts in the Cloud
Globalization has expanded the opportunities available to all of us. It’s now possible for any business to reach clients and partners worldwide, enabling business to grow faster than ever before. To reap the greatest benefit from this unlimited pool of connections, you need cost-effective ways to communicate, effectively removing the...
Provided By ShareFile
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Education Entrepreneurship in India
The education sector in India offers enormous opportunity to employ entrepreneurial business models to create a lasting and positive impact. In this webcast, the presenter shares his experiences as an entrepreneur building a sustainable venture in a domain that has only recently started accepting the role of private enterprise.
Provided By Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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New Insights Into Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Are there any formulas for simultaneously achieving technological innovation and steady growth on a global basis? In this webcast, the presenter describes companies must continuously access and leverage technical resources, which means they must not \"Just think globally but locate globally.\"
Provided By Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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How to Build a Great Company
In this webcast, the presenter explains why startups are not small versions of large companies, and why they require processes and guidelines all their own. The presenter also describes the detailed customer development process for building scalable startups.
Provided By Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Start-Up Thinking: How Systems Thinking Helps Entrepreneurial Ventures Start, Grow, and Mature
Soon after a business plan is hatched and long before manufacturing ramps up, start-ups begin to apply systems design principles to create their breakthrough products. It turns out that systems engineering, an art developed and perfected in large organizations, applies just as well to small entrepreneurial ventures.
Provided By Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Entrepreneurial Idea Development to Business Start-Up: Teaching Methodological Approach
The crucial issue on entrepreneurship training in the tertiary institutions of learning is teaching students how to develop innovative business idea to the business venture start-up stage. This is the ability of the students to develop ideas that are out of the theoretical teaching of the academic environment. Several scholars...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Entrepreneurship and Risk - Taking
Risk - taking and Entrepreneurship are two associated words studying in the entrepreneurial literature. In the most definitions, entrepreneurs are associated with risk and risk - taking. One of the most important factors in the entrepreneurs+ success is their risk - taking .Entrepreneurs must be risk - taker to realize...
Provided By Islamic Azad University
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What's Next for ERP?
Download this thought leadership piece from Phil Wainewright, ZDNet blogger and author of the book Frictionless Enterprise, to learn how business trends like mobilisation, social and collaboration are making cloud ERP a necessity for growing businesses.
Provided By Netsuite AU
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Create a Referral Program to Grow Your IT Business
The primary mode of growth for most technology provider businesses is by good, old word of mouth. Yet, many businesses have not established an official referral program to capture as many referrals as possible. Check out this guide to find the proven best strategies for creating the perfect referral program...
Provided By ConnectWise 2013
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Entrepreneurial Activity and the Cycle: The Roles of Observation Frequency and Economic Openness
The importance of entrepreneurship for modern economies has been studied widely. When considering the relation between entrepreneurship and macro-economic variables, there are three major concepts in macro-economics that one can focus on: the level of economic development, the growth of economic development and the business cycle. The authors investigate the...
Provided By EIM Business & Policy Research
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The Environmental Regulation Paradox for Clean Tech Ventures
Traditionally, regulations are seen as harmful for the starting and growing of firms. However, strict environmental regulation can also trigger the discovery and introduction of clean technologies, and this innovation might improve the competitiveness of the firm. In this paper, the authors will test this environmental regulation paradox in the...
Provided By EIM Business & Policy Research
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30 Business Practices for Remaining Competitive in a changing Economy
In business, the winds of change are always blowing. Lately, it's been more like a full-blown gale.
"With a rapidly changing economy creating both opportunities and risks for almost every business, it's critical that companies effectively manage this change."
This Focus Research eBook explores 30 best practices designed...Provided By Citrix Online
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Forrester Consulting Report: Empowered Customers Drive Collaborative Business Evolution
Today's organizations need to adapt quickly in both the how they do business and how they leverage technology, but research shows that many are falling short. Read this groundbreaking new study, conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of IBM, to understand how empowered customers are changing the way business is...
Provided By IBM
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ESG Whitepaper - VMware's vSphere Storage Appliance: High Availability for Small IT Operations
Learn how small and midsized businesses are increasingly adopting virtualization to deliver consolidation, improve data back up and disaster recovery and increase security with an in-depth new paper from the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Learn directly from your peer's experiences and see why VMware's solutions are perfect for the growing...
Provided By VMware
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Investigating the Impact of the Technological Environment on Survival Chances of Employer Entrepreneurs
In order to mitigate the negative consequences of the current economic and financial crisis, it is of utmost importance that existing jobs remain intact as much as possible. In this respect, it is crucial that firms which employ personnel, survive. In this paper, the authors investigate the role of the...
