Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 04:46AM 1) Business Card Blueprint: On a piece of paper or computer, do a draft of how you would like your business card to look. You can google the search term ‘sample business cards’ to get ideas (http://www.google.com/). If you are still developing your company’s identity (logo, colors, etc.), you may want to get advise from experts such as NYC Business Solutions...
Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 08:55PM Revenue forecasting could be one of the most challenging yet interesting tasks when developing a Business Plan. One way to approach this activity is to first break down revenues into variables (i.e. what do revenues for a particular business really mean?). For example, restaurant revenues may be composed of:
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 12:40PM Being a business planning professional, I continually am reading articles and blogs on the subject. These articles and blogs often have polarizing titles that range from business plans are essential to business plans are a waste of time. My take away from reading many of these articles is that the authors mainly agree that business planning should be an integral part...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 11:08AM As a second follow-up to my original piece two weeks back on “Funding for the Rest of Us Entrepreneurs”, I would like to discuss a second area of alternative funding, that being the Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). CDFIs provide financial...
Friday, June 4, 2010 at 01:49AM I received a comment to last week’s blog, “Funding for the Rest of Us Entrepreneurs”, asking for specific alternative lending sources that start-ups could access. I had mentioned peer-to-peer financing as a potential funding growth area. Peer-to-peer financing or crowd financing are financial transactions between individuals without the intermediation or participation of a traditional financial institution. Peer-to-peer financing...