I am looking forward to the launching of Zopa http://www.zopa.com/ZopaWeb/ in the US, the UK site that matches up borrowers and lenders in a peer-to-peer online lending service. Zopa is changing the way people are borrowing money across the pond — allowing people who can never get a bank loan a chance to find lenders [...]

Wedding is big business. According to the Association of Wedding Professionals http://www.afwpi.com/wedstats.html 2,226,000 weddings occurred in the US from June 2004 to June 2005 (CDC) spending approximately $85 Billion. Amidst the wedding preparations from reserving a church or place of ceremony to buying flowers to hiring a caterer, a big concern of brides all over [...]

Starting a business is not without obstacles. In fact, the whole process of entrepreneurship seems like overcoming one challenge after the other. When thinking of starting a business, here are the obstacles that you may encounter: Going blindly into the business – Passion is not enough; you need to know what you are getting into. [...]

I have previously written about the success of Starbucks and what small entrepreneurs can learn from the world’s largest coffee chain in the article “Learning from Starbucks: 10 Lessons for Small Businesses.” Business 2.0 has a brief article on how smaller companies thrive under this giant’s shadow. No, none of these companies come close to [...]

One of our most popular pages is the article Starting a Clothing Line or Apparel Manufacturing Business. I guess many people dream of becoming the next Donatella Versace or Tommy Hilfiger. Aside from our article, here are resources on how to start a clothing line Associations:Professional Apparel Association http://www.proapparel.comAmerican Apparel Producer’s Network http://www.usawear.org/Worldwide Responsible Apparel [...]

I have stumbled across the PowerPoint presentation of a New York University professor named Dr. Jeffrey Robinson entitled “Breaking Out or Breaking Through: Wealth Building through Entrepreneurship.” The presentation has loads of information, but I liked best how he presented data and facts to shatter the common myths of entrepreneurship, as follows: Myth 1: “I [...]

If you are running an online business, whether selling products or producing information, it is useful to do some sort of market research for your business. An easy way to do this is through online surveys. While maybe not as scientific with sampling protocols properly observed, online surveys can help you Gauge the interests of [...]

Persistence and patience are important attributes entrepreneurs must have in order to keep the business going, even if the going gets tough. But how do you know when to throw in the towel? How do you know it is time to end the business? When I was running a video store in the 80s, I [...]