Provided By EIM Business & Policy Research
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Microbanking for Rural Entrepreneurship Development
The awareness of the role of microenterprise as one of the \"Backbones\" of rural economy has increased. This is because of microenterprise conduct income generation activities for creating self-employment. More than 73% of small enterprise especially in the rural face financial problem and need credit but do not apply, as...
Provided By researchgate.net
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Ageing and Entrepreneurship
This paper examines whether the age of the entrepreneur is related to the objectives, strategy and performance of the firm. The paper is primarily an explorative empirical study. The authors combine a descriptive analysis with econometric estimation techniques in an attempt to explain different outcomes concerning the aforementioned three variables...
Provided By EIM Business & Policy Research
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Businesses are ready for a new approach to IT
Today's businesses need simpler more efficient and flexible computing models. The IBM PureSystems family is comprised of platform systems and infrastructure systems that include built-in patterns of expertise to address complex business and operational tasks for smarter computing.
Provided By IBM
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The Smarter Railroad: An opportunity for the railroad industry
Embedded intelligence, analytics and optimization are reshaping the railroad industry and providing new opportunities. And while demand for rail services is increasing, infrastructure and capacity may limit the opportunity for growth.
Provided By IBM
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Complimentary SuccessFactors whitepaper: Get the Right People
Whether a company succeeds or fails ultimately depends on whether it hires the right people to effectively execute its strategies. Despite the strategic importance of hiring, many companies historically treated recruiting as a largely administrative process. Rather than focusing on the business value associated with hires, recruiters focused on increasing...
Provided By SuccessFactors
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A Business Plan Blueprint: Turn Your Dreams into Actionable Goals
Having a solid business plan is one of the best predictors of the future success of your company, but few business owners take time to sit down and actually create a business plan. Some believe their businesses are too small to need a plan; others believe they don’t have time...
Sponsored By ConnectWise
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Create a Referral Program to Grow Your IT Business
The primary mode of growth for most technology provider businesses is by good, old word of mouth. Yet, many businesses have not established an official referral program to capture as many referrals as possible. Check out this guide to find the proven best strategies for creating the perfect referral program...
Sponsored By ConnectWise
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Businesses are ready for a new approach to IT
Today’s businesses need simpler more efficient and flexible computing models. The IBM PureSystems family is comprised of platform systems and infrastructure systems that include built-in “patterns of expertise” to address complex business and operational tasks for smarter computing.
Sponsored By IBM
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Solutions for Today's Smart Business
Welcome to the IBM Midmarket Briefing Center, your virtual gateway to experts for midsize businesses. Here you will learn about breakthrough innovations, business insights and solutions that address your unique business needs to help you grow your business on a smarter planet.
Sponsored By IBM
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Create a Referral Program to Grow Your IT Business
The primary mode of growth for most technology provider businesses is by good, old word of mouth. Yet, many businesses have not established an official referral program to capture as many referrals as possible. Check out this guide to find the proven best strategies for creating the perfect referral program...
Sponsored By ConnectWise
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BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 Migration Guide
Help employees make the most of business opportunities with the re-designed, re-engineered, re-invented BlackBerry® smartphone powered by BlackBerry® 10. This brief guide explains exactly how your organization can have business users transitioned in just a few quick steps. With a detailed FAQ section, it’s an ideal overview for IT administrators,...
Sponsored By BlackBerry
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Offer Of Strategic Alliance
Use this template to give offer of strategic alliance. This letter is from your business to another business suggesting that you work together to reach goals. It should offer teamwork, not dominance by one company or the other.
Provided By Best Sample Letters
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The Planned Decision To Transfer An Entrepreneurial Company
The authors expand and test Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to explain the transfer of an entrepreneurial venture upon exit. These results confirm TPB: transfer intentions and perceived control over the transfer are the main drivers of the likelihood to transfer. In addition, contextual business characteristics complement TPB in...
Provided By Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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10 Powerful Networking Tips - Using Business Cards
Whether you are looking for a job or running a business, giving out business cards is crucial to marketing your skills or services. Even as a job seeker, develop the mindset of running the business of YOU, Inc. Business cards speak volumes about who you are, what you offer and...
Provided By Net-Temps
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Entrepreneur Purchasing Recommendations For CRM
Most business owners would tend to agree that they don't necessarily think of themselves as entrepreneurs, they are just people running a business, making things go, getting past challenges, keeping their eye on the prize. They know the business, the markets, the processes and anticipate steady growth based on these...
