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Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: Hamilton County Alliance
Location: Carmel, IN,
IN,
United States
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x 703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/HCA/
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: Maysville Community & Technical College
Location: Maysville,
KY,
USA
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/MCTC/
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: Lake Erie College
Location: Painesville,
OH,
USA
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/LEC/
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: Stark State College
Location: Canton,
WV,
USA
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/StarkState/
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: Northland Community & Technical College
Location: Thief River Falls,
MN,
USA
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/Northland/
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: Iowa Valley
Location: Marshalltown,
IA,
USA
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/Marshalltown/
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: Iowa Valley
Location: Marshalltown,
IA,
USA
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/Marshalltown/
Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour
The Extreme Tour is an experiential event that has travelled to over 45 colleges and has shared the entrepreneurial mindset with over 9000 students! Event includes high-profile young entrepreneurs as keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, and networking.
Venue: University of Rochester
Location: Rochester,
NY,
USA
Phone: (800) 930-8021 x703
Website: http://www.journeypage.com/events/UOR/
Videos
What the Business Plan Expert Knows
Dave Lavinsky, co-founder of business plan developer Growthink, has helped write over 1,000 business plans. He describes common misconceptions and what potential investors want to see.
Web Sites
'Turning Your Dream Business Into Your Bread & Butter' Hits #1 on Amazon
Having hit # 1 on Amazon's "Small Business & Entrepreneurship/New Business Enterprises" List, Ellen Springer's new book, "Turning Your Dream Business Into Your Bread & Butter," offers excellent advice and tips to help entrepreneurs start a new business, and then ensure that it stays healthy.
10 Steps to Open for Business
Use our proven, step-by-step process to help you achieve startup success. Read, watch, listen, download, discuss, take action and, most importantly, Start It Up!
8 Top Tips for Young Entrepreneurs
Online start-up businesses run by young adults are an increasingly common phenomenon. A commonly overlooked demographic, however, are the real youth - those under 18 years of age. With online businesspeople facing very low barriers to market entry, many tech-savvy kids are getting in on the act and taking advantage of the opportunities that abound.
An Introduction to Business Plans
Why is a business plan so vital to the health of your business? Read the first section of our tutorial on How to Build a Business Plan to find out.
Borrower beware
Business owners less likely to get loans when careless mistakes appear on applications & business plans.
Brand Management: The Hilfiger Lessons
It has been quite a decade for Tommy Hilfiger. During the 90s, it seemed his brand could do no wrong. The business experienced meteoric growth and, by 2000, was generating $2bn in worldwide sales.
But then came the new century, and Hilfiger struggled to maintain the momentum. Tommy would learn some of the key lessons of brand management the hard way.
Business Plan: Your Blueprint For Success
The thought of writing a business plan is so formidable that many small business owners never get around to tackling the job. Don't let the business planning process scare you.
Business Plans - An Outline for the New Entrepreneur
A business venture is much different from a hobby in as much as your business involves substantial monetary investment and consumes a lot of your energy and time, and that is why it demands a different approach altogether. You can not afford to have a casual attitude with respect to your planning. Even if you are great at visualizing and know perfectly well where you want to take your business after a certain period of time, you should take the time to put your plan in black and white.
Business Startup Checklist
You've decided to start a business. This is both an exciting and demanding time. The checklist below is meant to help new business owners by providing a list of the most common startup steps. Depending on your particular industry, additional steps may be required for your business.
Careful Planning Can Save Entrepreneurs
Going from salary slave to self-made mogul takes careful planning. So before you spend a penny, figure out who needs your product or service, how you expect to sell it and whom you'll compete against.
Create a Savvy Marketing Plan
Wanting to make a million is great, but how do you go from startup to seven-figure receivables? Successful business owners know that a combination of careful planning, solid homework and strategic implementation drive sales. Here's how you create a workable plan for your firm.
Do you need a business plan?
Whether you "need" a plan or not, you want to plan because planning is management. Maybe you don't have to print it as a formal document, but think of a plan as the first step in planning. Dwight Eisenhower said it: "The plan is useless. Planning is essential."
Elevator Speech Essentials
Terri Sjodin, founder and principal of Sjodin Communications, a public speaking and sales training company, goes over the six components of a successful three-minute elevator speech.
Five Qualities Every Start-Up Must Have
The venture capital industry can seem, at times, opaque. But, although it might seem like there is a good deal of hocus pocus involved in the funding process, the things that any venture capital company is looking for are actually quite basic and logical.
Free Business Plan How To
For entrepreneurs in need of some free business plan advice and support, find the free templates and assistance you are looking for here.
Get Help With Your Plan
By the time you've read this guide and tried your hand at a few of the various components of a plan, you should be ready to go ahead and complete your own. However, there's always room for improvement, and there are a number of resources you can tap into to increase your expertise in plan writing.
