All companies face risks, and startups are no exception. As you seek financing from third parties, remember that once financing is obtained, the resources of those outside investors now face the same risks as your personal resources.

To be an entrepreneur is to be challenged everyday. Often times, you will be pushed to your limits, but the payoff can be one of life’s greatest pleasures. To help you through the entrepreneurial journey, here are 10 quotes all entrepreneurs should live by.

You are going to fail! This is the dirty little truth about being an entrepreneur.

Efficiency, the ability to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of time and effort, is one of the most important ingredients to business success. Startup companies must be ruthless in this pursuit.

Concept stage branding & marketing is an important aspect of creating a new startup. It’s never too early to begin considering the branding and marketing …

If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, then the team is too large. – Jeff Bezos. Investors want to invest in people more than products, because people make products.

Shark Tank revealed how looking at Gross profit margin  ( how efficiently is the product being produced) against Net profit margin  (how efficiently is the company operating as a whole) can affect your chances of investment.

The basic question that most plans leave unanswered is, “How do I know if my plan is working?”

“Sweat equity is the best kind of startup capital.”— Mark Cuban
This is a huge question for startup founders. If you are a founder, you know what I am talking about: how much of my startup should I give away?

We often think of business as a special function. In reality, it operates in much the same way normal things around us do. In fact, the concepts behind Newton’s Three Laws of Motion are as applicable to business tips as they are to physics.