Start a Business — Building Your Product
Here’s How not to Start a Business: You’ve got a great idea for a product or service that you know everyone will want as much as you do. So you sketch it out on paper and get to work building it…
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10 Quotes for Startups from Katia Beauchamp, Founder of Birchbox
When Katia Beauchamp left her Private Banking job (where she worked on big corporate real estate deals) to attend Harvard Business School, she had no idea she would be running one of the most successful New York City startups just…
Start a Business: Choosing a Business Type (Corp, LLC, LLP, or Sole Proprietorship)
Today we want to share a few thoughts about choosing a business type for your startup. It’s something you should do before you start spending money on your idea. And you’ll need to show your legal papers to the bank when…
Start a Business: Will Anyone Buy Your Product?
This month we’ve been sharing our thoughts on starting a business: the first step to starting a business, how to figure out if you can money with your idea, and whether or not its the kind of idea that you can…
11 Quotes for Startups and Small Business from Eventbrite Founder, Julia Hartz
Julia Hartz is the cofounder and President of Eventbrite, the online ticketing company that helps anyone (not just big musical acts) open their own box office for events. Before starting Eventbrite, Julia worked in the television industry working at MTV…
Start a Business: 8 Questions to Ask to Find Product / Founder Fit
We’ve been writing about the first steps to starting a business over the past few weeks. In case you missed them, we’ve covered stuff like figuring out if your idea will earn enough money to support you and the number one…
Want to Start a Business? Here’s How to Figure Out If You’ll Make a Profit.
Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been sharing our thoughts on starting a business, why you might want to do it, what experience you need, and the most important thing you need to do. But none of that means…
Another Thought on Starting Your New Business Now—A Follow-up to Yesterday’s Post
230 years ago yesterday, two balloonists—frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jefferies—took off in a hot-air balloon from Dover England in an attempt to be the first to fly across the English Channel. Blanchard wasn’t exactly what most people would…
Is It Time For You to Start a Business? Take the First Step.
Last week we noted you might have a resolution to start a business this year. And we threw out a couple of things you might want to think about before you jump into your startup. Stuff like having a good…
Your New Year’s Resolution: Start a Business
According to a survey conducted by Intuit (the guys behind Quickbooks and Mint), 72% of Americans want to own their own company. And 84% believe they would be more passionate about their work if they owned their own business. We certainly…
