Building a Business
Best Idea Ever, or Forget It? 7 Ways to Reality Check a Startup Concept.
How does any entrepreneur know what ventures to pursue, and which ones are best left behind?
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Entrepreneurs
Amazing Quotes to Inspire You Out of a Creative Rut
To get your mind flowing with ideas, consider the advice of these great thinkers throughout history.
By Peter Gasca
Building a Business
Create the Best Environment for Creative Employees With These 6 Principles
The efforts and breakthroughs of innovative workers result in great products and ultimately business success.
By Bill Becker
Building a Business
How Creative Geniuses Come Up With Great Ideas
We all have some type of creative genius inside of us. The only way to release it is to work on it.
By James Clear
Building a Business
This One Word Will Always Stifle Creativity
Great entrepreneurs understand that great ideas can often come from really bad ones.
By Peter Gasca
Building a Business
So You Have a Successful Restaurant. Now What?
Your food business might be able to support new ventures. Here's how to figure out the best direction to go in for expansion.
Building a Business
Your Ideas Have No Value
Get over holding onto your ideas and get out there and do something with them.
By Carol Roth
Building a Business
Don’t Just Start a Business, Solve a Problem
You don't want to start a business that may not survive. Do your homework, validate your idea and make sure you have a real market for it.
Thought Leaders
Inspire Innovators to Step Up at Your Company With Transparency
Fostering intrapreneurship within organizations both large and small can help bring companies to new levels of success.
By Andre Lavoie
Business Ideas
Think Your Mundane Idea Can’t Be a Big Innovation? Take a Second Look.
Even today new inventions don't always involve harnessing high technology. The smallest idea can inspire a transformative product.
By Debra Kaye
Marketing
Become a Better Blogger Today With These 4 Actions
To get attention on the crowded Internet, you have to devote time to your craft and plan well.
By Zach Cutler
Building a Business
Jump on an Idea Quickly With These 5 Tips
Great entrepreneurs don't catch lightning in a bottle and leave it on the table.
Business Accounting
The Hard Truth About How Much Your Invention is Really Worth
Investors don't want to invest in a product, they want to invest in a business. Here are seven reality checks to apply.
Building a Business
Ka-Ching: Making Money Online
With the online world taking over our lives, here is how entrepreneurs can cash in.
By Joel Comm
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.
Building a Business
If You Fry It, They Will Come. Cronuts and the Business Case for Imitation.
This hybrid dessert trend created opportunity across the country. We explain what the Cronut's success can teach you.
Thought Leaders
You Have Good Ideas — Don’t Let Them Disappear
A good daily habit to develop is to capture your thoughts. Who knows? It might just lead to a big breakthrough.
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
3 Online Tools for Supercharging a Company’s Culture
Easy-to-use software or online assessments can do some heavy lifting for managers aiming to promote the esprit de corps.
Building a Business
Houston, We Have No Problems: Ready Your Idea for Take Off
If you ever need to explain the process of building a new product to your CEO, manager or investor, just look to space travel.
Building a Business
Recognizing Opportunity is the First Step to an Entrepreneurial Mindset
Whether it's a new store location or a new way to do things, finding a chance to blaze your own path is vital.
By Amy Rosen
Business Ideas
No Wizard Needed — 3 Ways to Give Employees Courage
When people fall back on the same tired ideas, your company can stagnate. Do these things to strengthen their backbones.
Thought Leaders
Jack Dorsey to Employees: Name-Dropping Makes You Look Dumb
Trying to push an idea 'because the boss wants it' strips you of authority and diminishes the idea's merit, Dorsey writes.
By Laura Entis
Entrepreneurs
Make a Positive Change Now With These 5 Life Shortcuts
Save time and conserve energy with these simple but powerful changes in your daily actions and thinking.
By Adam Toren
Building a Business
The 3 Building Blocks Every Successful Product Shares
Use the 'Perfect Product Pyramid' to turn your ideas into success.
Building a Business
9 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Validated Their Business Idea
The author of a new book tells how several inventive types tested their product's premise. A catchy concept won't score profits for a startup if no one wants the device.