Essentials for Getting a Business Loan
To start or grow any business, you’ll need funding and most businesses are funded through three sources: personal savings, loans from friends & family and commercial loans from banks. If you’ve already tapped through the personal sav...
Need Money to Start your Business? Do these Five Things and Get the Funds You Need!
By Pedro Enamorado Getting startup funds for a business can be as simple as saving up, or as difficult as going through dozens of investors to pitch your idea. Entrepreneurs for most small businesses have trouble getting investment for s...
Immigrant Entrepreneurs Intensify Small Business Growth
By Morris Beschloss Although it’s already a well-known fact that America’s independent small business sector generates more expansion than the rest of the world nations combined, little has been indicated about the intensifying role play...
Two Immigrant Entrepreneurs Who Prove the American Dream Endures
By Daphne Mallory (Photo credits: Louis Krubich and Robert Haidari) Immigrant entrepreneurs are valuable contributors to our communities and to the world. We create jobs, innovate and improve the quality of life for others along the way....
Home of the Free, Land of the Entrepreneur
By Frank Holmes At 16, Jan Koum immigrated to the U.S. from his native Ukraine, then still under communist control. He and his single mother rented a small two-bedroom apartment on government assistance and relied on food stamps. Even th...
The Early Years of Entrepreneurship
A Step-by-Step Approach to Surviving and Thriving By Caron Beesley Entrepreneur and founder of The Body Shop Anita Roddick once said: “Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures c...
5 Pillars of Small Business Success
By Marco Carbajo What does it take for a small business to achieve success? Whether you’re already in business, or preparing to start a business, it takes hard work, tenacity and drive to achieve a high level of success. Lori Greiner, ...
4 Ways to Build Lasting Customer Relationships
By Rieva Lesonsky Getting repeat business is the secret to success for every entrepreneur. But what's the secret to repeat business? According to the Spring 2015 Bank of America Small Business Owner Report, nearly six in 10 (57 percent) ...
American Dreamers: Foreign Born Women Making Fortunes in U.S.
By Luisa Kroll As a child Thai Lee, now 56, moved around a lot. The daughter of a well regarded Korean economist, she was born in Thailand and spent many years in Korea. In her teens, she moved to the U.S. with her older sister. They liv...
10 Tips to Help You Build and Grow a Stand-Out Small Business Brand
By Caron Beesley The United States loves small businesses – it’s official! That’s according to a survey by the Pew Foundation which found that 71 percent of Americans view small business more favorably than any other institutions, ...