[ad_1] As a small business owner, you’ve probably experienced both feast and famine. Sometimes money is tight. And while the hope is that the lean periods only pop up once in a while, sometimes you’ll need a little (or big) infusion of money to keep pushing forward. The Need for …

[ad_1] What’s the difference between an employee and a subcontractor? Entrepreneur Network partner Mark J. Kohler understands why business owners hate asking this question: It’s tedious. Rather than properly examine the difference, many business owners choose instead to take a shortcut and simply label everyone in question a subcontractor, giving …

[ad_1] Chicago’s startup ecosystem is exploding. But so are others all across the country and around the world, with varying levels of success. I wanted to talk about the mix of ingredients that are needed to make a startup ecosystem thrive over time, so leaders in your local communities can have a blueprint to follow …

[ad_1] In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Jeff Rose explains how he turned around his financials, going from being in debt and leaning heavily on credit cards to today, when he is a millionaire. He talks about the bad financial habits he learned from his father growing up, and how …

[ad_1] For many entrepreneurs and freelancers, getting clients to pay — both on-time and at all — is a challenge. It can affect an entrepreneur’s cash flow and sometimes even lead to writing off work that they spent their precious time completing. So, how do you go about getting paid …

[ad_1] By all rights, the benefits to taking care of yourself are pretty obvious. You feel better, you’re more productive and in general can impart more joy out your work and personal life. But at Tokyo-based marketing firm Piala, there is one more perk to not compromising your health — …

[ad_1] Amazon ships an average of 1.6 million packages per day. Yes, per day. According to CNBC, about 55 percent of people start their online shopping searches on Amazon. This means that if you have something to sell and you’re selling online, if you don’t have a presence on Amazon, …

[ad_1] Here’s a classic Silicon Valley contradiction. Virtually every CEO we’ve worked with has read every Steve Jobs biography and has misguidedly concluded the path to early success is to model Jobs’ personality and behavior. At the same time, VCs will tell you that they’ve begun to adopt a “no …

[ad_1] Every business that pre-dated the Internet now faces the same challenge: How to transform to compete in a digital economy? From the financial services industry to global retailers, whether we like it or not, technology has forever changed the way we tell stories, interact with customers, build products, and …

[ad_1] When you get a group of people together day after day, conflict is inevitable. The employees you so carefully screened during hiring interviews aren’t immune, either. They might have had the perfect answers to behavioral questions such as, “How do you handle conflict?” Unfortunately, polished interview responses don’t guarantee a …