Helping Businesses Grow & Succeed
While it is still too early for hurricane forecasters to predict the exact path of Eta, it could strengthen and head toward South Florida over the next week, they say. What we do know is that it’s not too early to dust off your company’s disaster plan. Forecasters say southern […]
The COVID-19 crisis is just one more reminder about the importance of a succession plan. A smart succession plan is just good business, protecting your legacy, company. Customers, employees, and relatives when a family business is impacted. Most large companies have them, but many small and mid-size business owners avoid […]
By Gerri Detweiler – Guest Contributor A Trade Reference is a report detailing the payment history between a business customer and its supplier or vendor. Trade references may be supplied verbally, in the form of a trade reference letter, or by reporting payment history to commercial credit reporting agencies such […]
By Dileep Rao – Guest Contributor There will never be enough new business financing to satisfy all the world’s entrepreneurial hopes. Having been to many venture-development conferences, I have found that one theme remains constant – entrepreneurs everywhere, and the venture developers who promote them, seem to constantly complain about […]
The majority of small businesses in Florida have been greatly negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. That was one of the key findings of a new survey and report on the state’s small businesses conducted by the Florida Chamber Foundation, the Florida Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Network, and the […]
Remaking an old-school B2B company into an e-commerce success story would not have been possible without a lot of hustle and the power of a knowledgeable network. In 2017, after Dan and Kim Hannon moved to Palm Beach County, they acquired Aabaco Environmental Industries, a spill containment and safety supply […]
In launching or growing a startup, there’s one tool every entrepreneur needs in their startup toolbox: A knowledgeable, honest and trusted advisory board. Startup expert Ricardo Weizs, a consultant at Florida SBDC at FIU that specializes in startup growth and access to capital, believes many startups lack industry expertise – […]
If you are like a lot of owners of businesses big and small, you learned that your team can work remotely – and maybe even as efficiently as they were before. Some owners and managers who were once opposed to the very idea of a remote workforce have even seen […]
COVID-19 shut trade shows down, closing off one of small businesses’ largest marketing and networking channels. Even so, the shows have gone on – albeit virtually. One small business owner told me this week he was supposed to be at his industry’s largest trade show but instead he is on […]
By Dileep Rao – Guest Contributor Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs (BDEs) are defined as entrepreneurs who have built ventures from startup to more than $1 billion in sales and valuation. Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurship (BDE-ship) is defined as the process used by BDEs to build these ventures. This blog explains the difference between the […]