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Weekly Brief | Tuesday, November 1
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With a slow economy, many people have turned to entrepreneurship as a means to pay the bills. Which begs the question, what’s better today — getting a job or starting a business? We dug deep to find out the numbers and have compared the risk of starting a business to keeping a job. If you’ve ever thought about starting your own company, take a look at our graphic below to help decide if entrepreneurship is right for you…
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★ 26 | via Lendio
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Franchises have the highest success rate of any other type of new business. Today we talk about how to get financing for a franchise through bootstrapping, securing government loans, banks, and through friends and family…
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★ 21 | via Lendio
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Jim Beach, author of “School for Startups,” seems to have one agenda: removing myths that shackle wanna-be entrepreneurs.
In this discussion, Jim’s candid, commonsense approach to starting a successful business might give many people the confidence to jump out of their cubicles and start down their own road of entrepreneurship…
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★ 17 | via Lendio
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If you’ve ever met Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator (YC), you quickly realize that the incubator they run is like a family and they are its attentive parents. They have managed to put a very human face on venture capital, one that appeals to young engineers during their most insecure stage: when they have just begun, or are still deciding whether to begin, their lives as entrepreneurs…
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★ 119 | via TechCrunch
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I put out a call to see what scares entrepreneurs. “Success” was a popular, if clichéd reply. (“Where do I go after I get to the top?”) “Government” and “government interference” were more intriguing ones. Here are ten I found insightful:…
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★ 22 | via Forbes
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Imagine being able to predict what consumers will want before it is available on the market. Imagine not playing catch-up with your product, but being the frontrunner of an amazing solution…
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★ 67 | via Inc.
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Improving productivity is important in any small business, and the topic is often discussed among entrepreneurs. But increased productivity should not always mean working harder. Here’s a look at another strategy and some other important tips for small business entrepreneurs today…
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★ 67 | via Small Business Trends
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As is abundantly clear from all the entrepreneurial activity on display at TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing, China is growing as a startup center. In the third quarter of 2011, $1.3 billion in venture capital poured into China, up 84 percent, according to Dow Jones VentureSource…
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★ 179 | via TechCrunch
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Banks aren’t making small business loans like they used to.
Since peaking at nearly 2.5 million in June of 2007, the number of small loans to businesses has plummeted 39 percent, data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) shows…
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★ 24 | via Forbes
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Yu had both the vision and the track record to see his $21 million Koreana Plaza Market project through but he needed to find millions more in cash, a difficult task in this era of tight credit.
That’s where the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 504 loan program came in…
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★ 18 | via Sacramento Bee
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China’s bank regulator has ordered lenders to offer further help for smaller companies struggling with debt because of difficulties in obtaining credit…
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★ 29 | via Business Insider
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