Provided By Salesboom.com
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The Role of Business Model Innovation in the Emergence of Markets: A Missing Dimension of Entrepreneurial Strategy?
Current theorizing assumes business models are developed to match firm resources and capabilities to existing market conditions. Consequently, entrepreneurs who successfully introduce new business models that significantly alter existing market preferences and structures are viewed as an anomaly; their success attributed to the strategic failure of incumbents. In contrast, the...
Provided By University of Salzburg
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Secrets To Business Success On The Internet
Identifying a viable niche is an important asset as you're creating a new Internet business. The target should be a certain facet of the population that has very specific needs you are able to satisfy. Discover the habits and characteristics of those who will become your regular customers. On the...
Provided By Virtual Map
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It Takes More Than Money To Motivate People
Look on the net and you'll find plenty of articles saying that money is a powerful motivator. Talk to employees, however, and you'll find that money doesn't always talk - or at least not the loudest. Time after time, sales organizations put bonus structures in place that anyone should be...
Provided By Klebanoff Associates
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Combating the Increasing Cost of Email
Businesses usually adopt a commonsense approach when it comes to spending the IT budget with cost being a major influencer in purchasing decisions. However, when it comes to choosing a mail server, many businesses seem to pay less attention to the costs and, as a result, end up spending far...
Provided By GECAD TECHNOLOGIES
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How To Get Paid Every Time You Speak
For many, speaking or training is a full time business. Yet for other business owners, we use speaking/training as a way to market a business and bring in extra income. No matter which it is& all or part of your business gets paid! Being paid means receiving money for the...
Provided By Maria Marsala
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Write A Business Plan - Nah! I Can Do That Myself (And Why You Shouldn't)
Every good potential lender or investor, be they bank, angel investor, venture capitalist or business partner, will require a business plan. They want to be comfortable that you have thought long and hard about your business rather than jumping straight into a business. More importantly they want to ensure that...
Provided By Biz Guru
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Ten Tips For Convincing The Buyer To Pay More
The major obstacle that prevents salespeople from receiving the price they want is the fear of rejection. One way of dealing with this fear is to lower your price. A better way is to overcome your fear by schooling yourself in assertive negotiation techniques. When you do it right, both...
Provided By Ed Brodow Seminars
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Why You Need A CRM Solution
Businesses in all industries face greater competitive pressure than ever before. Product and service offerings are becoming more and more similar, and customers are increasing fickle and prone to churn. To succeed, many companies must differentiate themselves through superior service, and offer a consistent, convenient customer experience to gain an...
Provided By CompareCRM.com
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Small Business Marketing Series - Choosing A Niche Market
Many smaller businesses choose niche markets for various reasons and these niche markets can be very lucrative. This paper looks at ways to identify and assess whether they are right for your business? For many smaller businesses it is important to have a focused strategy which enables them to operate...
Provided By CompareCRM.com
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The Credit Crunch Time for IT Service Management to Prove Its Worth
The tough economic conditions caused by the Credit Crunch have hit many businesses hard. The recent and unprecedented intervention of worldwide governments may ease the crisis in financial markets and kick-start the global economy, but short-term confidence in many business circles remains low. Although there is now evidence that the...
Provided By Hornbill Systems
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Alternatives To Declaring Business Bankruptcy
There are two common non-bankruptcy alternatives for a financially distressed business. The first is an out-of-court workout, which, if successful, would allow the business to continue to operate without court supervision. The second is an assignment for benefit of creditors, which is a vehicle for liquidating the business outside of...
Provided By Entrepreneur.com
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How To Start An E-Business: Is Starting A New Internet Business A Bad Idea?
This paper explains you how to start internet business. The web is both a new distribution channel and a new way of doing business. Don't miss either part of that statement. Think of the web only as a new channel - a different way of putting products and services in...
Provided By Entrepreneur.com
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Advantages Of Outsourcing Your Web Design
Whether it is a small business or an established business, Outsourcing the design of its website can offer a business with many benefits. A business has two options when it comes to designing their website. A business can either design its website in-house by utilising the internal resources of the...
Provided By Article Dashboard
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Outsource Your Copywriting Projects And Save Huge Bucks
Outsourcing is the latest buzz in the market and everything right from software development to website content creation is being outsourced from countries where labor charges are comparatively less. This is one of the best means of budget management in any business organization. You can get your work done in...
