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Starting a business covers every range of emotion and experience imaginable. It can be exhilarating and rewarding, but also terrifying, challenging and incredibly lonely. The nuts and bolts of building a business are the same. There’s the sexy side of developing an idea into a solution, branding and marketing your...

Vibrant, bustling, thriving and diverse – there’s no place quite like New York. With the third largest economy in the US, more than 99.8% of the State’s businesses consisting of small businesses, it’s easy to see that New York is a popular state to start a business. It isn’t, however...

How does a business, with a definitive social drive, practically draw the tricky equilibrium and make a difference without sacrificing the bottom line? by Lisa Illingworth, CEO and co-founder of educational start-up Futureproof and Development Sector Consultant for Evolve, Silvia De Jager.

Below are some tips on how to start a car dealership.

LFP Training offers ESD support services such as the implementation of sustainable supplier development programmes, profiling and analysis of your supplier database, enabling procurement opportunities for EME’s through collaboration and partnerships and promoting the upskilling of EMEs and facilities the quality of services provided.

Like a good game of chess, starting a business will challenge you to think about your long-term strategy and also make sure you’re moving the pieces one step at a time in the right direction.

As small businesses in South Africa are recognised as a driving force for economic growth and creation of jobs, enterprise development programmes offered by government and corporates offer black entrepreneurs the opportunity to find support and training to further develop their small businesses.

You have the need to make money. That’s where a business model design comes in.

There is no ‘one size fits all’ secret to start-up success. But there is a recipe that can be followed. It starts with being willing to go the extra mile: To know more about your business, customers and their needs than anyone else.

Do you up your business acumen through course work, or go out there and get experience? Either way, it’s how you conduct yourself in the work place that really counts.

Remember that the bigger the bait, the bigger the fish you’ll catch.

Tips to help you decide how much you should charge your clients so you earn a profit but aren't price gouging them.

Whether you're looking for raw materials for manufacturing or finished products to resell, this guide will help you find and forge great relationships with suppliers.

Finding the right business opportunity depends on two important questions to ask yourself: Is there a gap in the market? And am I the right person to fill the gap?

A business model is a description of how a business makes money. Here's what your business model needs to deliver on in order to ensure the venture is profitable.

So you’ve identified a gap in the market and created a product or service to fill that gap. You’ve established a business to produce the product or deliver the service and you’ve worked out an innovative way to finance your new venture. The final and most important link in the...