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Maybe you’re a young kid who wants to start a business. Maybe you’re a college grad who wants to create a job (rather than finding one). Or maybe you’re a corporate mouse who’s fed up with the rat race. In any case, the internet has opened up a world of opportunities for the entrepreneur-at-heart. We’re about to look at 21 businesses that you can start today and efficiently run with just a laptop and an internet connection. 21 Businesses You Can Run From a Laptop… Development / Programming Web developers are programmers who specializes in, or are specifically engaged in, the development of World Wide Web applications, or distributed network applications that are run over HTTP from a web server to web browsers. #1 Web Developer According to SBA.gov, there were 29.6 million small businesses in the US and Ad-ology found that 46% of small businesses don’t have a website. If you’re a skilled developer / programmer, be sure to apply for   AwesomeWeb...

Entrepreneur Network partner Kelsey Humphreys chats with rapper and entrepreneur Fabolous about his eight keys to sustained success. love to interview artists and comedians -- a special breed of entrepreneur. It’s argued that much of their success comes down to their raw talent, and the amount of hours they put in to perfect that talent. One could also say it comes down to the right mixture of managers, agents and a small army of support staff. However, the ones who break through do a lot of  brand building  on their own, and exhibit the resilience, resourcefulness and grit that propels them from humble creator to household name. They find the perfect harmony between art and commerce, and some of them do so to the tune of millions of dollars. Fabolous, for example, is a Grammy-nominated hip-hop star from the Brooklyn projects, now worth an estimated $23 million. He landed the opportunity to rap live on local radio at the age of 17, landed a record deal and is stil...

Here are proven strategies for growing your business the old-fashion way. Q:  I run a small business and need some marketing ideas that I can use offline to get people to visit my store. A:  I review dozens of business plans each year. In the marketing section, nearly all of these plans say “We are going to market our company through social media.” This is great, but many attractive customer groups do not spent a lot of time on their computers or smart phones. In addition, the jury is still out on how effective social media is in actually producing sales in some industries. Most of the successful companies I work with use a combination of online and effective offline marketing activities. Here are some low-cost offline strategies that can significantly increase your sales:    Related:  3 Compelling Reasons to Adopt Agile Marketing 1. Free publicity Media sources are always looking for interesting stories – so why not yours? Contact your local ne...

Michael Dubin occasionally allowed himself to envision the moment when everything paid off. He’d be ushered into a grand ceremony, where some conglomerate, eager to own his massively successful company, would offer him a fortune for the pleasure. “I thought we would pass a really nice pen around in a wood-paneled boardroom with portraits of men with white hair,” he says. When the moment actually came, on July 19, 2016, there was none of that. He was in his pajamas, lying on a bed at the Skytop Lodge in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. His lawyers had been working through the night, and now the sun was up and Dubin had his cellphone pressed to his ear. In two hours, he was set to take the stage in the hotel’s ballroom, where leaders of the multinational conglomerate Unilever would gather for its biannual conference. There, they’d announce that he was now part of their team:  Dollar Shave Club  was being acquired for $1 billion. But first, the deal had to be finalized. D...