Help for Minority Entrepreneurs
A new program aims to help aspiring business owners reach for the stars. Kauffman Foundation director Daryl Williams explains how it works.
How to Create an Income Statement
As a part of the business plan's financial section or as a routine quarterly report, the income statement is a crucial part of your business success.
How to Gather Competitive Research
To formulate an effective corporate strategy, it's essential to understand two basic questions: What is your company doing, and what are your competitors doing?
How to Overcome Barriers of Entry
Small-scaled businesses may find it difficult to enter new markets where established players already exist. Here are some suggestions to overcome these barriers of entry.
How to Write a Marketing Plan
The marketing plan describes how your business name will get into the minds of your potential clients, and then what to do about it when they come knocking.
How to Write a Winning Business Plan
The founder of 18-employee Seahorse Power details the process behind the company's award-winning business plan - and uses an annotated version of it to offer advice.
Learn how to deliver a masterful Elevator Pitch
You can picture it - you step onto an elevator and standing right there is your dream financier. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Your pulse quickens. Your body temperature rises. You know this is your shot.
No Business Plan is Too Young for a Facelift
You did everything by the book: You put together a thorough business plan, you followed it, and whatever success you're now enjoying proves it was a solid plan. That doesn't mean the business plan that served you well as a startup business is what it should be now that it’s helped you realize the first part of your dream. To get to the heart of that passionate vision, your now operational business plan might need some fine tuning.
Plan Your Plan
Before you put pen to paper, find out how to assess your business's goals and objectives.
Radiohead Makes Business Plans the New Punk Rock
Radiohead's "pick your own price" release of In Rainbows might have seemed like a one-size-fits-all template for the struggling music biz, but the band's management never harbored such illusions.
Small Business Tools From The SBA
If you are thinking of starting a franchise, or for that matter, any type of small business, there are a multitude of free tools that the SBA has for you to use.
Startup Advice from George Costanza: Do The Opposite
As it turns out, this "do the opposite" strategy works out for George. Things start working out for him. By going against his natural instincts, he ends up doing things "right". He's noticed. He comes off as being different.
So, what does this all mean for startups?
Startup Showdown 2008
FSB teamed up with Rice University in a contest to find the best student business plans in the nation.
StartupNation's 5 Startup No-No's
We spend a lot of time giving advice on the things you absolutely should do in order to be successful as an entrepreneur. So, bucking the typical modus operandi around here, we figured it was time to focus on the ugly stuff you absolutely should not do. Sometimes, tough love is the best kind of support there is.
And the no-no's are...
Strategies: Here's how to set up a business
My friend is about to retire, but he's much too young to stop working. So he turned to me for help with the basics of setting up a business. One of the first things he wanted to know was, "What do I have to do - legally - to set up a business?"
So let's start with some fundamentals...
The 10 Biggest Business Plan Mistakes
Former venture capitalist and angel investor Christine Comaford-Lynch has reviewed hundreds of business plans. She explains where many entrepreneurs go wrong.
The Best Business Plan Tools
We asked 10 startup gurus to each name a favorite resource, excluding their own books or Web sites, to help readers create a winning business plan.
The Perils of Step-by-Step Planning
Everybody wants business planning laid out in a simple step-by-step way. The idea is attractive: Start here, go there next, then there and, hooray, you're done.
What to do if your business is a miserable failure
Creating your own business at a young and impressionable age can and will prepare you for life. It's a time for growth, learning, and for making mistakes that you probably can't afford to make when you're older. These same mistakes will pave the way for your success.
When a Goal Becomes a MUST!
People who achieve their goals are those who are truly committed to get what they want. To them, their goals are not a mere wish or a weak desire. They are an absolute must.
When a goal becomes a must, we operate from a very different frame of mind.
Why Investors Won't Believe Your Projections
Entrepreneurs frequently complain that business angels and venture capitalists don't take the sales growth projections in their business plans seriously. Rather that discounting those projections by 5, 10, 25, or even 50 percent, investors just ignore them.
Whitepapers
Could You Fall in Love with a $300 Robotic Dinosaur?
A decade ago, Caleb Chung helped create Furby, the six-inch-tall robot whose personality evolved as its owner interacted with it. Now he's about to launch his latest creation, Pleo, a $300 robotic dinosaur engineered to relate to an owner on a more personal level.
The Business Plan
Many great businesses have launched without a formal business plan. Those who "sell their way" into business often do it from an idea in their head and may never end up implementing any kind of strategic process.
Use SWOT to Kick-start Your Planning
A SWOT analysis - a look at your business idea's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats - is a good way to kick-start your business planning. Using SWOT to brainstorm in a small business can be a valuable way of "generating new ideas and breaking through standing assumptions."
