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How Can I Start My Own Business?

Strategy Driven

Conducting market research along with taking the time to do a full competitive analysis as it pertains to your business is vital to the success of your company. For more information on market research and competitive analysis, utilize this guide from the SBA. Develop a Clear Business Plan.

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Guest Post: An Entrepreneur's Thoughts on Market Incentives & Foreign Aid

Mills Scofield

You will be excited and optimistic about the passion, compassion, thought, analysis, and implementation of this generation. Among this group has been a founder of a wildlife foundation, a married Wall Street duo, a management consultant, his digital artist wife, and an urban planner.

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President Obama Can Make Start-Up America Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Cities and counties should become the units of analysis, not the nation. Microfinance (Bangladesh), securitization of revenues (Saudi Arabia), and royalty-pay-back funding (Israel) were all invented overseas. Debt or equity providers, all acting rationally by the way, support just a tiny minority of start-ups.