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What’s Standing In The Way Of Your Startup? Many challenges that pop up along the way to getting a startup off the ground can be avoided, or the impacts lessened, with due preparation. Not having set plans in place for all areas of your business is just begging for trouble. True, you certainly don’t need … Read more

How To Pick A Name For Your Startup It’s less than ironic when entrepreneurs go through all the complexities of starting a business, and find themselves still stuck for a name. A basic requirement for a title might be to pick something that will reflect your intention or inspiration behind your business. One thing is … Read more

How Can Startups Set Up Bookkeeping Even if you have superior accounting skills, the idea of setting up a bookkeeping system for your startup can still feel like a monstrous undertaking. But with a proper approach, the thought doesn’t have to loom like a mountain’s path.  With good organization and the right software, the process … Read more

When Is It Time To Scale Up Your Startup? As any business owner can tell you, few things involved in running a company will be fully predictable or predetermined. Gauging when it’s time to go bigger, or maybe trim down, can almost be a sixth sense. Just like knowing when to start a business, timing … Read more

Summer Time Startup Challenges “Summertime, and the living is easy,” they say. For some industries like hospitality and tourism, business is in prime gear, but for some sectors and regions the summer is a time to slow down and assess previous quarters then plan for the back to school and the holiday rush.  The summer … Read more

Don’t Let Your Startup Fall Apart With springtime blooming and summer just around the bend, it’s far too easy to become caught up with everyone around you winding down. But for a small business owner, especially one who might work from home, distractions can be detrimental and leave you scrambling to catch up when the … Read more

 When Is The Right Time To Start Your Business No matter how fated some things seem, when it comes to executing our dreams, there is no preset plan for when and where it will happen. If you have the ideas, the clear plans, and life seems to align so that your goals could possibly come … Read more

Human resources For Your Startup One of the easiest ways to increase office efficiency and improve employee experience is to make your human resources virtual. The latest software platforms allow you to automate tedious management systems so you can focus on doing the work, rather than how it will be done. Zenefits is absolutely free, … Read more

Common Challenges For Small Businesses It’s no secret that half of all small businesses will fail within their first five years. Rather than let those odds take anyone off course from their dreams, it’s possible to prepare for potential challenges by looking at areas that tend to be weak spots for other companies. They say … Read more

Filing Taxes As A Small Business With almost enough time into the new year for recovering from the holiday season, Tax Day fast approaches. No matter if you’re a new startup or a neighborhood fixture, there’s never a wrong time to establish good practices for record-keeping that will have you prepared to get the most … Read more