While entrepreneurs often face common challenges – including landing new customers, creating marketing strategies, and understanding accounting – their greatest challenge is usually money, i.e. “access to capital”. This is a meaty topic, but one that is on many business owners’ minds today. As our economy shifts and evolves, this is a good time to […]
Because I’m not a boy and don’t like to think of myself as ol’, I’m not one the most likely candidate to set forth the value of a network of old boys. However, I am here to say that the “good ol’ boy network” is alive and well in the Grand Valley (although it is […]
Most business startups are created to take advantage of some kind of benefit or need the founders have identified in the market. They see a problem, create a way to offer a solution and — presto — a business is born. Customers are so happy to have their problems solved they pay a healthy price […]
Ideas come from many sources: nature, personal interactions, problems — even your morning shower. Some ideas remain in the imagination, but at times they’re the spark that ignites a new business. Many entrepreneurs have great ideas for how to solve problems and improve the world. The challenge is how to take these ideas from a […]