Rohit Arora, CEO of Biz2Credit, says that in his experience, many women business owners start out borrowing for their businesses on personal credit cards, instead of establishing credit in the name of their businesses.

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Sometimes in this business you start out as one thing but realize your talents are better served doing something else.

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Once you know what you plan on offering, start getting the word out about your business participating in Small Business Saturday!

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Get caught defrauding Medicare and you may be out in a few years with good behavior, whereupon you can start up the business again.

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Gill and his brother decided to ratchet up the business, persuading their father to cut out the middlemen in Singapore and start importing directly from manufacturers.

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"My favorite saying is, "I found out finally how to make a small fortune in the cattle business... you start with a large one.

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One area they are looking at in particular is the difficulty of getting venture capital for business start-ups once you get out of the South-East.

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We are giving them the skills to figure that out, but then we are going to turn around and tell them to start the business and create those jobs in China, or India, or Mexico, or someplace else.

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