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Business News

What 11 Successful People Did for Their First Jobs -- and What They Were Paid

From making paper deliveries to selling tuxedos, the first jobs these 11 successful people shared weren't always the most glamorous.

Starting a Business

7 Tips to Build a Business While Working a Day Job

Maintaining your motivation and drive during your transition from employee to entrepreneur is crucial.

Thought Leaders

The 8 Biggest Challenges for New Entrepreneurs

Ready to abandon your steady day job to face hours of loneliness and stressful decision-making? Ah, but there's more...

Starting a Business

The Beauty of Freelancing Until You Hit the Big Time

Freelancing it a bridge across the chasm separating day-job security from entrepreneurial opportunity.

Starting a Business

10 Essentials for Launching a Business While Juggling Your Day Job

Starting a business is stressful in the best circumstances. Doing it without any income is far from the best circumstance.

Making a Change

9 Reasons to Switch Careers as Soon as Possible

If you feel the itch to make a change, it's perfectly normal -- and it can actually revolutionize your success.

Thought Leaders

Should You Quit Your Day Job and Jump Into Entrepreneurship?

How do you balance the comfort and safety of a paycheck with the dream of building something all your own.

Starting a Business

5 Tips for Moonlighting Entrepreneurs

Trying to start your own business while holding down a day job? Here's how to do it the right way.

Making a Change

You Want to Be the Lion In the Entrepreneurship Circle of Life

For those who can grasp metaphors, 'The Lion King' and Animal Planet are all the business education you need.

Starting a Business

5 Jobs Every Entrepreneur Should Work Before Building a Business

Working a steady job prior to becoming an entrepreneur gives you the skills, experiences, insights and money that you need in order to be successful.

Leadership

7 Strategies for Managing a Micromanager

These types of overseers can suck every ounce of ambition out of you and leave you frustrated, angry and annoyed all at the same time.

Starting a Business

The Pros and Cons of Starting a Business While Working a Full-Time Job

Keeping your job while starting your own business is a way of hedging your bets, but there are drawbacks.

Thought Leaders

5 Steps to Take Before Quitting Your Job to Become an Entrepreneur

Too many people have become obsessed with an idea and quit their jobs impulsively only to find their potential business isn't as strong as they thought it would be.

Productivity

12 Ways to Hack Your 9-to-5 Job and Live Worry Free

I'm sure that Peter Gibbons, the much-loved character from 'Office Space,' would endorse these tactics.

Starting a Business

How to Make the Jump From Employee to Entrepreneur in 5 Steps

How can you stop being a cog in someone else's machine and venture out into the world of entrepreneurship?