University of La Verne SBDC Small Biz Blog

Riverside Game Lab www.riversidegamelab.com Alexander Teran is the Co-Owner of Riverside Game Lab, is an arcade, bar, restaurant, and virtual reality entertainment location that offers 100 arcade games and 6 virtual reality stations. Alexander had entrepreneurial aspirations at an early age and has always wanted his own business. The idea came when spending time with friends playing video games, “one of my friends was like ‘you know we could turn this into a business.’ I said ‘that’s crazy, I wonder if anyone else has.’ I looked it up and lo and behold people have been doing it with Dave and Busters setting the standard in the 80’s,” said Alexander. “We’re an experience where video games and arcade nostalgia meets food and alcohol,” Alexander explained the concept of business.  Top Left: August and Alex; Top Right: Arcade Machine; Bottom Right: Riverside Game Lab Interior; Bottom Right: Virtual Reality Station As most first time business owners Alexander quickly discovered three ch...

By Joshua Botello  Starting an e-commerce business seems like a simple proposition because it’s so easy to start selling in a simple online store. However, many new prospective business owners are unaware of the principles of business. In this video, I'll cover what you need to know to start an e-commerce business. We continue our business start-up series with one of the most common businesses clients approach us for help with. Starting an online business that sells products seems pretty straightforward but quickly gets complicated when clients need to make it legitimate with licensing, taxes, and accounting. So let's take a look at 5 areas you need to know about before starting an e-commerce site. Business Concept The first area we need to look into before you start is the concept of the business, specifically, what you are planning to sell. Is it going to be a product you will make? Then you will probably need some equipment or supplies. Or is it a product you are going to b...

by Joshua Botello  Transcript: Say goodbye to never-ending workweeks and burnout for your business. Coming up next… I'm Josh from the University of La Verne Small Business Development Center. Here at the SBDC, we provide small business owners free one on one consulting and business tip videos just like this one. So consider subscribing to the channel.  Running a business hard and finding the time to make sure your business runs smoothly is frankly exhausting.  Many small business owners work so long and hard in their business they can never have time to work on growing their business. Which leads to 80 hour work weeks and zero vacations.  In this video, I’ll show you an effective time management technique called time blocking and how to use it for small business success.  What is Time Blocking? So what is time blocking? Time blocking is the time management tool of creating blocks during the day or week where you can focus on a singular task or type of task....