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Where Your Small Business Should Focus in the New Year

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]With a new year just around the corner, now is the time that businesses of all sizes reflect on the past year to review their successes and failures and develop or finalize a plan for the coming year. As a part of this plan, each business should consider shifts in their industries,...

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5 Fantastic Ways Small Business Owners Can Relieve Stress

[content field="callout1" format="true" class="calloutwide"]As an entrepreneur you probably have had friends or former colleagues say, “You're so lucky to be doing your own thing”. Yes, the experience of owning your own business and seeing your ideas materialize is extremely rewarding. However, the reality is that being a small business owner is extremely stressful, especially...

Dell Announces Fall 2014 Founders 50 Class

Dell Announces Fall 2014 Founders 50 Class Today’s businesses are run on technology. Recognizing the substantial role it plays in this, technology leader Dell has launched a program called Founders 50. The program, which was launched in the spring of 2014, acknowledges companies that have high potential to grow and disrupt their respective industries. Once...

Survey Reveals Small Businesses Optimistic About 2015

Survey Reveals Small Businesses Optimistic About 2015 A new survey conducted by Xero, a Global leader in one accounting software, shows that small businesses are quite optimistic about 2015 based on the growth they found in 2014. According to the survey of 304 US based small businesses, 81 percent experienced revenue growth this year and nearly...

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8 Smart and Easy Crowdfunding Tips

Are you excited about the possibilities of crowdfunding? Most Smart Hustlers are—perhaps none more than Zack Danger Brown, who, as of this writing, has raised more than $66,000 on Kickstarter to make potato salad. It may have started as a joke, but #potatomadness has gone viral and Brown has hustled his way to crowdfunding...