Allen Ackerman and Ryan Brogan sit in their two-person office on the third floor with windows overlooking Lafayette Street in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood. On a warm July day, the light streams into their tidy workspace where a mini fridge with cool refreshments sits under the windowsill. A logo on the glass door of their office […]

These days, most social media advice for small businesses really translates as advice for using Facebook and Twitter. Are you as sick of hearing about those two platforms as we are? There’s no doubt that businesses can leverage tremendous value out of those two behemoths. But what about other forms of social media—social media that […]

For most entrepreneurs planning a move, networking falls somewhere below “forward the mail” and “buy more bubble wrap” on their to-do list. People often assume that the best time to meet local business owners and start building their customer base is immediately after they’ve settled into their new location, but my experience has taught me […]

How many times have we heard the story of a Stanford undergrad who built a website/app that reached a million users, got funded by guys like Sequoia Capital, and sold to Yahoo! for millions of dollars before they turned 30? These are the great Blockbuster stories swarming the web, but what about the unsuccessful ones? […]

So many articles begin with the same type of sentence: “Internet marketers and small business owners have billions of consumers at their fingertips.” The truth is, there might be an innumerable audience at the other end of your computer screen, but every savvy business owner and marketer is just as aware of that fact as […]

Starting a business is no small undertaking whether it’s to bring world-famous chili to the mass market or to manufacture a revolutionary medical device. From product development to business development, a founder has an ever-growing and never-ending, to-do list. When it comes to legal issues, those are the items that are usually pushed to the […]

As a business owner and mother of two active boys, my life is constantly hectic. When I started my company, I began pouring more and more hours into my work, which was stressful for my family and me. The working trap is normal. Americans spend about 8.7 hours per day at work. Small business owners […]

Entrepreneurs need to determine which VCs or angel investors to seek to raise money from. Don’t waste your time with investors who aren’t likely to be interested in your business—either because of the company’s industry, stage or otherwise. Some of the more important considerations when choosing investors include: Industry Focus Each investor has a different […]