Building a Business
7 Ways to Bootstrap Your Community
Today it's more viable than ever to bootstrap your way to success. Here are seven self-starter tips that will build your business and the community that sustains it.
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Business Funding
Why Soft Skills Make Strong Networks
It is possible to do well, by doing good.
By Ivan Misner
Business Funding
How to End a Conversation — Without Offending Anyone Around You
Whether you're ready to wrap it up immediately or have time for courtesies, here are a handful of efficient exit lines.
By Ivan Misner
Business News
The Woman Behind One of the Country’s Largest Animal-Welfare Organizations Shares Her Leadership Advice When Dealing With a Divisive Community
Despite its laudable mission, Best Friends Animal Society has its critics. Its new CEO, Julie Castle, shares how to work with those who may not see eye to eye with you.
Building a Business
Why So Many Entrepreneurs Move to San Francisco — And How You Can Get the Same Benefits, Wherever You Are
Being where the action is has its benefits.
Marketing
All I Know About Marketing I Learned From Margaritas
Singer Jimmy Buffett can teach us all how to build a brand and engage our customers.
Building a Business
This Company Took a Huge Risk When It Opened Its $30 Million Collaborative Space
When it opened its door, community space New Lab wasn't filled to capacity.
Thought Leaders
How This Famous Rapper-Entrepreneur Is Transforming The Bronx
Platinum hip-hop artist Styles P launched a chain of juice bars to bring affordable, healthy options to underserved communities.
By Kira Halevy
Business Accounting
Where Investors Are Missing Startup Opportunities in America
It's time to stop ignoring the entrepreneurs in "flyover country."
Thought Leaders
What Business Are You Really In?
If you're passionate about what you do, then chances are high you're not just in it for the money. What drives your business forward?
By Shaun Buck
Thought Leaders
The Secret to a Successful Franchise? A ‘Community’-Based Business
The real challenge is finding the hook and putting the people in place to make it all possible.
By Ben Midgley
Entrepreneurs
6 Ways to Make Your Business More Efficient
Fixing what's not working gets you further than tinkering pointlessly with what it.
Business News
Community Colleges and the Creation of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Community colleges are advancing entrepreneurship in their communities by providing access points to support local startups and small businesses.
Thought Leaders
The Power of Pancakes: Branding Starts With Tribes, Not Beta Tests
If you are building a brand, be sure to think about how you can piece together your tribe, then start today.
By Zach Ferres
Marketing
What 500 Community Managers Can Teach About Building a Community
We've moved beyond seeing "community" as just a means to get fresh customers and leads in the door.
By Sujan Patel
Buying a Franchise
3 Mission-Critical ‘Hot Buttons’ for Military Veteran Franchise Buyers
Incorporate these three strategies in your franchise system to recruit veterans striving for civilian success.
Thought Leaders
Radical Inclusion: How Burning Man is Helping Create a New Breed of Entrepreneur
Innovators are connecting in the Nevada desert.
Building a Business
Startup Honored as Winner of First-Ever ‘HackON’ Competition
Cox Business's small business accelerator event highlighted area's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Building a Business
How Tech Entrepreneurs Can Excel Outside Silicon Valley
During Dallas Startup Week, we asked local entrepreneurs how they make the most of their local community and what advice they have for others.
Thought Leaders
How to Build a Volunteer Corps That Outlasts a Surge
Turn one-time volunteers into lifelong supporters.
By Rob Wenger
Building a Business
3 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Use Their Community to Grow Their Business
A local network is a great resource to help founders propel their business, if they use it is correctly.
Marketing
5 Steps to Creating a Loyalty Building Strategy for Your Business
Building loyalty takes lots of time and patience, but these tips could help streamline the process.
By Ann Smarty
Building a Business
How Entrepreneurs Can Succeed Outside of Silicon Valley
With startups popping up all over the U.S., here is how to make the most of your local community.
Building a Business
6 Ways to Grow a Startup Community in Your Own Backyard
Great ideas and great companies can and should start anywhere. Here are some ways local leaders can foster thriving startup communities.
By Emma Peck
Thought Leaders
3 Ways Startup Communities Can Attract and Keep the Right Talent
Often emerging entrepreneurial communities say they need capital to thrive, but it is the talent, not the money, they need to succeed.
By Ross Baird
Business News
Here’s What Brands Can Learn From Hillary’s Grassroots ‘Differentiator’
How political campaigns find and energize volunteers is a model for finding brand evangelists from among your best customers.
Building a Business
Leaders Succeed When They Go Where Their Fear Tells Them to Avoid
Performing artists believe their professional growth relies on taking the roles that scare them most. Business leaders, take note.