Business Ideas
5 Ways to Build Jumpstarting Innovation Into Your Business
Innovation results from the ideas we have and the ideas we encourage other people to share.
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Business Ideas
Stuck? 5 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Gain a Fresh Perspective.
For those struggling to innovate, here are five ways entrepreneurs can start identifying new ideas that can rapidly accelerate their business.
Thought Leaders
Create a Personal Business Plan That You’ll Really Use
Develop a customized tool that will serve to focus you on your most important objectives. Write it in user-friendly prose so you'll check it weekly.
By Marty Fukuda
Thought Leaders
7 Ways to Unlock Your Company’s Creative Juices
If entrepreneurial companies are to thrive, then creativity has to become a major component of their DNA.
By Maite Baron
Building a Business
How Gender Affects Team-Based Brainstorming Sessions
A news study suggests that making brainstorming activities competitive spurs men, but makes women less engaged.
By Lisa Evans
Building a Business
7 Key Steps Toward Starting Your Own Business
It's easy to become overwhelmed in the early stages of launching a company. Try these steps to guide you along the way.
By Sujan Patel
Thought Leaders
Memo to Entrepreneur: You’re Not the Smartest One in the Room
Hurry up and truly make use of all the people resources around you. Your staff is brimming full of ideas.
By Boland Jones
Thought Leaders
Why You Can’t Shake Off That Last Argument
Talks that make us feel horrible linger longer than we think. We explain the science behind this phenomenon and how to get past it.
Building a Business
An Expert Guide to Idea Curation: How to Get More Ideas for Great Content
How can we get more ideas more consistently? There's inspiration everywhere. We've just got to keep our eyes open.
By Kevan Lee
Thought Leaders
Turns Out You’ve Been Brainstorming All Wrong
In a creativity rut? These approaches to thinking and problem solving can help you put the brain back into brainstorming.
Building a Business
Take a Page From Hollywood, Improv Your Next Brainstorming Session
Actors often improvise during scenes. Entrepreneurs should be imploring this same tactic for brainstorming sessions.
Building a Business
5 Places to Look on Social Media for New Business Ideas
For entrepreneurs looking to dive into the startup world, turn to social media for brainstorming new venture concepts.
Business Ideas
These Siblings Feed Off Each Other’s Input to Drive Their Entrepreneurial Success
A serial entrepreneur recalls her early collaborations with her brother and gives tips on how to encourage enterprise-building traits.
Building a Business
5 Steps for Creating a Long-Term Plan for Your Startup
Having a clear vision of your company's long-term trajectory is essential to ensuring its success.
Building a Business
5 Tricks To Brainstorm Like It’s Your Job
A whiteboard session can lead to great results but you must take the process seriously.
By Jimi Smoot
Building a Business
10 Tips for Unleashing Your Creativity at Work
The magic process of idea generation is open to far more people than commonly thought.
By Boland Jones
Business News
Collaborating Is a Waste of Time If It Falls Into These 4 Traps
Be wary of groupthink, three-hour meetings and open offices dominated by chatterboxes. Encourage meaningful followup on worthy ideas.
Entrepreneurs
Get Your Head in the Game: 3 Easy Skills to Master Your Mind
To get you set up for success, here are a few simple exercises you can do in under five minutes.
Building a Business
How an Idea Partner Can Help Launch a Million-Dollar Startup
For our series College Treps, Chris Norton discusses how an idea partner can help an entrepreneur separate million-dollar ideas from total duds.
By Chris Norton
Building a Business
3 Ways to Keep Your Creative Juices Flowing When You’re Always Busy
It can be hard to exercise your brain's innovation muscles, but these three brain-boosting activities can help you no matter how busy you are.
By Debra Kaye
Building a Business
Forget Brainstorming, Try Brainswarming Instead
Innovators continually generate new ideas through a more continuous and dynamic process, here's how you can too.
Entrepreneurs
8 Power Breakfast Spots
Power brokering goes best with your morning coffee at these locales in the U.S. and abroad.
Building a Business
Why Brainstorming is a Waste of Time and What You Should Do Instead
There are other more productive ways to come up with business ideas. Here are five effective alternatives.
By Debra Kaye
Building a Business
Out of Fresh Business Ideas? Try This.
Everyone has experienced a dry spell when it comes to generating ideas. Here are seven steps to keep your idea well full.
Entrepreneurs
Cultivating Resilience and Other Tips This Week
How to stop your brain from holding you back, figuring out what your product replaces in the market, learning to say no and more: our best tips of the week.
Entrepreneurs
Acting on Ideas and Other Tips This Week
How to get beyond brainstorming, beat procrastination and find more permanent customers: our best tips of the week.
Thought Leaders
How Successful Leaders Balance Skepticism and Openness
Four tips for encouraging innovative in your team.