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Why Do You Want to Become an Entrepreneur or Start a Business? Do you want to learn how to become an entrepreneur without money or a degree? How can you become a successful entrepreneur? What does it take to start a business and build a successful business? How did entrepreneurs like Larry Ellison, Bill Gates, Ingvar Kamprad, Michael Dell, Aliko Dangote and Thomas Edison become successful? You are going to find out soon. Before I proceed, I want to state categorically that there is no definite strategy or success formula to becoming a successful entrepreneur and the reason is because the entrepreneurial path of entrepreneurs is different.

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Managerial Courage - It's a Key Element for Today's Manager Coaching and teaching on how to be a manager in today's world involves many concepts. One of those concepts is the development of managerial courage. It's a key element towards any new manager's developmental plan. Projecting Online Advertising for Business Plans As a consultant to tech startups, I’ve seen entrepreneurs planning online ventures confused when it comes to projecting advertising revenue. Having done ad projections with the benefit of live models from which to extract real data, I offer the following guidelines on how you can calculate revenue projections for your business plan. Baseline Criteria: Let’s assume that for Year One you will only use third-party ad-serving networks, instead of direct selling. This is as simple as adding their code snippets to your pages, to automatically feed their ads to your site. Because it’s rare to find one service that can fill all your inventory, I recommend a primary service and a backup service.

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