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How to Identify and Offset Risk to Build a Business That Lasts

The following is excerpted from "Rogue Waves: Future-Proof Your Business to Survive and Profit from Radical Change" by Jonathan Brill (McGraw Hill, August 2021). Netscape founder Marc Andreesen, now a prolific startup investor, describes entrepreneurial...

byJonathan Brill

August 17, 2021

How to Crack Your Life’s Purpose and Unlock Your True Calling

Inspiration is everywhere. The business of personal development coaching and live or virtual events that “transform your life and 10X your revenue” has exploded in the last 10 years or so. But is the proliferation...

byEric Lochtefeld

May 30, 2021

COVID-19 Accelerated Innovation: How Can Your Startup Embrace Change Moving Forward?

The COVID-19 pandemic was a catalyst that accelerated innovation and change in almost every industry. What used to take some businesses five years to accomplish remarkably took them only five months during the pandemic. From...

byWilliam Putsis

May 11, 2021

Why Confidence is Crucial to Your Success

Successful entrepreneurs all have something big in common: courage! According to the Hiscox American Courage Index, business owners show a higher level of courage than the general population, and for good reason. It takes confidence to...

byStephanie Breedlove

June 27, 2017

Babson College Professor Shares the Number One Characteristic of Successful Entrepreneurs

The following excerpt is provided exclusively to StartupNation by "The Entrepreneur's Playbook: More than 100 Proven Strategies, Tips, and Techniques to Build a Radically Successful Business" by Leonard C. Green with Paul Brown © 2017...

byLeonard C. Green

June 24, 2017

The Benefits of Local Payment Acceptance Companies

Some of the trendier merchant services companies are popular with small business owners looking to accept credit card payments. It may be easy at first with the initial card reader you’re given. However, you then end...

byDavid Iafrate

November 14, 2016

Taking a Leap of Faith

Taking a Leap of Faith Today's Quote is from Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard, 20th Century American Heiress, who said: “Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith.” Helping high-integrity, growth oriented individuals...

byBarry Demp

May 6, 2015

The Technical Risk of IT Startups: What an Investor Should Know

7 Technical Risks of IT Startups Implementing a startup project, regardless of its nature, is associated with a number of risks that need to be taken into consideration. When a project is implemented properly, the...

byVasiliy Soloshchuk & Vitaliy Koval

November 18, 2014

Richard Branson’s “Luck”

I just read this in the May 14 issue of The New Yorker and wanted to pass it along. Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin Atlantic (and about 130 other "Virgin" brands) says about entrepreneurship: I...

byJack Burris

May 23, 2007