Cinventure – For the Cincinnati Entrepreneur

So you’re business is growing and you needed to hire some employees.  That’s great news, but now you need to come up with a way to identify and select the best candidate for employment.  It is also important to note that employees represent not only assets to the firm, but potential liabilities as they will [...]

Before you go rushing that freshly minted copy of your business plan into the venture capitalist’s office, there’s something you should know: that restaurant isn’t sexy.  Let’s step back and explain what we mean and then see if there’s something we can do to fix it.
The Lifestyle Business: Small Business Owners
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Let’s face it – we entrepreneurs are all pretty optimistic people.  I mean, we come up with these business ideas and we’re willing to tweak them until we can get them to work.  Fortunately for the optimist there is a reality check that can be used to maintain a comfortable level between it’s a sure thing and [...]

Sure it’s not easy getting an idea from the drawing board to the shipping dock.  And this is where successful entrepreneurs set themselves apart from those who are just dreamers.  So when you come up with a great idea but lack the resources to launch the product or service, what do you do?  Well, without [...]