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Entrepreneur
Do you constantly have great business ideas which fall to the wayside because you just don’t know how to turn those daydreams into reality? If you’re stuck in the brainstorming stage, that's probably because you don’t know what to do next. Around 550,000 people, according to the Kauffman startup index, become entrepreneurs each month and you could be one of them. While there’s no guaranteed formula to starting a successful business, there are steps to take in the planning phase that will not only help you determine if your business idea has what it takes but help you get the ball rolling, too.
Sound like you? Here’s what to do next.
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Forbes
As Amazon rapidly expands its reach, many brick-and-mortar businesses are worried that they can't compete. In addition to selling just about every product ever invented, the online retail giant recently bought Whole Foods and opened its own retail locations in several cities. Local business, with some justification, worry that customers will no longer bother to leave home to shop when they can get fast delivery by clicking a few buttons.
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Forbes
As a small-business owner, have you dismissed artificial intelligence as a technology whose daunting complexity is rivaled only by the price tag that comes with it? It’s easy to imagine that AI is reserved for Fortune 500 companies, mammoth financial institutions and venture-backed startups vying for unicorn status, but the reality is a little different.
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Business Insider
Navigating your 2018 taxes under new tax law may be a bit harder.
But when it comes to whittling down your tax bill, you'll need to do more than check and see what's changed under the new tax laws — you'll also have to go through your year's expenses with a fine-tooth comb to see what you can deduct.
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The Next Web
With only 2 percent of all U.S. venture capital going to female founders in 2017, saying women have it tough when pitching to investors is a huge understatement. Whether that’s because of unconscious bias, social conditioning or simply due to the fact we’re outnumbered, it’s fair to say something has to change, and fast.
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Entrepreneur
There is absolutely no doubt about the social and economic impact education can have on humanity. On a personal level, the same is undeniably true. Up until the age of 18, we develop in very structured terms. Our formal education shapes the way we think and how we view the world. After that it’s on us. Whether you work at a large company where you collide with new ideas, skills and technologies that you’re forced to use daily, or you’re a freelancer or entrepreneur and you’re the head of your own HR, marketing and IT departments, continuous education is what collectively propels us forward.
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Small Business Trends
If you peeked behind the curtains of the average self-employed entrepreneur’s office windows, what would you see? A pajama-clad couch potato eating Fruit Loops and watching cartoons while pricing flights to Fiji, or a stressed-out dynamo simultaneously juggling three conference calls, answering emails, and trying to keep two toddlers and a dog quiet? “Perceptions of the self-employed tend to go one of two ways,” says a recent survey by QuickBooks Self Employed. The reality, as the survey found, is somewhere in between. Let’s take a closer look at the truth about self-employment.
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Simply Business
Simplified expenses are a useful way for self-employed people to ease the pain of accounting and tax returns.
Bookkeeping and reporting can be complicated and arduous when you work for yourself. Thankfully though, for self-employed people with straightforward tax affairs, HMRC’s simplified expenses regime can make the process much easier and less time-consuming.
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By Candice Gottlieb-Clark
Shock. Horror. Disbelief. These are the reactions we have when asked an inappropriate or uncomfortable question. These include questions like, "How much did you spend on your last vacation?", "What brought on your sudden weight change?" or "Are you dating?" Questions like these are not just inappropriate, they are intrusive. Most often our goal is simply to bring the conversation back onto neutral ground gracefully and tactfully. In this article are some guidelines and some suggestions for doing just that.
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