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The Entrepreneurial Mind Entering the market? Business model trumps business plan.

We should really use the business model to guide our launch and early development of the venture, Cornwall writes. It is a tool that makes change and updating simple and highly effective.
Donald Marron The entrepreneur as prospector

Entrepreneurs have one fundamental goal – to find an unmet need in the market, Dr. Cornwall writes.
Small businesses: Building community through hiring

Many entrepreneurs choose to use their businesses to become building blocks to help improve their community, taking steps like hiring rehabilitated convicted felons.
Moving beyond the kitchen table

The first two things to do when your start-up business starts to grow: hire employees and get out of the kitchen
Summer school in a food truck

Food trucks give aspiring restaurant owners a low-risk way to test the waters
Freelance jobs: Half of all new jobs in recovery?

Freelance jobs are up 52 percent at Elance. The number of entrepreneurs are at a 15-year high. But the growth in freelance jobs mean less security for the workforce.
Top 5 books to turn your high-tech innovation into a successful business

Technology's riff on the American dream runs something like this: Young people hang out in a garage, create a world-beating technology, and build a wildly successful company. It doesn't usually happen that way, of course. That last part about building a successful business is especially hard work that requires specific business skills that technology entrepreneurs often lack. Fortunately, there are thousands of books on the subject that can help garage entrepreneurs make the leap to successful executive. As someone who has been working in family businesses, starting and growing my own businesses, or teaching entrepreneurs for most of the past 40 years, I've read hundreds of these books – and written six of my own. Here are my picks for the Top 5 books every entrepreneur should own:
Can you build a business from values?

Many companies try to incorporate certain values into how they conduct business, but some businesses base their entire plan on values
Be patient with your business model

There are multiple stages of starting a new business. It is important to be successful in the early stages before moving on to later steps in the process.
Music fans want more than just music

In the new music industry, some musicians are struggling. Others are figuring out how to tap into what fans really want.
Female entrepreneurs and the 'lifestyle business'

Many women start a business that will work well with their personal life.
New business plan: Put it on wheels, and call it a party

A couple of entrepreneurs adjust their business model for a weak economy by turning a boutique into a traveling shopping party.
Surprise! Women started more firms than men.

Before the recession, women were starting twice as many firms as men. Now, they may do even better.
Who make the best consultants for start-ups? Customers.

No one knows what your customers need and want better than they do. Don't be afraid to overhaul your business model in response to their feedback.
The music industry has turned upside down? Great!

As the music industry reinvents itself, entrepreneurs find success through innovation.
MBA takes 7-year-old business partner

Soon-to-be MBA Shawn Sweeney and his 7-year-old son Gunner are partners in a private glass recycling company in Nashville, Gunner Recycling.
Follow your customers, not your business plan

Too many entrepreneurs stick rigidly to a business plan instead of interacting with customers to refine their model.
World entrepreneurship: We're number 3?!

A new study shows that the US trails behind Denmark and Canada among countries whose cultures support entrepreneurship.
Finding money-making opportunities at work

Ever notice something your boss (or ex-boss) could have done better? Something that, say, an independent contractor or enterprising businessperson could step in and provide?
Teen entrepreneurs getting paid to drop out?

PayPal founder Peter Thiel wants young innovators to jump start their entrepreneurial careers. Why that might not be a good idea.
Entrepreneurial advice from Dave Ramsey

Dave Ramsey, personal financial guru and author of bestseller Total Money Makeover, offered advice to entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, he recommends avoiding debt and diversifying investments.
Amish entrepreneurs? Check out 'Success Made Simple.'

Amish values of hard work, humility, loyalty, and community make for surprisingly – or maybe not-so-surprisingly – successful entrepreneurs.
Flexibility and freedom: A case study

Entrepreneurs need to be flexible enough to consider a new business model if the old one starts to fail. Radical change might even make the original dreams come true.
A new way for entrepreneurs to plan

The "business plan" may have fallen out of favor, but entrepreneurs still need to plan for the future. Enter "business modeling".
Are America's newest entrepreneurs ready?

Students have begun to accept the new economy and will build America's next companies. Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES