The Association for Entrepreneurship USA
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Recent Articles
AFEUSA Advocates for Resources for Small Businesses
Two thirds of jobs in the United States exist because of entrepreneurs that started small businesses. Millions of Americans across the nation are dependent on small businesses for jobs, and small businesses are dependent on access to funding. Availability of funding...
What Legal Structure Makes the Most Sense for Your Business?
One of the most important choices that you will make when starting a business is the type of legal structure you select for your company. Should your business be a proprietorship, partnership, limited partnership, C corporation, S corporation, or LLC? This is an...
How to Write a Business Plan
Why should you write a business plan? The business plan is the blueprint and key ingredient for a fully functioning and successful business. As the business develops, the plan will need to be adjusted to adapt to the strategic expansion of your business. Reviewing the...
Regulations Cost Businesses and Consumers Trillions
Over the past several years federal legislators have added a large number of regulations that apply to small businesses. There are more regulations placed on small businesses today than ever before. The increase of regulations placed on businesses can hurt the...
Payments Are Moving Into the Environment Around Us. Is Your Business Following?
It’s been a decade since the iPhone launch opened the floodgates for smartphones. By 2012, smartphones accounted for over 50 percent of all US mobile phones and that rate climbed to over 80 percent last year. Businesses have spent much of that decade...
Elon Musk Names His First Tunneling Machine After a Classic
Elon Musk Image credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images Reader Resource Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » It’s safe to say at this point that Elon Musk has a fondness for offbeat names. In the case of the...
7 Signs That You’re an Emotionally Intelligent Person
Emotional intelligence is an underrated quality for entrepreneurs, and a crucial one for employees. Simply put, it’s your ability to recognize and control your emotions, and to recognize and understand the emotions of others. But, why is this quality...
AFEUSA Supports Sales Tax Enforcement For Online Retailers
Is it fair that only some business have to charge sales tax? Businesses across the country are forced to try to compete with online retailers on a daily basis. Brick-and-mortar stores are forced to charge state sales tax while big online retailers who do not own...
AFEUSA Supports Waste Reduction Efforts That Create Jobs and Increase Profits
In the 1960’s, the average person produced under 2 pounds of waste per day. Today, that number has skyrocketed and the average American produces close to 5 pounds of waste per day. Currently, Americans only recycle or compost about 30% of the waste materials that they...
Minimum Wage Increase Activates AFEUSA to Advocate for Arizona Members
Increasing minimum wage in Arizona sounds like an easy decision. Increasing take-home pay for people across the state sounds as if it would improve quality of life for millions of people. However, that’s only half of the picture. With 6.6% of Arizonans employed in the...
AFEUSA Advocates for Balancing Small Business Needs with Minimum Wage Increases in Colorado
Colorado’s minimum wage for tipped employees would increase by 70% by 2020. Restaurants already operate on slim profit margins and any increase in payroll expenses could mean that small business have to be extremely conservative with what little resources they have to...
California Entrepreneurs Impacted by Minimum Wage Increase
Increasing minimum wage has been a hot topic as of late. Shouldn’t employees be able to make a livable wage? It seems like the answer would be simple, but there’s a little more to think about than just whether or not people should make more money. What does increasing...