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It might seem that the economics of making hardware are at odds with the cycle of easy money and fast startups, but there are still people who think that hardware is a good business because it is so difficult.

Since we’ve already entered a new year, I hope that you’ve been making your goals in preparing for 2017. Here 12 small business trend predictions that deserve your undivided attention.

Airbnb's deck was incredibly successful at summarizing the company vision and the huge market opportunity they had before them. We’ve added all the original slides in this article along with a redesigned version using our Slidebean pitch deck templates, and we’ll be tearing down each one of the slides.

When founders share their own emotional investments in their products, the result can be contagious excitement among funders. That is your goal.

The main difference between businesses born today versus those of yesteryear, is that it's very difficult to make a scalable business of shoe cleaning or running the local grocery store. Scalability in business is much more prevalent now.

I am not “people like me”, I am me. And I want the smart computers behind my favorite services to know me enough to deliver the content I want.

Building a company from scratch, without any outside help might sound intimidating. And, at times, it is. But when you overcome those hurdles and create a solid, steady business, the reward is often sweeter than you had imagined.

Captable.io is a free tool that supports easy cap table creation, management and insights for Founders.

This is a question that I’ve been struggling with for years. With time, I've learned that the best thing you can do is set accurate expectations, and have a clear action plan in place as to what you want to accomplish at the event.