Creating Your New Small Business Idea: Business Cheat Sheets

New Business IdeasCreating your new business ideas cheat sheet PDF can be downloaded here.

The most fun part of being an entrepreneur is coming up with your business idea. This is a phase that involves creativity and requires almost no execution. Many entrepreneurs are pretty good at the idea phase and have dozens of viable business ideas, so the key here is how you approach your process of narrowing down from all the different possibilities to one narrowly focused business idea that you can believe in and be passionate about.… read more “Creating Your New Small Business Idea: Business Cheat Sheets”

How To Manage Interns: Business Cheat Sheets

Before you’ve actually had interns working for you, managing them seems like it would be a piece of cake. Those of us who have had experience managing interns realize that getting productive work out of them without putting too much time into monitoring them while also helping them learn something is actually somewhat challenging.

The purpose of an intern is to give another person an opportunity to learn more about a field through practical experience.… read more “How To Manage Interns: Business Cheat Sheets”

EDD Claim – Hall of Shame

A copy editor quit of her own volition and tried to claim unemployment. Supposedly we “were training a summer intern to replace her”. Retarded idea… You can’t replace a full time employee with a summer intern. We even told her she could move up if she got her work on track. Ugh.