Advice For The Young At Heart
10 Reasons Why You Should Join A Business Plan Competition
With high confidence and ego, you said to yourself “I want to be an entrepreneur”. You have a great business idea and vision. One possible way to start is to join a business plan competition.
Why I Want To Be An Entrepreneur
Let’s face it. It’s cool but tough to be an entrepreneur. Penn Olson talks to four Singapore entrepreneurs.
[ADV] Startup Capital: How Much Is Enough?
It is important to know how to compute the amount of money you need as capital to get the business running.
50 Excellent Lectures For The Small Business Owner
There's more to learn about business than what you get out of classes and textbooks. Bschool.com puts together 50 of the best resources on lectures to help the small business owner.
What You Need To Know To Go International
Founder of Ballou PR and 500 Mentor Colette Ballou gives some advice on what US startups should think about when they are considering going global.
[ADV] Singapore’s Successful Young Entrepreneurs And How They Did It
We name some of Singapore’s pride and their secrets – our entrepreneurs who made it big at a young age, from just an idea to a successful business enterprise.
Internships.com On What Employers Want In Interns
If you're a college student, you're probably aware that internships play a vital role for your success in job acquisition and retention.
Attention Seeking: A Guide For Startups
People need attention: it’s a normal and healthy part of life. And getting attention is marvellous: it makes you feel smart, sassy and confident and leads you to perform better in life, at work and in the bedroom.
Get Out Of Job Jail
Are you in Job Jail? How can you tell if you're stuck in underemployment? Audrey LeGrand, author of How To Get Out of Job Jail, shares some resume health tips.
[ADV] What Goes Into A Business Plan?
Great ideas are born out of a problem waiting to be solved and soon-to-be discovered intelligent solutions. How exactly would you be able to discern a great business plan? We say write it down!
10 Most Successful College Entrepreneurs of All Time
If you’ve got a great idea, there’s no reason to hold off acting on it until you have a degree. Just ask these college entrepreneurs.
6 Steps To Take Before Starting A Business
Are you tired of working for someone else? Do you think starting your own business could get you off the unemployment line? Think again. The failure rate for new businesses within the first 5 years is as high as 90 percent.
Nine Best Practices For Using Social Media To Win Your Dream Job
Author Maribeth Kuzmeski, who wrote The Connectors: How the World's Most Successful Businesspeople Build Relationships and Win Clients for Life, believes that in today’s tough employment market, your social media presence can make you or break you.
6 Ways To Find A $100 Million Idea
Ever wonder how entrepreneurs come up with brilliant business ideas that turn into successful companies? Robert Jordan interviewed 45 company founders, each of whom started, grew, and sold a company for $100 million or more, or took their company public for $300 million or more. Here are some of their secrets.
Six Tips For Small Businesses Waiting For Economic Recovery
Business consultant Jim Muehlhausen, author of "The 51 Fatal Business Errors and How to Avoid Them", believes that even as the U.S. economy recovers, small businesses may feel the pressure ease but that doesn’t mean it’s “business as usual”.
Some Tips For Killing Giants
Marketing and branding expert Stephen Denny shares some tips on how startups can go up against bigger competition.
Billionaires With The Best Jobs
Guys like Zuckerberg and Jay-Z are ruling the billionaires list year after year for their innovations in media, design and music.
10 Big Businesses That Started In A Garage
These stories of companies that rose from obscurity to be multi-million (or billion) dollar industries can be a big inspiration.
Three Start-up Lessons From The Founders of Chalkboard
Penn Olson founder and editor Willis Wee gets three lessons on running a start-up from the founders of Chlkboard, a location-based advertising service.
10 Things I Learned About Entrepreneurship
Willis Wee of Penn-Olson.com shares ten things he's learned as an entrepreneur.
How To Build Business Credit
When you are starting out as a business, it can become obvious pretty quickly that you need to establish some sort of business credit.
The Creativity Killer
Business mentor John Bittleston, founder of Terrific Mentors, ponders over the idea of creativity and the essential rules surrounding it.
Main Steps To Starting A Business
You've got a business idea. Unfortunately, you don't know anything about business solutions or what you have to do to actually get your company off the ground. Don't worry: Choosewhat.com's James Kim shares a quick walk-through.
Be a Benevolent Dictator (And Eight More Lessons For Getting Your Stalled Start-up Off...
If you’ve been afraid to act on your great business idea, Michael Feuer says now —yes, NOW —is the time to make your move. To help you get started e offers a few of the lessons he learned building his own well-known, successful businesses.
The Top Nine Challenges Of Growing an Entrepreneurial Business And How To Tackle Them
The hardest step entrepreneurs take is getting their start-up off the ground once and for all. The second hardest step is growing it into the best business it can be. What today’s entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs must remember is that a lot can be learned from the successful entrepreneurs who came before them. Professor Ed Hess provides advice on how to navigate common growth challenges derived from the many successful businesses he’s studied.
4 Tips For Entrepreneurs From LinkedIn’s APAC Head
Willis Wee of Penn-Olson.com gets some entrepreneurship advice from Arvind Rajan, LinkedIn.com's APAC head.
The Entrepreneur’s Battle Between Vision And The Market
One company’s story of how customers realigned their vision.
[Video] Musicians And Entrepreneurs, By Derek Sivers
Here's a video of a presentation given during MusicCamp SG earlier this year by serial (music) entrepreneur Derek Sivers entitled "Musicians and Entrepreneurs".
Monetizing Your Platform Strategically – Go Beyond The Book
With easy-to-use, off-the-shelf publishing software, even producing a good looking book isn’t that difficult. Books are being written and published at the highest rate in history. It’s selling books that is the problem.
Tips To Avoid Business Failure
Although there is never a guarantee a business will be successful after taking so and so steps, a business can always reduce its risks and give it the best opportunity to succeed. Implement these tools to keep your business from failing.