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Are entrepreneurs born, or can being a successful business owner be learned?

When you own a business, it is up to you to deal with the good and the bad, including making sure that your company finances are on the straight and narrow. Paying your employees is one of the things that you get the pleasure of doing, which means that you need to deal with payroll [...]

The path the being a successful entrepreneur is fraught with many obstacles, which is probably why so many small businesses fail before they reach their fifth year. Working for yourself is hard, so you need to ensure you give yourself every possible advantage in order to find business success. Before you start down the path [...]

If you are thinking about starting a business that will employee someone else other than yourself, you need to be aware of the true hourly cost of having employees. Most employees think about what they get paid per hour, whether it is $8 or $80 per hour. They don’t realize that the true cost to [...]

It has been said that there is nothing better than being your own boss. I could not agree more. Entrepreneurs can have freedoms that employees will never have the chance to experience. America was built on the concept of small business, and this is something that the youth of today needs to embrace. The current [...]

When you think of successful entrepreneurs, several very prominent people immediately come to mind. Bill Gates as a founder of Microsoft. Steve Jobs as a founder of Apple. Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway fame. Mary Kay Ash from Mary Kay. And of course, there is Richard Branson, the quirky, yet very success man behind the [...]

As a small business owner, you probably have employees. And if you have employees, you have the potential for those employees to engage in fraudulent activities that can negatively affect your business. Any business with employees that are in a position to engage in fraud towards the business (or its customers, for that matter) needs [...]

I love working for myself. I would have it no other way. I have worked more years for the man than I care to remember, most of the time for bosses that lacked certain skills, shall we say. In my unscientific, non-polling opinion, I firmly believe that most people do not have the necessary people [...]