Of the 51,000 facilities in the U.S., 21,000 are held by
small entrepreneurs who own one facility, reports the association.
And with cryptocurrency super-mines set up in places like China and Venezuela, where manpower and cheap electricity are plentiful, it can seem daunting for
small entrepreneurs who are trying to compete.
Not exact matches
Loans: Banks provide
small business loans to
entrepreneurs who can prove their idea can bring about a positive change.
Banks provide
small business loans to
entrepreneurs who can prove their idea can bring about a positive change.
Maggie Patterson is a PR strategist
who works with
entrepreneurs and
small businesses to help them learn the building blocks of PR.
The federal healthcare website may be a fiasco, but thankfully there are a number of
entrepreneur - run private insurance operators
who have designed their offerings with
small businesses in mind.
The founding team was comprised of a serial
entrepreneur, a CTO
who had scaled a
small business to hundreds of millions in revenue and a talented business development person with relevant industry experience.
Independent, unaffiliated
entrepreneurs will decide
who wins the
small - business vote in November.
John Stonecipher, the
entrepreneur who launched a helicopter flight school, was recognized at National
Small Business Week.
2013 is sure to be a great year with so many thriving
small businesses and
entrepreneurs who are grabbing the bull by the horns and taking charge!
I have worked with many people
who have made the not - so - nice shift from «
entrepreneur» to «
small business owner» because they failed to accept the constant change that defines entrepreneurial companies.
«We cater to women, mainly those
who are solopreneurs or
small teams,» she told
Entrepreneur at the recent Circular Board female entrepreneurship summit in Houston.
Succeeding as an
entrepreneur takes hard work and persistence because, unfortunately, there is no business - startup fairy
who magically bestows success on
small businesses and their owners.
Marla Tabaka is a
small - business adviser
who helps
entrepreneurs around the globe grow their businesses well into the millions of dollars.
The benefits of trade should be shared more widely, he said, with a system that does more to include poor countries,
small firms, marginalised groups and
entrepreneurs — an apparent nod to anti-globalisation activists
who say that secretive trade talks are exclusively aimed at helping big business.
Trapped by the Tax Code I am the operations manager of a
small publishing company and the son of the
entrepreneur who started the business.
The problem is, most
entrepreneurs can't afford to hire big consulting or business firms to carry out these important jobs, yet the «experts»
who are financially accessible can be inexperienced or have a narrow perspective based only on
small - business scenarios.
Instead, Wills says, David - like
entrepreneurs who decide to take on lumbering corporate Goliaths should focus on finding
small opportunities and then «executing them to perfection.»
This pain is especially acute for
entrepreneurs and
small business owners,
who may not be able to justify full - time hires and
who may have to compete against larger companies.
Another place to look for guidance for what's really going on with
entrepreneurs is the alternative lenders
who specialize in
small business lending.
If you're an
entrepreneur or
small business owner
who has previously experienced success do you know how to replicate that success?
Working with
entrepreneurs and
small - business owners
who are generating $ 300,000 in revenue, I've seen that their decision to have their LLC taxed as a corporation and make the S - corp election cuts their total tax liability by one - third.
There's a very
small fraternity of
entrepreneurs who have gone public, and the cool thing was they all want to talk about it and pay it back to others.
According to StickK.com co-founder Ian Ayres, his company's services are not just for
small businesses, but for
entrepreneurs and individuals
who want assistance committing to a goal.
With a curiosity to find out more about how to develop a seven - figure business that consistently performs, I talked with Nicole Wipp, an experienced
entrepreneur and
small business consultant
who has multiple successful businesses that have consistently delivered.
I often get this question from
small - business owners
who typically have just a few employees — the kind of
entrepreneurs who wear many hats.
This so - called «vertical integration» requires
entrepreneurs to «marry a large - scale agricultural business to a
small retail location,» says Gehring,
who owns Patients Choice of Colorado, a company which operates four dispensaries in the state.
The additional delay will certainly darken the spirits of
entrepreneurs who have been patiently waiting to use equity crowdfunding and Regulation A + to raise millions of dollars to start and grow
small businesses.
Entrepreneurs who couldn't scrape together a thousand bucks at start - up were, predictably, running far
smaller shops — 56 employees and $ 13 million in sales on average.
I also highly encourage you to check out SCORE, which connects aspiring
entrepreneurs with
small - business owners
who are willing to offer their time, energy and advice.
Shark Tank is an American reality TV show on ABC that features a panel of business executives and investors (called «Sharks»)
who consider offers and listen to pitches from
entrepreneurs and
small business owners seeking funding for their business, products, or services.
As the founder of a
small - business loan advisory, my firm often receives calls from
entrepreneurs who are stuck in a debt cycle.
«I was the first female executive in a division of a Fortune 50 company [ITT Corporation] that was totally dominated by men,» says Susan Solovic,
who founded the St. Louis - based website for
entrepreneurs called
Small Business TV.
«When you're an
entrepreneur, you're either investing in your own company and trying to hit it out of the park or else you've made money and now you're trying to figure out what to do,» says McWhirter,
who has spent his career working with
entrepreneurs and
small business owners.
There are over 35 million
small business owners,
entrepreneurs and self - employed professionals
who at times feel overwhelmed, unfocused, ineffective and stuck.
As the oft - told story goes, Kamprad was a born
entrepreneur,
who, while growing up on a
small Swedish farm, began selling matches off the back of his bicycle at the age of five.
While in August Trump told the online publication Circa that he would like to see «a carve - out of sorts for our
small - business owners,» that may be too late for
entrepreneurs who were already well down the road raising salaries or switching workers to hourly non-exempt, says Jacqueline Breslin, director of human capital services at TriNet, an HR outsourcing company.
But the number of
entrepreneurs who want to use commerce in ways great or
small as a force not just for profit but also for good is growing.
For
entrepreneurs who can't fulfill a contract on their own, the cluster helps find them another
small - business owner to team up with and complete the project.
There are plenty of
entrepreneurs who keep more of their company and are successful with several
small exits.
The first is the popular view: that
entrepreneurs are people
who run their own companies, the self - employed or
small - business people.
Solo -
entrepreneurs and
small businesses were quickly identified as the people
who needed their customer the most, so they focused their entire business on that demographic.
But after four years of operating a
small startup incubator at a private liberal arts college I've learned a lot about creating business models that work and
who might become a successful
entrepreneur.
The government shutdown is thankfully behind us, but this needless crisis certainly damaged the economy — particularly
small businesses and
entrepreneurs who lost sales and access to programs to help them expand.
The case for expanding investment in
entrepreneurs and
small businesses is clear:
small businesses create two out of every three new private sector jobs and half the people
who work in America own or work for a
small business.
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder — and it turns out the same can be said for the best
small business ideas and the
entrepreneurs who try them.
Entrepreneurs,
small business owners, investors, artisans, or those
who merely have a good idea for a business venture have a new and attainable means of securing capital to grow their dreams.
The workshop highlights how venture capitalists respond to
entrepreneurs who seek funding and assistance, and focuses on teaching the fundamental elements of due diligence, deal structures and terms, legal requirements,
small business strategy and operations, and exit strategies from both the perspective of a venture capitalist and
entrepreneur.
Entrepreneurs like Horn and Wallace and investors like Horowitz and Schreier are among a
small, but growing subset of the start - up community
who are elevating the conversation around healthy entrepreneurship.
But Gleb Polyakov and Igor Zamlinsky, two young
entrepreneurs from Atlanta
who are trying to create a full - blown company around a $ 400 barista - grade home espresso machine, say that risk is no different than for traditional
small businesses.