Finding clients: If you can help people with these two things, you’ll be in demand

It’s really hit home lately how people, especially entrepreneurs, feel distressed by two things more than ever:

They are overwhelmed by the array of choices: strategies to implement, tasks to complete, technology to learn or outsource, etc.
They are facing this alone and will fully bear the consequences of their choices.

Gone is the established set of procedures [...]

Do internet businesses fail more than offline startups?

My work is about building businesses from the inside out, but once in a while my traditional business background surfaces. That happened recently when someone quoted the frightening statistic that 97% of online businesses fail within 5 years.
Hum…is that true, I wondered? I know that the US Small Business Administration quotes a new business survival [...]