10 Questions to Ask When Creating Your LinkedIn Company Page
How you can make a company page that generates leads, sales and traffic back to your website.
View Article3 Tips for Doing Deals With Big Companies
A role-playing event at a New York City incubator shows what early-stage startups should look out for when trying to land their first big client.
View Article7 Tips for Writing Better Business Copy
From business plans to marketing copy, being aware of common mistakes can make you a better writer.
View ArticleCan’t Find a Summer Job? Here’s How to Launch an Online Business
If you can't find an internship, don't fret. Consider supplementing your college education with a summer business.
View ArticleBonnaroo Founder’s 9 Tips for Throwing a Blockbuster Bash
Rick Farman, the co-founder of Superfly Presents, the production company behind music festival Bonnaroo, provides young entrepreneurs advice about crafting a successful event.
View ArticleWant to Sell More Online? How ‘Split Testing’ Your Site Can Help
Here are four simple tests that compare different elements of your site to help it generate more leads and sales.
View ArticleHow to Hire the Best Recent Graduates for Your Business
New graduates can give your company a fresh way of looking at business problems. Here are five steps for hiring the best and brightest of the class of 2013.
View ArticleFrom Drab to Fab: How to Embody Co-Working Esthetics on a Budget
Entrepreneur and co-working space expert Liz Elam provides young entrepreneurs tips on creating a productive co-working space on a dime.
View ArticleFake It Until You Make It: How to Believe in Yourself When You Don’t Feel Worthy
Despite achieving success, many business leaders doubt their skills. Here are four tips to help overcome impostor syndrome.
View ArticleHow to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine
Don't let any of your marketing efforts and budget go to waste. Here are three ways to market more effectively and efficiently on a shoestring budget.
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How To Start A Plumbing Business
If you're thinking of launching your own plumbing business, you should first decide on what kind of plumbing business you want to run: service-oriented or product-oriented. You can either go it alone...
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How to Choose a Merchant Service Provider
A few years ago, my car broke down in Chicago, one late Saturday afternoon. I had it towed to the only shop that was still open. The place looked shady and emanated a feeling that I was about to be...
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How to Start Up with Mom and Dad on Your Side
The early bonds you form with mom and dad serve as the foundation of how you’ll interact within any other relationship. They're your very first role models, and they'll be the greatest influences on...
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How to Make Freelancing Work for Future Entrepreneurs
In today’s uncertain job market, many people are freelancing to keep bills under control while looking for a more permanent gig. Though this strategy can obviously help you keep your lights on and food...
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6 Lessons in How to Build a Successful App
The winners: Angry Birds, fart generators, doodles. The losers: almost everyone else. Thanks to fairy-tale success stories, “app-preneurs” abound. But the truth is that most apps lose 76 percent of...
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How to Prevent Your Business From Ruining Your Personal Life
For entrepreneurs and small business owners, long hours can take a toll on personal relationships, leaving your partner feeling taken for granted while you focus on growing your business. Partners...
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5 Foolproof Ways to Boost Your Public-Speaking Skills
For young entrepreneurs, no matter your industry, solid public-speaking skills are invaluable. And if you want to get to the big time one day, chances are, you’ll need to take the stage — a la Mark...
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Whatever You Do, Don’t Not Delegate: 8 Tips for Cultivating Keen Employees
You know the saying, “it’s hard to find good help”? It’s a copout, and here’s why. If you hire people simply to do your bidding, that’s what they’ll do. And, in the process, you’ll constantly field...
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Zappos’ Secrets to Building an Empowering Company Culture
Many business owners talk about their company culture, but often can’t define it. Zappos, the Henderson, Nev.-based online shoe and apparel retailer, is often held as an example of customer- and...
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6 Tips for Taking Your Video Ad Content Mobile
If it wasn’t already, mobile is officially ready for its close up. On Wednesday, Facebook reported that for the first three months of this year it generated $375 million in revenue from mobile ads....
