Viresh Harduth, Vice-President, New Customer Acquisition for Sage Africa & Middle East opines that when you want to grow your startup business, the best approach would be to keep it simple, and suggests a few strategies to adopt. The start-up scene in the Middle East, and particularly the UAE, is ripe with opportunities and booming […]
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Vic Bageria is the UAE Chapter President of Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO). EO UAE Chapter is a global, reputed hand-selected group of entrepreneurs who have scaled their businesses in the region and have established themselves as pioneers and leaders in their space and contributing to regional impact. How to add life to small businesses? As we […]
Top Factors to Consider When Starting a Small Business with Little Capital
Lack of funds is usually the biggest concern among aspiring entrepreneurs. Securing the much-needed capital can be daunting, but this should not discourage you from pursuing and eventually building your own businesses. Establishing small enterprises with little capital is feasible. There are numerous examples of companies worldwide that started out with very minimal funding […]
Ontario Promotes its Open for Business, Open for Jobs Approach to Investors in Europe
TORONTO — Vic Fedeli, Minister of Finance, has completed a successful week-long investor relations tour of the U.K., France and Germany, during which the messages of Ontario’s commitment to fiscal responsibility and being open for business and open for jobs were heard loud and clear by international investors and CEOs. Minister Fedeli met with business […]
Entrepreneurship Is All About Overcoming Obstacles
Being an entrepreneur has awarded me a number of personal and professional successes. It has been exciting, fulfilling and a lifelong dream worth pursuing. You probably sense a “but” coming, and your instincts are on point. The entrepreneur journey is not a road free of obstacles. In fact, it can be a mountainous backroad with […]
WHY INNOVATION HOLDS THE KEY TO GROWTH
Companies across the globe are coping with major disruption caused by enterprises such as Amazon in retail and Uber in transportation. Where are they innovating and seeking growth? Gabriel Hamani is CEO of BHI, a division of Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s leading financial institution. He discusses some of the key trends BHI is seeing among its […]
What is Experiential Marketing and How Can it Benefit Your Small Business?
Adopting the Right Mindset for Experiential Marketing Steve Kurniawan is content marketing and digital marketing strategy of Nine Peaks Media. He outlined some of the concepts small businesses need to pay attention to before they get started. “The main idea is customers are more likely to buy based on emotion, not logic,” he writes. He […]
The Ups And Downs Of Starting A Business With A Cofounder
Having a company cofounder, someone to share the burden of starting a new business, can be a key factor in its success. But it’s a relationship that can evolve over time and at various stages of the business journey can become fraught. In short, starting up with another founder has its pros and cons, as […]
Seven Ways To Save Time With Small Business Automation
Running a small business may not seem too challenging from a distance. After all, it’s a small business, so how much operational and management work could there be? But since I started my own agency, I’ve realized that running a small business or firm isn’t as easy as it looks. The good news is that […]
What No One Tells You About Being An Entrepreneur
It’s often said that 50% of startups fail within the first three to four years, and most don’t even make it past two. I used to have a hard time understanding why there was such a high failure rate, despite all the facts and statistics, but after pushing through those first four years, experiencing the […]
