Posts Tagged ‘small biz’
Small Business and Startups: Prepare For the Worst
Mike | May 13th, 2013Disaster strikes. Extreme weather events, fires, data storage failures, illness or even the death of a key team member can occur at any time and when something happens, will your small business be prepared? According to ReadWrite, 74% of small businesses do not have a disaster plan and 84% don’t even carry insurance against natural [...]
The Business Plan. Redux.
Mike | May 6th, 2013It has been some time since I last discussed business plans in these blog pages and I thought it might be time for an update. When Ross and I were developing the idea for crowdSPRING we wrote an extensive business plan – over 80 pages of detailed description, research, tables, charts, models, and projections. The [...]
10 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From High School Seniors
Mike | April 22nd, 2013I have written before about things entrepreneurs can learn from people who come from various walks of life. From athletes we can learn the value focus and training, from comics we learn about of risk-taking, from chefs we learn how to stay creativity under great stress, and from musicians we learn the importance of working [...]
Small Business Spotlight: Rent A Green Box
Amanda | April 17th, 2013May through August are the most popular months for relocating and moving, and as anyone who has had to pack up their stuff knows, it is no picnic. Moving takes time and a considerable amount of effort. It’s also expensive. And once it’s over, your new place of residence is filled with empty cardboard boxes [...]
