If people don’t know about your website then the investment is effectively wasted. Here are the steps you need to take to ensure you clock up hits from day one.
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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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Graphic by: Global Economic Intersection Times of economic woe don’t mean you have to tuck-in your entrepreneurial spirit and settle for whatever job you can get. In fact, economic slowdowns can be prime opportunities to get your startup off the ground. Don’t believe it? Ask General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, Facebook, Disney, Burger King or Apple [...]
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This Monday is Presidents’ Day in the U.S. and in the spirit of the holiday we want to celebrate our favorite presidents and leaders. Namely: you! We appreciate Lincoln’s brilliant plans, FDR’s innovative new deals, and entrepreneurs’ dynamic business plans. We appreciate you, who rise every day to place executive orders, create bold new deals, and [...]
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The world continues to turn, many new opportunities lie ahead, and now is the perfect time to fulfill dreams of taking charge of your future. 2013 is the year to kick business planning into high gear and start your own company. More opportunities than ever exist for innovative entrepreneurs to offer specialized services and products [...]
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I was recently asked how many startups I’ve founded or co-founded, and after a quick mental walkthrough of all these companies – I arrived at the number 13. Of the 13, the vast majority of my startups “failed” or have yet to succeed by conventional standards; two of them succeeded by these same standards; and [...]
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Editor’s Note: This post is part of our series of posts from startups participating in the MassChallenge accelerator program. Learn more about MassChallenge or see all the posts in this series. Monday, July 9th. That’s the day my startup, Vsnap, announced that we closed a $750k angel round. Because we are finalists in the MassChallenge [...]
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One sad fact in our capitalistic world is that funding for many worthwhile efforts is often difficult to obtain if there is not a direct profit opportunity to be had. Non-profit’s and local community leaders need special assistance, especially in developing countries, to gain access to appropriate resources of capital devoted to their respective purposes. [...]
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Yesterday I was sent a link to a study on women owned businesses. While some of the data is a few years out of date, I was caught by this particular piece of information: In 2004, Women owned 10.6 million businesses in the United States. They employed 19.1 million workers–that’s one in every seven employees [...]
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