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Key Strategies for Aspiring Entrepreneurs Considering Franchise Ownership

Strategy Driven

Market Research and Demographic Analysis Conducting thorough market research and demographic analysis is non-negotiable for franchise success. Pinpointing the ideal location for your franchise and understanding the needs of your local market can make or break your business endeavor. Competitive analysis and market positioning.

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How can I start my own business?

Strategy Driven

The businesses that succeed today are all meeting the needs of the customers in the market. If your why is focused on a need in the market Z, your business will be larger than the business that is designed to meet a personal need. If in the beginning, you think of how to exit the plan, you will see a lot of negativity everywhere.

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I Want to Start My Own Business But How?

Strategy Driven

Modern advancements in technology have made it easier than ever before to start your own company and become an entrepreneur. Note that you’ll have some one-time costs like purchasing equipment, getting licenses and permits, as well as doing market research and branding. Decide on a Legal Business Structure.

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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

This awareness helped cement my corporate world exit strategy. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! No longer a company creature; my job was surely destroying my soul.

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Why Tech Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries Struggle to Raise Funds

Harvard Business Review

Most investors liked the business model and the fact that I was educated in Nigeria and knew the market. But there was one problem: my business plan had no exit strategy. They all asked exit strategy questions and my answer, naively, was that we would grow revenue and share profits!

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It Is Time to Fix Our Boardrooms

Harvard Business Review

The markets are uneasy, which is never a good thing. It taints how all other businesses and their boards are viewed, casting a pall over other technology companies and the wider business community. Directors must not be selected on the basis of name recognition and the false sense of security they give to the market.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. Indeed, market share in each service line has grown substantially. car repair shops, hair salons, home improvement stores).