Tag Archives : Business plan

I believe that startups need more than skills and money create a successful company. As startups expand and grow, leaders need to consider how to retain paying customers and hire [...]

Successful entrepreneurs possess qualities and characteristics that differentiates them from others. An entrepreneur organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it. Many people have dreams of starting their own [...]

The annual Amazon Web Services (AWS) Start-up Challenge launched in 2007, is a way for promising start-ups to get noticed and compete for an opportunity to win up to $100,000 [...]

Check the reason you are starting-up a new business. Everything starts and ends with your desire to WIN. If you can sell your passion to your investors then you can [...]

Launch stage: finding customers BEFORE you start your company. Incorporating, Accounting, Legal ramifications, contracts Finding the first customers Evolving from being a doer to a manager of employees and then [...]

Charles Barkley, the National Basketball Association Hall of Fame power forward also known as “Sir Charles” has announced on his website a contest called “Earn Chuck’s Bucks.” He’s calling for [...]

Martin Zwilling is a veteran startup mentor, executive, blogger, author, tech professional, and angel investor. In these tough economic times, more and more people are turning to entrepreneurship as an [...]

Contegix, a managed hosting and Internet infrastructure company, today announced NoWait as the winner of the Start-up, Boot-upTM competition. NoWait, a cloud-based seating management service for restaurants, is one of [...]

Most businesses need resources to get off the ground. Others rely on their experiences from the past. If you need assistance, inspiration, success stories in your niche business, guides and [...]

Contegix, a managed hosting and Internet infrastructure company, has announced a new national start-up competition that will provide more than $75,000 in “Enterprize” technology tools and office space to a [...]

Martin Zwilling is a veteran startup mentor, executive, blogger, author, tech professional, and angel investor After the idea, it’s all about execution. I often hear from investors that a great [...]

Sarah Prevette is the CEO & founder of Sprouter. Sprouter is where founders get help with their startups. Sprouter allows entrepreneurs to get curated answers to small business questions from [...]

Starting a business requires some level of skill. Whatever your reason for starting a business, and whatever type of business you are starting-there are some universal best practices for budding [...]

Martin Zwilling is a veteran startup mentor, executive, blogger, author, tech professional, and angel investor Startups ask me “How much money should I ask for?” The simple answer is the [...]

Google has chosen Cape Town as a pilot for its new technology incubator called Umbono which aims to bring together seed capital, Google mentorship, angel investors, local tech stars, entrepreneurs [...]