The world is quickly becoming a smaller place and it’s making more sense for companies to uproot and locate elsewhere, reducing staffing and production costs. Relocating your business isn’t a light decision though, no matter how much more cost-effective it may be. If you are considering moving your company to another country, we’ve outlined a list of things for [...]
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You’re about to enter the big bad world of owning your own business, and you’ve been advised that becoming a ‘sole trader’ is the best option for yourself. But what is a sole trader, and do the positives out way the negatives? “A sole proprietorship, also known as the sole trader or simply a proprietorship, [...]
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Startups at all stages benefit from the wisdom of advisors. These people typically complement the management team in some meaningful way. They are not on the board, so their advice is merely guidance. Still, if a founder picks the right advisors, she will receive a wealth of benefits. Advisors can serve as: A sounding board [...]
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Ask any marketer to explain his trade and he will say that it is all about placing the right product in the right place, at the right price and at the right time. Simple, eh? Well, it’s not as easy as it sounds. The right approach would be to arrive at a marketing mix that [...]
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Filing for a ‘Doing Business As’ name is usually nowhere near the top of a small business owner’s to-do list. It costs money, requires you to fill out paperwork and, depending on where you do business, might mean running an announcement in a local paper for a few weeks. Many people just put it off, [...]
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As bank lending remained frozen following the financial crisis, alternative financial product offerings have exploded.
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Entrepreneur Zack Price was selected to be a Project Glass Explorer for Google. Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. Google was a private company and their CEO and co-founder was [...]
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In many respects, software is like a baby. It starts off with an idea, you think through whether it is worth indulging your idea, then you plan your idea, and execute. Software often has a much longer gestation period than nine months though. Once the finished product enters the world there is much joy and [...]
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Running your small business without the proper insurance is a little like skydiving without a parachute. Many variables determine what sort of business insurance you should carry, including the size of your business, whether or not you have employees, and what sort of work you do. Wading through all of the insurance laws and recommendations [...]
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