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3 Keys to Getting a Better Deal for Your Startup

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3 Keys to Getting a Better Deal for Your Startup Making the most of your money will be crucial to your success. Image credit: Rasstock | Getty Images Nathan Resnick   - GUEST WRITER As a startup, chances are, you are strapped for cash. This means you should always be on the lookout for the best deal. Whether it is to provide food for your office or to get to your next meeting, making the most of your money will be crucial to your success. For employees and CEOs, finding the best deal often lies in the up and coming on-demand economy. What started as a way to hail private cars on Uber, has turned into a growing industry fueled by companies like  Wolfie , which enables you to search and receive deals in real time. Related:  The 5 Stages Startups Must Go Through to Make That First $1 Million Startups should be using startups to survive. As an example, on a recent business trip to Manhattan, I used Wolfie to find a great deal on a local Italian res...
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3 Keys to Getting a Better Deal for Your Startup

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3 Keys to Getting a Better Deal for Your Startup Making the most of your money will be crucial to your success. Image credit: Rasstock | Getty Images Nathan Resnick   - GUEST WRITER As a startup, chances are, you are strapped for cash. This means you should always be on the lookout for the best deal. Whether it is to provide food for your office or to get to your next meeting, making the most of your money will be crucial to your success. For employees and CEOs, finding the best deal often lies in the up and coming on-demand economy. What started as a way to hail private cars on Uber, has turned into a growing industry fueled by companies like  Wolfie , which enables you to search and receive deals in real time. Related:  The 5 Stages Startups Must Go Through to Make That First $1 Million Startups should be using startups to survive. As an example, on a recent business trip to Manhattan, I used Wolfie to find a great deal on a local Italian res...
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5 Ways Fear of Failure Can Ruin Your Business

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5 Ways Fear of Failure Can Ruin Your Business Our fears play a big role in our lives. Fear of failure undermines of our ability to succeed. Image credit: AnaBGD | Getty Images R.L. Adams   - GUEST WRITER In our society, failure has become some sort of taboo. None of us like to talk about it. But we all know it's there. Its looming presence almost beckons us towards it. It entices us with the impossible promise of vast riches and unfathomable fortunes. It invites us with the allure of ample time and freedom to travel the world and live according to our own terms. But deep down inside, none of that matter. As the potential fear of failure grips us, our bright, vividly-colored dreams began to evaporate in a plume of smoke.  What is it about  failure  that's so powerful? Why is that we're deathly  afraid of failing ? As an entrepreneur, this stifling feeling has overcome me many times. I've been gripped by that sudden and urgent fear that has s...
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5 Essential Strategies for Blissful Balance of Work and Family

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5 Essential Strategies for Blissful Balance of Work and Family Image credit: Hero Images | Getty Images Adam Toren   - VIP CONTRIBUTOR Ah, the Holy Grail for every entrepreneur: a perfect work-family balance. Equilibrium between the two is often fleeting, but work and family time  can   coexist in peace. Leverage these five essential strategies to help you juggle "bringing home the bacon" with those you share it with. 1. Build family time into your schedule. You typically work 9 to 5, but where does family time fall on your agenda?  Too many entrepreneurs wait until the work is done to hang out with family, but you should run your schedule, not the other way around. Failing to schedule family time means it will be the first thing to fall off the table when life gets busy. As you piece together your calendar for the next week, consider how much time you'd like to spend with family on a regular basis. Don’t just write in the events you’ll l...
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Why You Don't Need an Email List to Start a Business

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Why You Don't Need an Email List to Start a Business An email list is important, but it's not necessary to start. Image credit: Marc Romanelli | Getty Images Nathan Resnick   - GUEST WRITER There's no denying that email marketing plays a huge role in the growth of many successful businesses. Unfortunately, some digital marketers become so caught up with the idea of building a booming email list that they think it's the only way they can achieve huge growth and lasting success. It isn't. An email list can be a great way to keep in touch with your sales leads, but there are other strategies and methods that can help your startup make it through the  first five years  when approximately half of all new businesses fail. For email marketing to be truly successful, you typically need to grow your list organically. For most businesses, that isn't going to happen overnight. However, the following strategies will help you better promote your ...
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