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I Started My First Business at Age 9: Here’s What Kids Can Learn from Being Entrepreneurs
One childhood entrepreneur shares the life and business lessons she learned while running her first business. If you think entrepreneurship is only for adults, think again.
By Tori Dunlap
How to Successfully Start a Dental Practice
If your future career is in dentistry, you’re in luck—there are a growing number of opportunities for dentists. To learn about starting a dental practice, read on.
Is a Small Business Your Destiny?
There is a difference between having a job and having a business. In either case, you are going to be working hard to accomplish your tasks. The key difference is that, when running your own business, you control the product that you work on, and thus the work that you are doing. “The thing is,...
MicroAid: Helping Entrepreneurs Rise Out of Poverty
For those living in extreme poverty in developing nations, even the most entrepreneurial people face challenges. While in recent years, the rise of microloans and microcredit programs have certainly done some good, there are new ideas cropping up about ways to create sustainable change using education, business planning skills, and technology. To learn more, we...
Welcome to Summoner’s Rift: Why a Free Start Can be Better for Business
At first glance, the business model sounds insane—a game that you can download and play for free. Not a free trial, not on a basic account, the game can be played forever while never spending a single penny on it. You read that right—the game is free. Anybody can play it for as long as they...
What I Learned From My Appearance on Shark Tank
It’s not everyday that a television producer handpicks you to appear on ABC’s hit show “Shark Tank,” but that’s what happened to entrepreneur Kelly Costello. Costello is the founder of Puppy Cake, a company that sells boxed cake mix for dogs. It’s a lot like the do-it-yourself Betty Crocker cake mix, except the ingredients are changed...
Starting a Business? Don’t Bid on Every Project
When Garry Polmateer started a consulting firm in 2010, he and his small team of employees were hungry and eager to make it in the business world. Their business, Red Argyle, helps small businesses utilize a cloud-based sales program called SalesForce. In the beginning, Polmateer was bidding on every project he could find just to...
How I Made 2,000 Jewelry Sales on Etsy
Thinking about selling on Etsy? Stephanie Maslow talks about the lessons she learned getting her jewelry shop off the ground and earning money.