What do you think?… Surveys are the best tool to prove an idea for a business or product. √ Yes? √ No? √ It depends? Some entrepreneurs who start a business send surveys to potential customers to verify the viability of their idea for a product. I applaud them...
The Most Effective Strategy to Validate, Refine, or Pivot your Idea for a Product or Business. From the outside, Sara Blakely, the founder, and CEO of Spanx, now a billionaire, seems an overnight success story. But when the fax machine saleswoman first came up...
Hate it or love it, social media that began as a fad of questionable usefulness not so long ago has now developed into a macro-trend if not a mega-trend. It’s here to stay, whether we like it or not. And most of us, entrepreneurs or soon to be small business owners,...
There is nothing madder than your madness, and it is a gold mine too. No, this is not Dr. Seuss talking… It’s your future pointing you in the right business idea direction. As I indulged book-reading for pleasure recently, it came across a phrase that I...
Foreign entrepreneurs who seek to build a new life in the United States all have this trait in common: a thirst for the ultimate adventure of all adventures, the dream to build a new business in a new world. Theirs is a burning desire to not only cross a nation’s...
Did you know? The etymology of the word entrepreneur comes from the French “to undertake”, which originates from 19th-century creations of theatrical productions. Ironic, as the life of an entrepreneur can be quite theatrical, with surprising drama and challenges. But...