Category: Startups

Looking to step into a money suck that will eat your time and leave you exhausted and penniless? Here’s how. These business ideas all look like short cuts or at least, like winners anyone can ride to the finish line. In reality, there’s no such thing. Every one of these business ideas requires more know-how (and, yes, often more up-front money) than you’d think at first glance. Let’s look a little closer. Continue reading The 10 Absolute Worst Businesses To Start

Before you incorporate, hire, buy a domain or launch your business: how much do you know about the market? Continue reading What’s the market for your business like? Let’s find out.

Note: This was originally posted by Noah Kagen on LinkedIn. He permitted us to re-post it here. Thanks, Noah!

New year, new results. Right? Wrong.

If you focus on results from the start, you’re doomed to fail.

Instead, I practice The Law of 100:

A quick backstory. Continue reading The Law of 100

I had the pleasure of discussing several key insights of small business ownership with Anthony Campo, Leadership and Organizational Development Consultant at Battle Ready Business. Campo believes in exploring all the elements involved in building a successful, Battle Ready Business. Those elements encompass Sales, Marketing, Leadership, Finance and Personal Development. On his Be Battle Ready podcast, he does the interviewing. We traded places for this blog. Continue reading How to Make Your Business Battle Ready – an Interview With Anthony Campo

We interviewed Matt Zertuche of Paymintz recently to ask him about how non-traditional industries can accept credit card and crypto payments. As the world changes, new ways of collecting payments from customers are adapting and we were incredibly interested in knowing more about this topic. Continue reading How To Accept Credit Card Payments When You Are in a High Risk Industry

“It takes a lot of intention to create a great system.”

Before we start, the key reason we pursued an interview with Rey was that he inspired us during a talk he gave. His premise was that you can identify what you need to change in a business to make improvements. However, if the team doesn’t believe that the changes will help or that individuals don’t believe they can change, then generally nothing will improve. Continue reading Want to Improve Your Business? Your Teams? Hit Goals? Then Listen to Rey Soriano!

Recently, we interviewed David Berstein of Berstein Law in Newport Beach, CA about intellectual property questions that many startups may have. Many of our questions were answered, but if you have specific questions, feel free to contact David at (949) 783-4210. Continue reading Copyrights & Intellectual Property Basics for Startups: An Interview with David Berstein

Commercial real estate can be a confusing area for new businesses and startups. It’s very different from residential real estate.

So, it’s good to find someone who can advise you. Luckily, we’ve interviewed Tom Abel, and he’s got plenty of pearls of wisdom to share. He’s a commercial real estate broker who helps attorneys, Certified Public Accountants (CPAs), insurance, technology, and medical companies find commercial spaces to buy or lease.

We asked him to provide a few top tips that he feels every new small business and startup should know before considering their first office space.

So, let’s dive in! Continue reading Commercial Office Space Leasing Tips and Secrets for Tech Startups – An Interview With Tom Abel