Ready Entrepreneur

Five Practical Tips to Get Started as an Entrepreneur

Maybe today was the day.  The rudest person at work interrupted you for the tenth time, your supervisor ignored your brilliant suggestions, and you had to cancel lunch with a friend because a useless meeting was just scheduled… Read More

Understanding Tech as an Aspiring Entrepreneur

Why should you care about technology as an entrepreneur?  Not the smartphone in your hand or the laptop on your desk, but the entire realm of technology advancement and achievement.  The transition from an industrial to a technology… Read More

Popularity vs Excellence: A Decision Guide for Rising Entrepreneurs

In the battle for relevance between popularity and excellence, how should rising entrepreneurs market their business? This post discusses how the decision to create a ‘popularity Oscar’ signals our society’s shift from value, quality and excellence to popularity. … Read More

Prepare to Pitch Investors in under Five Minutes: Tips for Rising Entrepreneurs

Are you ready to pitch your business idea in under one minute? You have one minute. One minute to convince someone with money to give you money for your business. Have you prepared? Rising Entrepreneurs have an opportunity… Read More

Rising Entrepreneurs: Is Advertising Worth the Cost?

How to Measure Your ROI when Making Marketing Decisions Big Words vs. Your Business Numbers: Bad advice and wild declarations could be preventing you from maximizing opportunities for your business. Here is a straightforward process for determining, for… Read More

Can Entrepreneurship be Taught?

Who are the entrepreneurs in the world, the people who start businesses? Could it be the most clever or the hustler or the cheapskate or the visionary or the lucky or the hardest working or the liar or… Read More

Start Your Business Around Your 9-to-5 Job

Some of you have asked, ‘how do I balance becoming an entrepreneur while still keeping up my 9-to-5 job?’ For the answer, I go back to a basic question: What are you trying to achieve with your life?… Read More

Global from Your Backyard – Tips for the Globalizing Entrepreneur

ELEVEN GLOBALIZATION FACTORS TO USE IN YOUR BUSINESS The idea of globalization has many people worried about their economic and employment future. After all, globalization means competition with everyone on earth (7 billion people), and those who have… Read More

Prepare to be a Business Owner

The word “preparation” means the action or process of making ready or being made ready for use or consideration. If you are thinking about starting your own business, where do you stand on your preparation for the job?… Read More

Ten Essential Tools to Help You Get Started as an Entrepreneur

  When you begin planning your business. You may be focused on your business idea, plan, set-up and launch date. But how do you do your focusing? Are you putting the ideas in the notes feature on your… Read More