Provided By Article Dashboard
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How Can You Increase Employee Motivation: Managerial Actions For Increased Motivation
Without motivation in the workplace, your business will suffer from the lack of efficiency that your employees may fail to apply. This is because they have no incentive to perform tasks to a high standard or complete them on time. It is therefore important that you give them something to...
Provided By ROK Connect
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Starting A Business As A Consultant
Starting any business can be tough, but a consulting business can be rewarding for an entrepreneur that possesses expertise in a specific niche or area. Before starting any business it is important to understand that a considerable level of effort will be required especially in the start-up stage. Making a...
Provided By iSnare.com
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The Uncovered Secrets For Starting A New Business And Getting Finance For A Running Business
Owning and managing a business is not an easy task, there are always unexpected situations that may arise and demand a prompt solution which almost always implies the need for cash. This is the time when Business Loans came in useful as a reliable source of finance in times of...
Provided By iSnare.com
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Home Business Buzz: What To Consider When Starting A Business
When you are looking to build a business from home, you need to know what you are looking for. Do you want to build from scratch or become a representative for an already established business? You need to carefully evaluate what it is you want to accomplish, and how much...
Provided By iSnare.com
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Starting A Business - The Three "P"s
There are a lot of factors to consider when starting a business. Primary among these are the three "P"s - Plan, Prepare and Persist. After you have selected some ideas from your brainstorming to base your business around, create a plan of attack. List what you'll need before your business...
Provided By iSnare.com
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The Fun Of Starting A New Business
So you had that fantastic business idea, the one that's going to be wildly successful and make you a fortune - even better, you actually did something about it and started your own business. Good for you! Not everyone gets that far. Most people sit and day dream about what...
Provided By iSnare.com
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Starting A New Business - Get The Word Out To Everyone
Starting a new business requires creativity. You need to think of innovative ways to entice people to give you a shot when you are starting a new business. Often times early paying clients come from friends of the family and other family members. When you're starting a new business it...
Provided By iSnare.com
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Starting Your Own Home Business
Ok, so you have researched the facts weighed the pros and cons and have finally decided that a home business is right for you. But now you need to figure out what type of business you want and how to proceed with marketing this business. This paper gives few tips...
Provided By iSnare.com
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Is Starting An Online Business For You?
Starting a business online is really no different from starting a business that is offline. To get started you need a storefront, seed money, products to sell, a way to market your product, and an overall plan. The only differences between an online business and offline business is that starting...
Provided By iSnare.com
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Finding Angel Investors: Angel Investor Advantages
Wondering how to find angel investors? Finding angel investors starts with a thorough understanding of the pros and cons of getting angel investors. Make sure it's the right move for your business before you start seeking investors. Starting a new business is one of the most difficult things you will...
Provided By Gaebler Ventures
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Starting A Moving Business
Starting a moving business? Smart move! Families move once every five years, and there's also good money to be made in moving businesses. But opening a moving business isn't a sure thing, as this paper explains how to start a moving business. Unfortunately, many aspiring business owners think all it...
Provided By Gaebler Ventures
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Starting A Business: Starting A Restaurant
Starting a restaurant? Are you aware that restaurants have a higher business failure rate than other businesses? The bottom line is that opening a successful restaurant is easier said than done. Restaurants have always been a popular option for budding entrepreneurs. But it takes more than a couple of recipes...
Provided By Gaebler Ventures
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Starting A Business: Good Resources For Starting A Business
When opening your new business, there are many different resources that can help. We discuss several good sources for help when starting a company. When you are starting your business and you have not attempted anything like this before, it can be quite a stressful experience. One of the things...
Provided By Gaebler Ventures
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Starting A Company: Starting A Business In A Small Town
Many aspiring entrepreneurs fear starting up businesses in small towns because they feel there is no room to grow or be profitable. This paper discusses the benefits of starting up your business in a small community and offer advice on what to be careful of when starting a business in...
Provided By Gaebler Ventures
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How To Start A Business: Estimating Startup Costs
Anytime someone wants to start a business, they are usually in the red, because they have to first spend money before they open for business and become fully operational. Estimating startup costs is an essential step, because if done the wrong way, the company might be dead in the water...
Provided By Gaebler Ventures
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Managing Your Accounts Receivables Is Critical: Tight Management Of Collections Is Crucial
If your business sells products or services to other businesses then you may be in the position of having to extend credit to your customers. If you do extend credit then your business, like many others, may be having a hard time getting paid. And although no one really likes...
Provided By Suite101