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The Right Way to Approach a Start-up

No start-up works out exactly as imagined. So it's important to go into it understanding that you're there to learn.  Read more

The Key to Noodles & Company's Explosive Growth

The privately held chain now has more than 300 locations. But it didn't get there through the traditional franchise route.  Read more

Franchise Your Business: 4 Tips

This neighborhood butcher shop will grow by 30 stores in 2012 for total sales of $70 million. Here's how they did it.  Read more

How To Pick A Franchise 

Key pointers from Omar Soliman, co-founder of College Hunks Hauling Junk, and Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council.  Watch video

Facebook IPO Got You Eyeing Entrepreneurship?

Some guidelines to help you decide if this is the time to jumpstart your new venture.  Read more

Innovation in House Painting? That's Right

Brian Scudamore is creating 1-888-WOW-1DAY!, a national franchise that promises to paint your whole house in a day.  Read more

Turns Shipping Containers into Med Clinics: G3Box

Through their young company, Gabrielle Palermo and her three co-founders are donating clinics to those in need.  Read more

Sweating His Way to a Successful Franchise

Chuck Runyon found a way to grow his gyms fast, without having a giant pool of money at his disposal. Here's how he created a franchising success.  Read more

How I Turned a Mess Into a Moneymaker

European Wax Center's David Coba (with his siblings) turned a disastrous sideline of his father’s salon business into a national franchise.  Read more

How to Grow Like Rita’s Italian Ice

The CEO of Rita’s Italian Ice says franchising your business starts with finding the right partners.  Read more

4 Questions Every Franchiser Should Ask

Is your small business ready to expand? Here are four questions every franchiser should ask before taking the leap.  Read more

6 Steps to Franchising Your Business

Franchising your small business may be a good way to grow fast. Figuring out whether or not franchising will work for you is a matter of knowing your busines...  Read more

How Would You Sell Bacon and Beer Cupcakes?

Four entrepreneurs suggest marketing strategies for Butch Bakery.  Read more

A Fresh Take on a Franchise Start-up

A young entrepreneur is bringing fresh food to the massesâ€"and putting a Gen-Y spin on an old-school concept.  Read more

Inc. 5000 Applicant of the Week: Sky Zone

How a father and son team built a successful nationwide franchise of trampoline-based recreation centers  Read more

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