About Small Business Info: Start Me Up
 | from Darrell Zahorsky
Now wouldn't seem like a great time to start a business. Yet many great companies were started during economic hardships including Microsoft, Domino's Pizza and Toys "R" Us. A recession often means costs of goods are less, new competitors are scarce and owners are forced to be frugal. Startups during slow downs have the challenge of making certain risk taking is optimized. With careful planning and execution, you can start a business during slow times.
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What's the Right Business Startup for Me?
One of the most popular small business subjects today are business opportunities. Everyone wants in on what's hot. Riding the wave of a hot market is much easier than spending all your time and resources educating a market without a real need. Finding the hot business opportunity is the first step. Once you find a hot idea you need to evaluate whether the business makes sense not only in the market but also for you personally.
| | 9 Personality Types of Entrepreneurs
Starting and growing your own business requires many skills to be successful. Take a look at the business personality types and find out what you need to succeed. Are you Bill Gates, a Visionary, or an Improver like Body Shop founder, Anita Roddick?
| Pink Slips to Deposit Slips
Call it what you like job cuts, corporate restructuring, head count reduction, or layoffs but for hundreds of thousands of people, it's a dramatic life changing event. Being unemployed in a tight job market offers very few opportunities even for talented individuals. One growing alternative for the newly "pink slipped" is to start a business.
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