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: 1. Going blindly into the business Passion is not enough; you need to know what you are getting into. […]
challenges of starting a business
Small Business and Employee Theft
To lose money due to a bad investment decision is one thing, but to lose money because a trusted employee embezzled funds from you is like a double whammy.
Challenges of Working from Home
“I now believe you!,” a friend exclaimed to me the other day. “Working from home is HARD!” My friend’s husband just quit his top-level job to be a full-time consultant working from home. At the top of his list as the most difficult aspect of starting a home business is the part of working from […]
Making the Leap from Employee to Self-Employed
A poster in the Webmaster World forum asked this question: should he quit his 9-to-5 job and focus on his web site? His dilemma is a nice problem to have — a site that he started simply as a hobby became wildly successful that he is now part of the so-called UPS Club of the […]