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Those who are accustomed to read the articles of this blog have read one of the most famous quotes by Henry Ford, one of the great entrepreneurs in history. Today we will focus on five of the many ideas that he said during his successful business life and that is good advice for entrepreneurs.

Anyone wishing to undertake should be aware of this reality. A company can not exist without its customers. Every decision you make, every reflection on the business strategy has to focus on the customer first. Because there is a larger truth that business: you pay your client list.

This advice is very important. Many times in life you have to negotiate business. Examples abound, from the rental of premises to the conditions of employees going on with customer contracts and purchases with suppliers.

Good negotiation requires understanding the point of view and needs of another person. If we close ourselves and our self-interest alone, we can get some gains but long term we are lost.
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Good ideas for starting a business can come from either a exahaustivo and prolonged study, such an absurd idea born from nothing, while we carry out our daily tasks as bathing, cleaning the house or driving. ideas for starting a business are everywhere, we simply must be alert to the latent opportunities in the market. to help your creative process, we bring you these 4 essential tips to consider:

1.  Learn everything you can.

It is important to watch the events that occur every day in Spain and other countries.  listen to the news daily, read blogs and news magazines, can help generate ideas that can become transmuted into incredible business opportunities.  street vendors and related forecasting a rainy day with the concert to be held that day and decide to sell umbrellas in the row of that concert, if you are aware of daily events can find ideas very profitable in creating  a company.  a corporate example: several countries that have legalized gay marriage, this new law have become a great business opportunity, selling a trip to one of those countries included couples gay marriage.  attention around you will achieve we will find plenty of ideas for starting a business

2.  Get in touch with your personal talent.  discover your abilities.

Think you’re passionate about several things to do.  Make a list of all the things you enjoy doing to find a job you’d be willing to do even if you paid for it.
Analyze your past work, all the knowledge and skills you’ve acquired them, and especially the skills they consider performing very well.  get thorough analysis of this diversity of ideas for starting a business, then you should also analyze to determine profitability and likelihood of success.
Think about whether your career may have made you learn what it takes to build your own business and do it better than it already does competition in the market.  to create a company, you need to have extensive knowledge of industry and market in which to operate.

3.  Innovate: invent a new product / service or modify an existing one.
How many times has happened that, when a new invention on the market and see its simplicity, I ask questions, did not I happened to me before?  although sometimes we think everything is open, there are millions of latent business opportunities in the market waiting to be discovered, millions of market needs for which has not yet invented any product or service that can meet them.  is also essential to be aware, no fear to do different things.  the greatest inventors of humanity have always been criticized and this prevented them from carrying out their inventions.

4.  Investigate other markets in your country or outside it.

It is very important, as well as inform the current national and global businesses find out they are working in other parts of Spain and the world.  This gives us the opportunity to be the first to implement this idea of business in our region.  many ideas for starting a business from products or services that have been known travel or through the media, like television and the internet.
With the current economic crisis Spain is currently experiencing, many entrepreneurs are starting businesses in other countries in Europe and the world.  However, before venturing out, you need to inform and, if possible, hire a company that offers consulting service in the incorporation of companies in foreign countries.
Society, is part of europea.com openaeuropeancompany.com, created in response to the needs of entrepreneurs interested in starting a business in different countries of Europe.

A business plan is a management tool.  Need a business plan?  Yes!

1. You need to decide whether to start a business.
This plan will help you improve your chances of success and avoid making serious mistakes.  You can be the only one who read this plan, even if you’re one of those people with business experience.  It is necessary for you the following questions and incorporate the answers in your business plan:

• What do I need to succeed in this business?
• Do I have the skills and background necessary?
• How I can afford to take the risk?  How will my company’s failure?
• What is the potential for business growth?  You can meet my financial expectations and requirements?
• Is there a big enough market for my products / services?
• Will I enjoy the ownership and management of the business?
A business plan is an important ingredient for success when starting your business.

2. If you are an Internet business entrepreneur, a housewife with a business of arts and crafts, or a writer trying to break into publishing, a business plan acts as a guide for success.  The development of your business plan helps you determine your goals and focus on strategies and action plans to achieve these objectives. Read the rest of this entry »

If your interest is to get your business idea to starting a business, you should definitely make your business plan.  This considering that currently the rapid pace of changes that have been presented in the business world, you must have a tool to guide and clarity of all aspects necessary to start a good time with your business.

If you develop the five points that I propose in this article, you will have to complete a basic framework with which you can take the first steps toward building your business plan.

In this sense, we must understand and understand what a business plan.  This is a working document that includes on the one hand, market research, industry and competition, and on the other, the guide to venture into the business world with your product or service, and set of goals  attained by your team in a scenario of time defined by you in advance.
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The desire to be an entrepreneur, own your own time and your own business is an idea that just might not have occurred to you, but to many people around the world.

And by nature we are all entrepreneurs, some in more measured than others, but always have the desire to be the intention of completely changing our lives and give a hundred and eighty degree turn that impels us to be masters of our  same time, our own destiny and lead us why not to “fire your boss….”

