[ad_1] Securing funding for a startup business is undeniably tricky, but alternative methods give today’s entrepreneurs more options than ever before. Most businesses haven’t really kept pace with the new options. Let’s bust some of those antiquated roadblocks and look at the reality of new options. 1. Startups are too risky. …

[ad_1] Citing strong economic progress, the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise rates for the second time since the financial crisis of 2008 has business owners asking when they’ll see banks tack the increase onto capital costs. Announcing the rise at a press conference, Fed Chair Janet L. Yellen told reporters, …

[ad_1] You have busted your hump to get your product concept fleshed out and gained customer feedback about the importance of your solution. Maybe you even have a prototype and have been engaging with customers in trials. It could even be that you have started to generate initial revenue. Under …

[ad_1] Raising venture funding is never easy, but it would seem that the industry as a whole is trending in a positive if more measured direction. While there has been a slight increase in the amount of money that was invested in the first three months of 2017 compared to …

[ad_1] Rebranding — where a business chooses a new name, symbol or design in order to develop a new identity — is one of the most difficult and uncertain business decisions entrepreneurs face. In addition to overcoming the loyalty and nostalgia of your founders, the name and brand modification you make could potentially destroy …

[ad_1] From Ford Motor Company to eBay and Uber, naming strategies have certainly changed over the past 100 years, according to Bolanile Maté of Be Better Paris. In this video, the marketing expert talks about the evolution of how business owners pick names. She says that at the turn of the century, there really …

[ad_1] As any entrepreneur can attest, there is a lot to do when starting your own business. It’s easy to make mistakes in the early days but you can avoid some of them if you know what they are. Many start-up entrepreneurs fall into these all-too-common traps, which can bog …

[ad_1] If Donald J. Trump still carried the family moniker of Drumpf, do you think he’d emblazon it atop his hotels? Do you think that more than 60 percent of primary voters in his home state of New York would have chosen him?  Related: Get Over the Business-Naming Hump With These 5 Strategies As …

[ad_1] If you need a crucial reminder that your business’s name is something you should obsess over, take a close look at the Antonin Scalia School of Law. If you’re like me, you’re probably already chuckling. Yes, the acronym for the school is ASSoL, or ASSLaw. Hilarious. I bet the …

[ad_1] The name of my business changed this month. It wasn’t my idea. A company five states away, with a similar name, decided that their customers might be confused by my business. We both have brick-and-mortar businesses that perform anti-aging treatments, and we both serve a mostly local clientele. The …