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Is Your Brain in Overdrive? 3 Tips for Finding Focus

Just as your computer can crash when you have too many programs open at once, multitasking too much can crush your ability to focus. Business coach Antonio Neves offers some tips for finding focus.

Antonio Neves

Growth Strategies

Whatever You Do, Don't Not Delegate: 8 Tips for Cultivating Keen Employees

Delegating is the second-hardest thing for an entrepreneur to do. The hardest is not delegating.

Matthew Toren | 4 min read

Starting a Business

How to Start a Foundation

Establishing a nonprofit requires an ongoing commitment, not just an initial injection of funding. Here are the steps to take when you're ready to jump in.

Gwen Moran | 5 min read

Starting a Business

How to Make Freelancing Work for Future Entrepreneurs

For would-be entrepreneurs, freelancing can serve as a crucial first toe in the water.

Matthew Toren | 4 min read

Growth Strategies

How to Start Up with Mom and Dad on Your Side

The ties you form early will help mold you in life and in business. Here's how to keep your parents happy and on your side while you're starting up.

Jim Sheils | 3 min read

Starting a Business

Why Watching the Super Bowl May Inspire You to Start a Business

An entrepreneurship organization is running an ad during the Super Bowl. Its goal: To get you to start up.

Diana Ransom

Starting a Business

Start a Business for Under $500

Check out 7 startups you can launch for next to nothing.

Melinda F. Emerson | 10 min read

Starting a Business

Three Tips to Start a Consulting Business

Ready to use your industry expertise to strike out on your own? Consider these tactics to get your business off to a successful start.

Jennifer Merritt | 5 min read

Starting a Business

Five Overlooked Legal Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make

When starting a business, details can get lost in the excitement of a new venture. Here are the top legal mistakes unwittingly made by new business owners -- and how to avoid them.

Lisa Girard | 5 min read