Startups Fail for a Few Key Reasons
Follow your passion. Do what you really love. Work isn’t work when you love it. Live your dream life – become an entrepreneur. We could go on for paragraphs with the social media ready soundbites people love to spout about entrepreneurship but, (1) you’d be bored, (2) eventually you’d smell a rat, and (3) we’d […]
How to Manage Feeling Like an Imposter in Your Own Business
Have you ever felt like a fraud? That sickly feeling of guilt — although unwarranted and false — occurs within all high-achievers. How do you know if you’re experiencing imposter syndrome? If you have high expectations for yourself, never let yourself relish in your successes, or even if you’re a woman or a […]
Why Do So Many Startups Fail?
More small businesses and startups are being started than ever before, but only 10% of them succeed. What makes 90% of new businesses fail? Most of them fail because of a few key reasons – minefields you need to be aware of in starting or running your own company. ideamix founder, Sam Jayanti, explains the […]
Why Do Entrepreneurs Start Companies?
9 Out of 10 Startups Fail
Startups are common today, but that was not always the case. In 1600, The Company of Merchants of London started the English East India Company to muscle in on the Dutch dominated spice trade. Investors committing seed funding for an exploratory search for the Spice Islands signed up for more than they bargained for: [T]he […]
How to Become an Entrepreneur in College
What effect is COVID-19 having on college kids’ emotions? For many, the global pandemic has left us feeling like we lack a purpose. After being sent home early from college, millions of students nationwide have lost access to the academic, extracurricular, and social resources that were once integral components of our lives. Furthemore, summer jobs, […]
5 Steps to Ease Your Transition out of Wall Street
Camilla Gazal and Flavia Naslausky are two women who understand how to make the transition from Wall Street to starting a small business. Camilla and Flavia first met on Wall Street where they launched their careers in the finance industry. When the markets crashed in the 2008 financial crisis, Camilla and Flavia decided that they […]