What Startups Can Learn From Moneyball
We here at the cafe love our baseball. Yeah, it can move slow – it requires a lot of thinking, numbers and analysis, and most of all patience, but what’s so intriguing is how baseball is so much like small business. Baseball is a mind boggling game based on a manipulation of uncanny mathematical statistics. [...]
Start up Businesses -Turnkey Websites
It’s a great time to start a small business. One quick and easy way is to purchase a turnkey website using sites like Flippa.com (a site whose biz model is similar to Ebay, but that specializes in the buying and selling of websites for anywhere from the start-up rookie to the more experienced e-commerce business [...]
The Newer, Younger, Better Way to Make Money
It’s crucial to get the inside tips from people who have already found money-making success if you want to follow in their footsteps. That’s why you should check out this video: It’s a bunch of the world’s top young entrepreneurs (like Michael Dunlop and Adam Horwitz) sharing a little bit of inspiration with whoever has [...]
3 Start Up Business MUSTS!!!
So you’ve decided to try to take your finances by the horns and started your own business. Congratulations!!! Whether you started a new full-time enterprise or are still working while operating a business part time until it can support you or whether you just want a small business on the side to supplement your income [...]
The New World of Business-Building Cell Phone Apps
By T. Ciarfalio Most start-ups get underway while their founders are employed full time at a ‘regular’ job, and more than a few future CEOs put their businesses together while still in school. This puts time at even more of a premium for these budding entrepreneurs. Fortunately, technology has come to the rescue. Specifically cell [...]
Catching Up on Child Labor Laws
By T. Ciarfalio Integrating your teen into your family business, your job or even a side business carries a number of benefits. It can be a terrific way for them to learn responsibility, earn money, and prepare them for the workplace. But one of the first steps a responsible parent should take is understanding the [...]
Astonishing Companies Built by Teens
By T. Ciarfalio In an earlier posting we recommended hiring your teen to help you with your business. Today, we want to tell you about entrepreneurs who started their businesses when they were just teens. These young go-getters were featured in a recent American Express Open Forum article entitled, 10 Awesome Companies Built by Teens. [...]
Starting A Consultancy Business
By T. Ciarfalio Entreprenuer.com has published their top three strategies for starting a consulting business in their online posting dated September 2, 2011. It’s a lucrative proposition. According to a 2007 Harvard Business school analysis, the U.S. consulting industry generates nearly $100 billion dollars in revenues each year. Depending on your industry and location, you [...]
Starting Up in a Down Economy
By T. Ciarfalio Ambitious entrepreneurs don’t have to put their ideas on hold during a down economy. If you choose to forge ahead, despite the current downturn, you’ll be in good company. Entrepreneur, Fredrick W. Smith, began FedEx, in 1973, during the oil crisis. In spite of the embargo on oil exports established by several [...]
Carl Schramm on The Lean Startup
By T. Ciarfalio For those of you who haven’t yet had the pleasure, meet Carl Schramm, co-author of Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and president of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The Kauffman Foundation is the world’s leading organization dedicated to creating new firms and understanding their role in economic growth. At its helm since 2002, [...]