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Tips to Help Overworked Entrepreneurs Achieve Better Balance

All too often entrepreneurs start businesses with dreams of more freedom and work/life balance. Then they find they’ve somehow given up their lives to grow their businesses. This is a recipe for illness, frustration and burn out. While I offer tips, tactics and ideas for helping entrepreneurs find better work / life balance all the time; I always like to hear what others have to say on the subject. So recently I solicited tips from experts. And wow! I got more than 100!! Many of them terrific and different from what I’ve shared before.

Startup America Announces Roundtables With Entrepreneurs

As part of the White House's Startup America program, senior administration officials will visit eight cities to meet with entrepreneurs  and hear from them on ideas and suggestions for removing barriers and regulations to build a better environment for entrepreneurship.

Consortium Holds Entrepreneurship Week

The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education has announced the 5th Annual National Entrepreneurship Week, to be featured February 19-26, 2011.According to Dr Cathy Ashmore, executive director, "The Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education is challenging our 100+ member organizations and their extensive networks of entrepreneurship educators nationwide to join with entrepreneurs and economic developers to sponsor events at the local, state, and national levels during this special week.”

How to Know If Your Product, Service or Idea Is Destined for Success

So, you've got a terrific idea for a new product, service or business. But how do you know if it's going to sell?

U.S. Ranks Third In Entrepreneurship

A report released by the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration, found the United States ranks third overall for entrepreneurship, first in entrepreneurial aspirations, sixth in entrepreneurial attitudes, and eighth in entrepreneurial activity.The findings are based on the Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index (GEDI), a research tool that captures the contextual features of entrepreneurship in 71 countries.

What Startups Do and Do Not Need

What does it take to start a business? There are some things that one business would consider important that another business would not. However, there are also some fundamentals with starting a business. Chris Dixon, a well-known angel investor and entrepreneur, has had his share of experience with startups and even compiled a list of things startups do and do not need.

Taking Intelligent Risks in Business

Do you consider yourself a risk-taker? Let's take it one step further and ask: do you consider yourself a risk-taker in business? The latter might result in a slightly different answer than the former.

Are You Motivated about Your Business?

Thomas Jefferson once said, "Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

Finding a Suitable Business Venture

Quite often, people assume that entrepreneurs always have a plan or direction, but that isn't always the case. It is true that entrepreneurs get a strong urge to open a business, but in many cases, they don't instantly know what it will be.

UK Entrepreneurs Get a New Resource for Tips and Tools

A new resource has been launched to help entrepreneurs in the UK start up and grow successful businesses. The resource is called the Start Up Donut, and it counts none other than Google among its sponsors. The site went live today and his been developed in response to a surge in the number of business start-ups in the UK brought on by large numbers of redundancies and changes in the business climate.