Building a Business
How Perfection Can Ruin Your Business
Very often, perfection is the enemy of success. Don't let it be.
By Lisa Evans
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Building a Business
Investors Consider These 7 Elements to Be High Risk
If you're seeking money for your startup, you should be prepared to address potential issues that may face your business.
Building a Business
3 Ways Companies Can Encourage Smart Risk Taking
Many business leaders and organizations are predisposed to say no, thereby quashing experimentation and innovation. Here's how to welcome new ideas and tactics.
By Salim Ismail
Building a Business
What Employers Need to Know About Ebola for Now
Understand how transmission takes place and educate your workforce. Consider extra steps as needed.
Building a Business
7 Risks Every Entrepreneur Must Take
To start and support your own business, you'll have to put your career, personal finances and even your mental health at stake.
Building a Business
Student Pulls Epic Skydiving Stunt to Land Startup Internship of Her Dreams
'I'm terrified of heights,' says 19-year-old Anna Bezuglova, 'but for Alphatise, I'm willing to take the plunge.'
By Geoff Weiss
Building a Business
Study: It’s Better to Start a Business While You’re Still Employed Elsewhere
A new study finds that entrepreneurs who start companies while still employed at their day jobs are a third less likely to fail.
By Nina Zipkin
Thought Leaders
7 Truths About Risk I Learned Riding the Rodeo Circuit
Don't ever bet a weak hand and never make a bet that you aren't willing to lose.
By Fred Brown
Thought Leaders
10 Ways Entrepreneurs Think Differently
Those in the thick of business ownership understand that even considering all its rewards, entrepreneurship is a difficult and complicated path.
Business Ideas
Finding Clients Who Are Open to Innovation Even in Risk-Averse Markets
When the purchasing decision chain is full of doubters, these tips can help you woo more customers.
By David Peto
Building a Business
4 Questions to Ask Before Taking the Entrepreneurial Plunge
Starting and running your own business is one of the hardest things you can ever do. Make sure you're ready for the challenge.
Building a Business
More Diverse Corporate Boards Leads to Less Risk Taking
Research shows that businesses of all sizes would be wise to include leadership from all walks of life.
By Ya-wen Yang
Thought Leaders
How Improv Comedy Can Seriously Grow Your Business
Winning an audience and scoring new business have much in common. Here are seven lessons to take from the stage to the boardroom to add value to any team.
Building a Business
Climbing a Mountain, Whether Real or Figurative, Requires Calculated Risks
You have to navigate potentially dangerous terrain to reach your goals and build success.
Building a Business
To Make It, You Have to Be Willing to Fall Flat on Your Face
Anyone who dares to call themselves an entrepreneur has to take on the big risk that comes along with it, and continue taking risks.
Building a Business
How Much Risk Should First-Time Entrepreneurs Take On?
Accepting risks is a skill that can be learned. When you're ready to launch a venture, consider these five tips that have proven effective in the classroom.
By Amy Rosen
Thought Leaders
What Successful Poker Players and Entrepreneurs Have in Common
Managing the risk properly is the challenge. Use the right intelligence to make your moves.
By Diana Kander
Building a Business
Want a Bank Loan? You Better Have Some Skin in the Game.
A strong equity position supports the notion that the owner is likely to protect the investment and repay borrowed funds.
By Jesse Torres
Building a Business
How to Spot the Ideal Franchise Opportunity for You
No franchise is perfect, but some can come pretty close -- you just have to go in with your eyes open.
By Joel Libava
Building a Business
6 Ways to Improve Workplace Safety Without Going Broke
Adopt a proactive approach to save your small business from physical danger and financial peril.
By Phil La Duke
Thought Leaders
Risk is the Admission Fee of Entrepreneurship
After recognizing an opportunity, you have to assess the costs, both financial and personal, to pursuing it.
By Amy Rosen
Building a Business
A Franchise Leader on the Benefits and Challenges of Multi-Unit Ownership
He started his life in franchising at age 14, mopping floors at a Burger King. Today, Aziz Hashim owns 35 franchises and employs 700 people.
Thought Leaders
The 4 Factors to Making the Best Decisions for You
Eventually, you'll have to learn to trust your gut and live with the consequences. Here's how to get started with that mentality.
By Stephen Key
Building a Business
When Launching Your Startup, Consider These 5 Risks
While entrepreneurs may think they have the next billion-dollar idea, they need to assess certain risk factors before bringing it to market. Otherwise, they will crash and burn.
Thought Leaders
5 Quotes on Risk That Will Have You Ready to Take Action
Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- right? Get ready to face some risk with these inspiring calls to action.
By Adam Toren
Tech
CEOs Can No Longer Sit Idly By on Cybersecurity
Target's dismissal of its top man is proof that executives ignore tech breaches at their own peril.
By Eric Basu
Building a Business
Considering VC for Your Business? Here’s What You Need to Know.
Three questions to ask yourself when deciding whether or not you should take an investment from a company.
By Sam Hogg