by Suhas | Jul 26, 2016 | Article, Blog, Finance and Accounting, Finding Loans, Oetken
To start or grow any business, you’ll need funding and most businesses are funded through three sources: personal savings, loans from friends & family and commercial loans from banks. If you’ve already tapped through the personal savings and the friends and...
by Suhas | Mar 9, 2015 | Article, Blog, Immigrant Entrepreneurship
By Maria Contreras-Sweet If the U.S. jobs data released on the first Friday of every month is starting to sound like a broken record, it’s because records continue to be broken. The American economy added 267,000 private-sector jobs in January. That’s 59 straight...
by Suhas | Feb 8, 2015 | Article, Blog, Developing Your Business, Oetken, Starting Your Business, Thinking about Business
“The customer is always right.” “We have to take care of the customer no matter what.” “The customer focused business is a successful business.” We’ve all heard or probably said those things. Have you ever had a customer that you were always happy to see and were...
by Suhas | Jan 20, 2015 | Article, Blog, Developing Your Business, Oetken, Starting Your Business, Thinking about Business
Scientists studying habits in people have noticed some interesting things. If a person repeats a behavior over the course of 3-4 weeks the behavior becomes ingrained as a habit. While we form habits somewhat unconsciously in most instances, there is usually a loop of...
by Suhas | Dec 15, 2014 | Article, Blog, Developing Your Business, Oetken, Starting Your Business
Entrepreneurs are optimists. Otherwise, why take the risk to go into business? The downside: when the entrepreneur is planning her business, the optimism translates into the classic “hockey stick” explosive growth that few businesses can hope to achieve. Growing a...
by Suhas | Dec 7, 2014 | Article, Blog, Immigrant Entrepreneurship
By Yatin Mundkur Open borders brought Andrew Carnegie and Andy Grove to the U.S. They also brought Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger, a slew of German theoretical physicists to work on the Manhattan Project, and countless investors and entrepreneurs, including...
