If you have ever wondered what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur this article will give you a fairly good idea. Based on a recent survey of 549 company founders across a variety of industries conducted by the Kauffman foundation for entrepreneurship, this article presents 12 facts that have surprised everyone who has read it. Let us know what you think

1. The average and median age of company founders when they started their current companies was 40.

2. 95.1 percent of respondents themselves had earned bachelor’s degrees, and 47 percent had more advanced degrees.

3. Less than 1 percent came from extremely rich or extremely poor backgrounds

4. 15.2% of founders had a sibling that previously started a business.

5. 69.9 percent of respondents indicated they were married when they launched their first business. An additional 5.2 percent were divorced, separated, or widowed.

6. 59.7 percent of respondents indicated they had at least one child when they launched their first business, and 43.5 percent had two or more children.

7. The majority of the entrepreneurs in the sample were serial entrepreneurs. The average number of businesses launched by respondents was approximately 2.3.

8. 74.8 percent indicated desire to build wealth as an important motivation in becoming an entrepreneur.

9. Only 4.5 percent said the inability to find traditional employment was an important factor in starting a business.

10. Entrepreneurs are usually better educated than their parents.

11. Entrepreneurship doesn’t always run in the family. More than half (51.9 percent) of respondents were the first in their families to launch a business.

12. The majority of respondents (75.4 percent) had worked as employees at other companies for more than six years before launching their own companies.

Which of the above surprises you the most and alters your mental model of what entrepreneurs are like?

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Chris Garrett, author of Blogging for Business and the famous ProBlogger book, wrote this interesting article emphasizing the reasons why small businesses can benefit from implementing their marketing efforts through a well managed blog.

1. Attract an audience
2. Inform, interact and learn from your audience
3. Retain your audience
4. Energize your audience
5. Recruit help, contacts, employees
6. Respond to stories and customers
7. Links for direct traffic
8. Links for SEO
9. Building trust and familiarity
10. Branding
11. Grow a community
12. Offer better service
13. Initiate more sales

You can read the full article on 13 Reasons your Business needs a Blog.

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Claudia Walliman Gomez

Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd

Who doesn’t like Steve Jobs presentations? Well, I’ve never come across to anybody who doesn’t think they’re not engaging, fun and memorable!!

Author and communications coach Carmine Gallo from ‘Gallo Communications’ spent the past three years watching hundreds of hours of Steve Jobs presentations in order to produce his latest book ‘The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in front of Any Audience’.

Watch Carmine Gallo’s interview and some of his presentation tips contained in his new book.

So would you be getting this book? Leave us your comments below.

Claudia Walliman Gomez

Marketing for Small Businesses Ltd