Rochester Entrepreneurs Resource

November 03, 2005

MARKETING 101: FUNDRAISING

This article at Entrepreneur.com, suggests a novel way to market small, inexpensive products. The profitability-to-hassle ratio of these items makes them difficult to market through normal sales channels. Retailers, for example, don't want to dedicate expensive display space to low-profit...

February 08, 2005

Business Start Up Checklist

This Business Start Up Checklist at Business Know-How is a good reminder of steps you need to go through to start your business, but misses a few things such as retaining an attorney and an accountant. Combine it with my...

12 Months to Startup

Entrepreneur.com has an interesting article giving step-by-step instructions to start a new business. 12 Months to Startup not only suggests what to do each month, but also includes links to resources to help you through each step....

January 27, 2005

What Makes a Good Opportunity?

An article at Inc.com called What Makes a Good Opportunity? has an interesting approach to looking at ideas for new buinesses that might be called the "Three M's approach" (not to be confused with 3M the company). The "Three M's"...

January 03, 2005

Creating The Right Team

While I'm on organizational issues, here's an article on How To Create The Right Team For Your Company which I found on Ecademy. What do you think?...

Ways to Structure a Company

I came across an article at SCORE titled There Are a Variety of Ways to Structure a Corporation or LLC. This is a useful overview of the options available to someone setting up a company or organization. (Seeing as how...

December 31, 2004

Are You A 'Pure Entrepreneur'?

Are you: loopy and obsessed? driven by a belief that a major shift is coming? a solo enterprise, funded by credit cards, consulting projects, and second mortgages? focused more on producing a product that people will find useful than on...

December 15, 2004

Starting a For-Profit Small Business in the U.S.

I recently came across this page on Starting a For-Profit Small Business in the U.S. which is a pretty comprehensive set of guidelines for starting up a business. A very dull looking page, but very useful....