Category Small Business Strategic Planning
No “Line in the Sand”
“Have you drawn a “line in the sand” on when to close your business?” Small Business Week is April 30 – May 6. Intuit’s QuickBooks, a company best known for their accounting software, was interested in hearing takeaways from successful small business professionals. As a QuickBooks user for the last 10 years, I wanted to […]
Good Advice for Pre-Revenue Startups Raising Capital
Here are two big questions you’re asking yourself if you’re launching a company and looking to raise capital before you’ve generated revenue… and an answer from one seasoned Angel investor. Agree? Disagree? Comment below. What do angel investors expect in a business plan for a Tech startup in the early stages? How should financial projects […]
Small Business Funding: Accelerators & Incubators
The new way to launch your start-up or early-stage company has hit the entrepreneurial landscape like a hurricane. Business Accelerators and Incubators cover the landscape as it seems that every city, state, major university and country has joined the fray of early-stage venture capital companies like Y-Combinator, DreamIt, Idealabs, and MassChallenge to help you “accelerate” […]
Languages International Hires The Allasso Group as Sales Agency
April 7, 2016 Greenwich, CT. In late September 2015 Beverly Wall, CEO of Languages International, Inc., an 18 year old language translation service business based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was investigating new ways to grow her business in 2016. In research mode, she contacted and had several conversations with Dan Gallo, The Allasso Group’s Managing […]
CoupleWise Contracts The Allasso Group For Management & Capital Raise
January 27, 2016 Greenwich, CT. In mid-September 2015 Dan Gallo responded to an unusual post by CoupleWise‘s Founder & Chief Psychologist, Dr. Gary Krane, PhD. His start-up software company needed seed capital and a new direction if he was to succeed in his quest to serve the 35-40 million couples in the USA & Canada […]
5 Tips for Small Business in Any Economy
When it comes to the economy, don’t listen to the media, politicians, or friends working at big companies. Listen to other small business owners. And from what I’m hearing, many are still hurting. Here are 5 tips worth considering… 5. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit” […]
Alternative Financing For Your Small Business
…most SBEs go out of business due to a lack of capital. Therefore, having multiple financing solutions is critically important to all small businesses.
TRUE STORY – part 1
It was August 2013 and my family and I were headed back to Belize with The Word at Work (http://TWAW.org) on a short-term missions trip. This was special because it was the first time in 6 years we were able to all go together. And the trip included just one other family, The Kral’s of […]
Free eBook: How To Crowdfund Your Small Business to Success
First, a quick story: Like many entrepreneurs between 2008 and 2010, I got crushed over a very badly timed foray into the luxury real estate market. Even though I dusted myself off and got back in the race, my credit score is lagging well behind our personal recovery because we stopped using credit. “If we […]
Business Fundamentals: #2. Develop a Business Plan
Yesterday I met with a top Leadership Development consultant. During our meeting he talked about learning to deep sea dive: “Diving is a lot like running a business: You have to plan your dive, then dive your plan. If you don’t you could die.” Which is the only way, I believe, you should think about […]
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