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Building a Business

10 Questions You Must Ask Before Buying a Business

Doing your due diligence before buying a company will earn you bargaining powerand help you avoid unforeseen problems. Here's what you need to know.

By Jane Porter

Business Operations & Logistics

Stay on Top of Your Site’s SEO Ranking for Less Than $30

By Entrepreneur Store

Thought Leaders

Maximizing the Value of Experience Data

By Andrew Reid

Building a Business

How I Built a Company the Lean Way — by Using the Scientific Method

By Joe Kinsella

Marketing

3 Signs You Are Practicing Ego Marketing and How to Stop It

Is it about you or them?

By Tucker Ferwerda

Marketing

You’ve Listened to Your Gut, Now Answer These 4 Practical Questions About the Product You Think Is so Great

Trust but verify your instinct.

By Ric Kelly

Building a Business

4 Fundamentals to Successfully Jump-Start Your Startup

Don't rush into business before you've done everything to give your startup the best possible chance of success.

By Rahul Varshneya

Building a Business

When Is the Best Time for My Company to Enter a New Market?

Expansion into new markets can help businesses find new revenue streams and increase brand awareness or stave off competition.

By Jeremy Diamond

Thought Leaders

After 90 Meetings in 90 Days, These Founders Finally Found Their Customer

After creating a potentially groundbreaking solution, two founders weren't sure whom to sell it to.

By Stephanie Schomer

Building a Business

The Top 4 Reasons Startups Fail, According to 14 International Accelerators

The only mystery about startup failure is why founders keep making the same mistakes.

By Michael Houlihan & Bonnie Harvey

Building a Business

4 Tips for Finding Your Profitable Blogging Niche

There's something you like and know lots about that other people will pay for. Here's how you find it.

By Syed Balkhi

Building a Business

The Right Way to Grow Your Business Internationally

A promising new customer base is an enticing draw, but today's entrepreneurs must consider underlying factors that didn't exist a generation ago.

By Anand Srinivasan

Building a Business

Gary Vee’s Garage-Sale Challenge Teaches More Lessons Than Some College Courses

It's so simple, someone with no experience can do it.

By Richard Trevino II

Building a Business

Here’s How Celebrity Chef Sunny Anderson Brought Her Super Bowl-Ready Snack Stadium to Market

It's all in the research.

By Linda Lacina

Marketing

The Easiest Way to Do Real-Time Market Research and Give Customers What They Want

How you can get the most money from your customers by giving them exactly what they want to buy

By Perry Marshall

Business Funding

Watch This College Student School Investors With a Well-Researched Pitch

On this week's episode of 'Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch,' one contestant underscores the importance of doing your homework as an entrepreneur.

By Lydia Belanger

Building a Business

5 Ways to Do Original Research Faster and More Cheaply

Recycling existing ideas (with subtle new twists) is easy, but what customers really want is new data they've never seen before.

Building a Business

4 CEOs Share Their Secrets on How to Dominate Your Market

How can you emerge from today's ever-constant competition?

By Kc Agu

Thought Leaders

10 Must-Read Books About the Market, Investing and Building Wealth

If you want to get started with investing, you need to start reading these books.

By Jonathan Long

Business Ideas

Don’t Be Afraid to Embrace Boring Ideas

Kikkerland's annual design competition results in an unexpected bestseller.

By Stephanie Schomer

Building a Business

3 Steps to Spotting Opportunity in Markets With Dominant Players

No matter how big the business, new opportunities exist and always will. The trick is how to see them and exploit them before anyone else.

By Jen O'Neal

Business Ideas

The 3-Step Approach for Testing Out Your Business Idea

Here's how to learn the most from your potential customers and get honest feedback.

By Vanessa Van Edwards

Marketing

3 Reasons to Start Copying Your Competitors Today

You don't have to steal strategies or plagiarize work to learn from your competitors-find out how.

By Craig Simpson

Marketing

5-Step Guide to Crowdsourcing Like a Pro

Make sure your audience loves your product before you even make it.

By Jim Joseph

Building a Business

How Entrepreneurs Can Conduct Primary Market Research

The entrepreneurship community has lagged behind in incorporating primary market research into startup formation, which is a significant missed opportunity.

By Bill Aulet

Business Ideas

How to Avoid Getting Fooled By Trends

These three common misinterpretations can lead to false hopes and product failures in the healthy and wellness industry and beyond.

By Roger Cusa

Business Ideas

How I Came Up With a Million-Dollar Ecommerce Idea in 20 Minutes

If people are lining up for a product, figure out how to make the line shorter and they'll buy from you.

By Brian J. Roberts

Marketing

How to Get a New Product to Market Without Hiring Market Researchers

Thoroughly exploring the market you think exists for your product is crucial, even if you can't afford it.

By Lesya Liu

Building a Business

To Increase Your Chance of Success, Get Into an Industry You Know

The more experience you have in your industry, the more you know about the products, services, competitors, suppliers, channels of distribution, customers, and opportunities.

By Michael Glauser

Business Ideas

How to Validate Your Business Ideas Without Spending a Dime

Here are two extremely cheap (read: free) ways to test ideas.

By Natasha Che