6 Essential Tools Your Startup Can’t Live Without
Believe it or not, the year and the decade are coming to a close. Now is the time time for business owners to start planning for an uncertain year ahead, not to mention the years...
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How Entrepreneurs are Shaping the Future of the Food Industry
Did you know that consumer demand for alternative foods, including meat substitutes and plant-based ingredients, increased by 17 percent in 2018? While we often hear about big-name companies launching new products to appeal to changing consumer tastes...
5 ROI-Boosting Tips to Improve Your Startup’s Efficiency in 2020
“Move fast and break things” is one of the most famous Silicon Valley axioms. Made popular by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, the saying became a mantra for the way an entire startup culture operated. That’s changing, though,...
3 Ways Technology Can Revive Your Recruiting and Hiring Strategy
Thankfully, gone are the days of employers sifting through stacks of paper resumes to find the best candidates out there. With just the click of a button, recruiters can search for candidates nationwide and narrow...
StartupNation’s 4th Annual Year in Review: 2019 Edition
This year, we published more than 500 blog posts on topics to help our readers and aspiring entrepreneurs to start, grow and manage a business. Below, we'd like to highlight some of our most popular...
Making Business Connections in the Digital Age: Tips for Networking Offline
More and more, business owners are finding ways to make money online and monetize their audiences. It is undisputed that having an online presence in today’s digital world is a must, and a part of...
How to Move Your Brick-and-Mortar Retail Business Online
In today’s retail world, increasingly more and more transactions are occurring online. Add to this the fact that some of the world’s biggest retailers are racing to increase their share of online sales revenue, and...
8 Graphic Design Trends Your Startup Should Know About in 2020
Over the past few years, you've probably seen an explosion of bright colors, loud patterns and innovative designs when it comes to graphic design. However, those bold techniques are going to take a big step back...
The Road Less Traveled: Why More Entrepreneurs are Choosing Measured Profitability Over Fast-Paced Growth
Venture capital investment shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon. In 2015, VC funding for U.S startups was at $60 billion; by July of 2019, $62 billion had already been invested. By the end of...
The Most Important Digital Marketing Ad Spend Insights for Startups in 2020
When you’re running a new startup, you likely have a small budget for marketing and advertising, which means every dollar (and every data point) counts. How can you optimize your limited ad spend to reach...
Why Fintech Startups Fail (and How You Can Avoid These Mistakes)
Fintechs are one of the hottest trends in the tech industry today. It seems as though everywhere you turn, there’s a new startup trying to get you to open a digital account or use their...
Mind-Blowing Video Marketing Statistics to Step Up Your Marketing Campaign in 2020
In this ever-changing marketing landscape, video remains a clear-cut winner in dominating all channels and platforms. Fueled by the massive increase of social media, video marketing shows no sign of slowing down. Video has become a necessity...
How Your Startup Can Capitalize on Holiday Sales
Bring on the tinsel, the lights and the magic of the holiday season! Why? The “most wonderful time of the year” will take on new meaning for startup businesses this year, especially those that sell...
The Importance of Storytelling and Creating Connections in Entrepreneurship
On this episode of StartupNation Radio, Jeff sits down with two local business owners and entrepreneurs: Vicki Blazier, owner of Willow and Fernn, and Caterina De Falco, owner of Return to the Table, who discuss...
How Personalized Emails Improve Your Customer Experience
More than 293 billion emails are sent and received every day. Cutting through that clutter to reach your target customers can be tough, but the benefits are plentiful. On average, email marketing generates $38 for...
What Will Coworking Look Like in 2020 and Beyond?
Since the world’s first coworking spaces were launched in the early 2000s, the amount of flexible office space has expanded yearly, with an estimated 22,400 coworking spaces now available globally. What began as merely an alternative...
8 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Launching an App
You’ve just finished developing your app and you’re looking to get thousands of downloads. You want users to find your app and tell you how great it is. The problem is: there are all kinds of...
How 5G Will Transform Entrepreneurship (and Give Remote Work a Serious Upgrade)
The remote work phenomenon is well underway. More and more companies across industries are realizing the multitude of benefits that come from going remote, not least of which are an upturn in employee productivity and...
An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Internet Speed: Determining What You Need for a New Business
As you’re getting your new business off the ground, one of your first steps should be picking the internet speed and plan you need. Today, businesses can run nearly every aspect of their operations online,...
5 Ways Seasonal Partnerships Can Benefit Your Business Long-Term
The holidays are all about making spirits merry and bright and in the small business community, this often translates to collaborating together on seasonal partnerships. If you’ve never approached a fellow business before with this...