Launching a Business: Page 7

Thought Leaders

Are You Sitting on Top of a Million-Dollar Idea?

4 lessons you can learn from a successful entrepreneur about the business ideas that may be right under your nose.

By Scott Duffy

Starting a Business

Former Apple CEO John Sculley Shares 4 Key Strategies for Growing and Marketing Your Business

John Sculley helped build brands including Pepsi and Apple into what they are today. Here's how he did it.

Travel

7 Entrepreneurs Who Built Businesses Off Their Love of Travel

These founders turned wanderlust into wherewithal and became their own bosses.

Thought Leaders

How a Top Bank Executive Left Finance to Start an Adventure Travel Company -- and What He Learned About Success in Business

Jeff Bonaldi was a department head at Citibank when he struck out on his own to combine his passions -- history, adventure and stories. Here's what he learned.

Thought Leaders

Launch Your Big Idea by Starting With Why

Building a successful business is hard work. If you're not strongly rooted in why you're doing it, it's much simpler to quit or fail.

Starting a Business

The 5 Pillars to Launching a Disruptive Start-Up outside Your Expertise

Here's what needs to be done,when you see something new and think you can take it up, as you are tempted by the prospects of it as a startup

Science & Technology

7 Companies Reinventing 'Old' Fields With New Tech

Meet the entrepreneurs behind instant relationship coaching, automatic coupon code testing, online wedding registries and more.

Thought Leaders

This Cosmetics Company CEO Turned a $1 Million Packaging Fail into Quadrupled Sales. Here's How.

Carisa Janes, founder and CEO of Hourglass Cosmetics, had to pull more than 10,000 units of foundation off Sephora's shelves in 2012. She went into fix-it mode and turned things around.

Entrepreneurs

Here's Why Startups Should Start Small

Starting small in the initial stages has its own distinct benefits

Thought Leaders

How the Rifle Paper Co. Founders Turned a Side Hustle Into a Thriving Lifestyle Brand

Anna Bond and her husband Nathan had no money, no jobs and no business experience when they decided to launch the now-beloved stationery brand. Here's how they went from broke to $22 million in revenue.