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A Guide to Matchmaking Sites for Co-Founders
Business ideas may be a dime a dozen, but quality co-founders are worth their weight in gold. Not only will they help shoulder the burden of launching a company, oftentimes a keen co-founder is vital...
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3 Hacks to Save on Startup Legal Fees
If not the quarterly tax filing slog, it’s often said that the worst part of being an entrepreneur is maneuvering around legal hurdles. Not only is it a necessary evil, it can also set you back a...
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3 Games To Help You Generate Business Ideas
Too many people say to themselves: “I’m just not creative.” But creativity is a skill that can be developed with practice and dedication. It’s about solving problems and refusing to take no for an...
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Founders Fund’s Geoff Lewis on Getting Acquired, on Your Terms
Tumblr’s 26-year-old founder David Karp just got the kind of windfall that many young entrepreneurs can only dream of. This week, Yahoo announced its $1.1 billion acquisition of the six-year old...
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How to Become a Technical Co-Founder on the Quick
With entrepreneurs groaning about the lack of technology co-founders and CTOs in the market and Code.org projecting there will be one million more tech jobs than people in 2020, intensive developer...
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How to Find the Right Mentor for Your Startup
Editor’s Note: YoungEntrepreneur’s Ask the Expert column seeks to answer questions about everything from starting a business to growth strategies. To follow the column on Twitter — and ask a question —...
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Lessons From Fair Trade on How to Make Your Brand Message More Powerful
If you are looking to pump up the authority of your brand, consider the approach of Fair Trade U.S.A., whose logo is widely recognized and proven to persuade consumers to choose the products it...
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4 Tips for Marketing to Millennials
Millennials, the coveted under-30 market, are highly discerning and tough to attract, unless you know how to reach them. “[Millennials] are extremely impatient with irrelevant information, and they...
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Office Space and Communication Tips and Tricks From a Workplace Anthropologist
As intriguing as it is to watch Don Draper roam the hallways of his beautifully appointed 1960’s advertising agency in Mad Men, we’d probably agree that we’re glad the modern workspace has evolved into...
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Before you Startup: Survival Tips for New Grads
Even if entrepreneurship is on the horizon, getting a job may be your most imminent need. Here, YE’s Antonio Neves offers up some top pointers to recent grads.
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5 Tips for Getting Acquired
Apple’s cash reserves, the latest astronomical Google acquisition, your buddy who just got a seven-figure infusion from some venture capital firm — when you run in startup circles, it can seem like...
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3 Web Tools for Managing Employees Who Work From Home
With more business owners allowing employees to work from home or satellite offices, the need to make sure those workers stay on task and productive is growing. From the employee’s perspective...
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4 Tips for Taking the Awkwardness Out of Networking
There is nothing more awkward than networking. It is one of those tasks that’s constantly pushed to the bottom of my to-do list. However, it remains one of those necessary evils — along with keeping...
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10 Questions to Ask When Pricing Your Product
Great products and services don’t guarantee success. You also have to price them correctly. That requires knowing your customers well and what they’re willing to pay, as well as what your competitors...
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Feeling Productive? 3 Ways to Get Even More Done
Understanding the rhythms of your business and creating routines that help rather than hinder your productivity will give you a significant competitive advantage. I worked with a company founder who...
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How to Maximize Your Networking Connections
Have you ever tasted a martini made by Wayne Gretzky? I have. I don’t remember what he put in it, but who cares. When The Great One mixes your drink, it goes down smooth, no matter what. It was the...
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Startups Get Hacked Too: 5 Security Tips to Implement Today
Securing your company’s data may be the last thing on your mind when launching a startup, but it shouldn’t be. Protecting sensitive material like customer information, employee files, financial...
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Easy Ways to Keep Visitors on Your Website Longer
You’ve worked hard building your website. So why isn’t anybody sticking around to read your content? High bounce rates — that is, a large percentage of visitors who fail to engage with more than one...
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