Setting up a Company is fun! Besides getting your heart an adrenaline rush, your minds a foreplay, your pockets an imagination, there are many things to be taken into consideration.
Unless you’re a seasoned Entrepreneur, setting up a Company can be quite daunting. To get to next stages from idea to execution, erring away into the many shelves of the hypermarket in your mind, you would.. be advised to draw an almost, but realistic business plan. If you’re looking for venture, in these hard times {I’m referring to the recent monetary crisis too overplayed in the ‘civilized’ western world} it is well advised whatever funds available either via grants, or savings be frugally spent. They do not afterall grow on trees, nor are they being printed in your own backyard, unless you’re doing the printing yourself!
A good option is to partner with technology partners and associates and leverage a long-term Win-Win relationship. Trying to outdo the other or competing is not advisable unless you’re a Microsoft, a Steve Jobs or HRH Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.
Consider these before jumping the gun – from software through milestones, to colour through logo design; from liveware through banking. Like a kid in the sandpit, setting and working your own company should be fun. If it becomes tedious – re-check your concept, your mind, the ‘why’s. It should not just be about bringing you a fat cheque every month – consider client servicing, employee relations and potential branding and positioning of your evolution!
Vet through Best Company’s free logo resources. BC creates designs after carefully analyzing all the information sent by the client , developing sketches, coming up with a design that serves best your company goals.
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La Logotheque … is a Lyonnaise Vectorial Repository of more than 12k vector design … for research, ideas and downloading madness!
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Logo Design Love is a website devoted to logos
Vecteezy is an index of Free Vector Graphics available for download by some of the best artists around the world
VectorStock™ is an ever expanding Royalty-free vector stock art collection. The collection represents some of the worlds most talented vector illustrators and graphic designers.
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.
My Own Business educates entrepreneurs by providing free coursework to foster success and prevent and mitigate human suffering and economic losses arising from preventable mistakes.
The MIT 100K is a competition for MIT Entrepreneurs to compete with innovative business plans and strateges.
If you are writing a business plan for a bank, your bank manager will want to see that your ideas are well thought out, but the most important aspect to him or her will be your financials. Are your assumptions realistic? And will the cash flow of the business be enough to ensure that you can make the monthly payments for the loan that you have requested? If your business is making $1,000 a month and your payments are $1,200 a month, the bank is likely to turn you away. {Palo Alto Software}
Start-up investment with scarce venture capital support: Venture capitalists, representing informed capital, screen, monitor and advise start-up entrepreneurs. The paper reports three new results on venture capital {VC} finance and the evolution of the VC industry. First, there is an optimal VC portfolio size with a trade-off between the number of companies and the value of managerial advice. Second, advice tends to be diluted when the industry expands and VC skills remain scarce in the short-run. The delayed entry of experienced VCs eventually restores the quality of advice and leads to more focused company portfolios. Third, as a welfare result, VCs tend to provide too little advisory effort and to invest in too few companies. Testable implications are also discussed.
The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else.
Barclays Start-up Guide is packed with practical help to turn your dreams into a business plan – and your business plan into profit.
When you have a great idea, and you’re trying to get your business off the ground, often your first office ends up being at the kitchen table. In order to develop an office space that can accommodate your needs as your business grows, there are a number of things you should consider. {Microsoft Start-up Centre}
Malaysia has several development financial institutions that were set up with specific objectives to develop and promote strategic economic sectors, including the manufacturing and export sectors, small and medium enterprises, as well as the agriculture, infrastructure and maritime sectors. These development financial institutions complement the banking institutions by providing an array of financial and non-financial services to support development of the strategic sectors. These include the provision of medium to long-term loans, equity capital, guarantees for loans and a range of supplementary financial and business advisory services.
SME Info: SMEs can approach Commercial Banks and Islamic Banks for funding, depending on their needs. Conventional as well as Islamic financing products are available for a wide range of needs. These would cover items like term loans, leasing and industrial hire-purchase for asset acquisitions or business expansions; overdrafts, revolving credit facilities and factoring for working capital; letters of credit, trust receipts, banker’s acceptance and Export Credit Refinancing for trade financing; and bank guarantee as well as shipping guarantee facilities. {Malaysia Government Programmes for Entrepreneur Development}
RationalPlan Project Viewer by Stand By Soft is a free project management software viewer, the perfect solution for anyone {from project stakeholders to team workers} to view your projects in detail. Although the project managers plan and control the projects from start to end and make all the necessary changes, there are some other people, the stakeholders that need to check and overview the projects evolution into their smallest detail.
