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The Legatum Institute in London recently published its annual Prosperity Index and for the first time the United States did not rank in the top ten, coming in 12th out of 142 included in the study. This comes at a time when prosperity around the globe has increased.
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Continue ReadingIn the course of running a business, owners continually deal with objections. Potential customers object to the terms of an agreement, existing clients object to prices and financial partners object to requests for additional funding.
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Continue ReadingAccording to Diana Kander, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Kauffman Foundation, most start-up companies fail because they run out of time or money. This failure doesn’t just happen out of the blue—it’s usually predicated upon a set of assumptions by the founder or founders that turn out to be mistaken.
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Continue ReadingIt’s not too late to make financial decisions that can minimize your tax liability for the current year and future years. Even though you are busy with other end of year activities, a little tax planning can be quite a valuable investment.
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Continue ReadingIn order to launch my blog, I asked some of my favorite bloggers, entrepreneurs and all-around smart people what they thought about creating momentum.
Here’s the question I asked:
How do you create momentum in projects, in engaging people and in promoting change?
Read on to see what these experts thought about create momentum.
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Continue ReadingCapital One Financial Corp. released the results of its quarterly survey known as the “Small Business Barometer.” The survey targets owners of companies with less than $10 million in revenue.
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Continue ReadingMany entrepreneurs and small-business owners spend too much time focused on their product or service and not enough time on finding the right market opportunity. Without the right customers, you won’t have revenues, profits or much chance of success.
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Continue ReadingU.S. investors have over $10 trillion in retirement accounts like IRAs and 401(k)s. These accounts require investors to make decisions about what to do with their money. Unfortunately, financial literacy tests generally show that we as consumers simply don’t know enough about finance and investing to make good decisions.
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Continue ReadingSerial entrepreneur Geoffrey Clapp advises business owners to “go do something”. Many aspiring moguls spend so much time planning, that they never get around to actually doing something. When Clapp considers potential investments or…
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Continue ReadingDun and Bradstreet Credibility Corp. recently held the first ever “Access to Capital” event in Los Angeles, which brought together hundreds of small business owners, lenders, venture capitalists, angel investors and others.
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