Surely you will have plenty of ideas occurred throughout his life… However, you asked yourself any of these questions: how many of those ideas can become business ideas…?  What I lacked that my idea could be a business idea…?  How I can know if I’m facing a real business opportunity…? Read the rest of this entry »

It is a sure fact that in China there are over 1.3 billion potential customers but anyone who has had the experience of starting a business will agree that there are billions of potential problems.

It is wise to follow advice, especially when you’re a brave entrepreneur in foreign lands:

1.  Accounts with more than one option to register your business:

The presence of your business in China can be in the form of a foreign company to one hundred percent, better known as a WFOE (Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise), a contractual joint venture, a joint venture capital, a representative office or representative  local by a third party (local and corporate secretary services representation). Read the rest of this entry »

Many young people in the Basque Country are accruing personal loan Through the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, amounting to 801,122 euros.  The purpose of these personal loans destined for this sector that they intended to obtain funding for new business plans and to carry out without any hindrance.

This agreement is for the unsecured credit lines that for a short time in force by the Ministry and with the cooperation of the Spanish Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs Association , for the purpose of encouraging new business innovations by  Basque people themselves.

All companies that already have been subsidized by the credit line correspond to different groups and sectors as energy, automotive, food, transportation or construction.
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This is the story of two business plans with very different headlines. Both contain a unique business opportunity and exciting with high yield potential. Arrival in the morning mail, each plane lands on the desktop itself bound by the investor or potential business partners. Both plans are to win hundreds of other documents, spreadsheets, phone calls and goods that compete for the attention of investors. And compete in time, because everyone looked for a few seconds, it owns or in the past rarely returned to the investor. The first plan is closely linked. It has a thick paper cover. The cover is similar to the first page of a trial. The name of the company at the center of the page and to the owners in the lower left corner of the first pieces of information about the offer of the investment company. Who are not familiar with the company name to learn or owner, the investor must now open the map of something significant about business risk. Read the rest of this entry »

Starting a business is not easy as we think, many obstacles that we face, including overcoming obstacles within ourselves like fear to start a business, less confident, afraid of seeing a failure and so forth.
Many people are very capable and intelligent who wants to start a business but failed to take the first step for different reasons.

The main concern related to the public to conduct, among which are:

* Fear of losing your money
* Do not know if the business function
* Uncertainty about the future of business
* Fear of failure
* Fear of true investment
* Insecurity does not know the leading business
* Fear of making mistakes in their choice of business

If you experience any of this, I have good news for you, this is perfect and completely natural. Every entrepreneur has started a business that has experienced at some point in the process of some level of fear to a greater or smaller. Of course, if we have a business plan, we must consider both the likelihood of success and failure, if not will put the adventure in the dark, which would be a big mistake. Read the rest of this entry »

Entrepreneur friend, what if you organize your brainstorming session to generate business ideas you need to start production project. I suggest for this exercise you perform the following steps which guarantee its success.

Take careful note of each one of them:

1. Make problem solving a creative challenge. This is very, very, very important. If the challenge is not a challenge, you run the risk of producing a lot of ideas that do not help solve the problem.

A creative challenge can start with questions like: How could we fix this or fix that? Or how we could fix this or fix that?

Upon seeing the challenge as a challenge, let this be concise, to the point and above all to exclude any information that is not related to the problem. For example: In what ways might make the product X or Y? O How you can motivate people to buy product X or Y?

2. Set a time limit. In this regard it is recommended that five (25) minutes. However experience is gained with the team and technology necessary to define real time. Sometimes the big teams may need more time for all members to give ideas.

It is also suggested to put a limit on ideas. For example at least ask for fifty (50) ideas, but keep in mind that one hundred (100) is much better.

3. Immediately begin the brainstorming, the members are proposed and the facilitator notes, usually on a whiteboard or flip chart so everyone can see. Very important to understand at this point that no one is allowed to criticize or contradict the ideas of members. No matter how silly, crazy, or impossible they may seem, all must be written on the board. It should provoke laughter and humor, not criticism.

4. Once time is up, select the five (5) ideas you like best. Make sure all the meeting participants agree with the choice and unanimously approved.

5. List five (5) criteria for judging which ideas best solve the problem or challenge. The criteria should begin with the word “should”, for example, “should be legal”, “should be completed by November 30,” “should become profitable”, etc.

6. Give each idea a score of 0 to 5 points, for example, depending on how well it meets the above criteria. Once all ideas have been evaluated each criterion, add up the total score.

7. The idea with the highest score will best solve your problem. However, it is desirable to keep track of the best ideas and score if, after all, the selected idea is not feasible or can not be done for any reason.

No doubt these steps you can make an effective exercise of brainstorming, I encourage you after reading this article, leave a comment, and make the proposed activity to consciousness, and I guarantee that once made the seven (7) steps above will many business ideas that can be successful in the future. It depends on your motivation, readiness, and entrepreneurship.