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Covering entrepreneurship and business start up questions for non-residents and US citizens.

 

Aug 29 2013

The Founder’s Challenge: Can You Work By Yourself?

by John Gordon | 23:08 GMT

Very early stage startup and small business founders face a key challenge: ability to work by yourself. For people working in the corporate world, it seems like to heaven to have the ability to work without someone monitoring your performance, to be able to choose your own…

 

Dec 21 2012

How to name a new company

by John Gordon | 16:12 GMT

Naming your new company is a very personal choice, and the founders really need to think hard about what they want the name to be. A name can be changed later, if necessary, but this is an expensive and cumbersome process of filing an amendment, notifying your vendors and customers and changing all your stationery, […]

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May 06 2012

How is a startup different from a small business?

by John Gordon | 21:05 GMT

One of the great resources for entrepreneurs on the web is Y-Combinator’s library of articles for startups. Included among the articles is a great piece on getting funding for a startup, part of which discusses the difference between a “startup” and a “small business:” A company has to be more than small and newly founded […]

 

Apr 29 2010

Do you need to wait for a co-founder for your startup?

by John Gordon | 13:04 GMT

There is a lot discussion among entrepreneurs and their advisers about whether one should simply start a business alone, or find one or more co-founders who can bring additional talents and resources to the table. Jobs and Wozniak, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the list goes on and on of situations where there was a […]

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