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Getting started with Startups

What Is a Startup? Basic Definition and Characteristics

Tutorial • Beginner

How to Calculate the Value of Your Early-Stage Startup

Tutorial • Beginner

How to Come Up With Startup Ideas Worth Pursuing

Tutorial • Beginner

How to Write a Business Plan: What You Need to Know

Tutorial • Beginner

What Is a Startup? Basic Definition and Characteristics

Andrew Blackman • 11 Jun 2023

How to Calculate the Value of Your Early-Stage Startup

Eddie Earnest • 5 May 2021

How to Come Up With Startup Ideas Worth Pursuing

Eddie Earnest • 16 Apr 2021

How to Write a Business Plan: What You Need to Know

Andrew Blackman • 3 Aug 2022

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   Business Plans

   How to Create an Actionable Project Plan Using a Google Spreadsheet

   Tutorial • Beginner

   In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create your own project plan using a Google spreadsheet that you can use for your own projects or share with your team....

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   Proposal

   The Freelancer's Guide to Writing Proposals

   Tutorial • Beginner

   Writing proposals is something of an art form: you need to lay out the concept for a project, with all the amazing benefits that will make a client want to...

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   Freelancing

   How to Keep Your Creative Agency Growing in the Long Run

   Tutorial • Beginner

   Building a creative agency is not a short-term effort. You may be able to get up and running fairly quickly, especially if you’ve got some great connections...

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   Freelancing

   How to Decide Your Own Role in Your Creative Agency

   Tutorial • Beginner

   When you open an agency, you’re the head honcho. Everybody else has to do what you say, while you kick back and put up your feet. Or, at least, that’s what...

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   Freelancing

   How to Decide Who to Send Your Agency's Work To

   Tutorial • Beginner

   Especially when you’re first starting out, the odds are good that you’re going to be relying on other freelancers to handle the work that you can’t manage on...

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   Freelancing

   How to Find Enough Work to Keep an Entire Agency Busy

   Tutorial • Beginner

   When you’ve got a whole team working at your agency, you have to make sure that you have enough projects to keep them all busy. If you don’t, idle employees...

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   Business Plans

   25+ Resources for Starting a Freelance Photography Business

   Tutorial • Beginner

   “Photographer” is one of those professional titles that many people want. And why not? Taking pictures is fun and exciting. However, reality isn't so...

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   Freelancing

   How to Structure a Creative Agency

   Tutorial • Beginner

   One of the key decisions in establishing a creative agency is how to structure it. When you’re working on your own, structure doesn’t matter very much....

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   Freelancing

   How to Evolve from Freelancer to Agency

   Tutorial • Beginner

   Most freelancers are ambitious. We have to be if we want to build up a solid client roster and bring home enough income to justify not getting a day job. But...

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    Business Plans

    Skyrocket Your Freelance Business by Going Niche

    Tutorial • Beginner

    As freelancers, we often feel like we have super powers and are able to take on any project, any customer, and any challenge that comes our way. This...

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    Entrepreneurship

    The Business of Free

    Tutorial • Beginner

    We all like free stuff. Whether it's free food at an event or free resources to help your business out, everyone loves their freebies. Free stuff has always...

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    Business Plans

    Kickstart Guide to Breaking Into Freelance Illustration

    Tutorial • Beginner

    I'm going to introduce you to five talented Freelance Illustrators. They've got great advice to help you with getting started in a career in Freelance...