Articles vs Blogs -Prompt 4

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Sometimes the hardest thing in life is finding out how to start something, whether that be talking, doing, or even thinking of a question. It is even hard to find the right beginning to a paper. It can be especially hard when it comes to starting a business if you do not know much a lot about the industry in the first place. Most of the time people turn to researching to find out more information about the subject they are interested in. When researching how to start a business, the search comes up with many great businesses and their stories to success. Many were about entrepreneurs and their story explaining how they got to where they are now. This information can be helpful tips when just starting out, but time-consuming, so I found that the blog Quora would be the most useful for first-time businessmen and women.
On this blog, Quora, when signing up, you are asked about things you are interested in, within the business field and then create results that fit your wants and needs. The feed that is viewed by the reader are questions that were asked and then answered by someone who has had experience or knows the best solution. Sometimes there are business people just relaying valuable information, lessons and techniques on the blog. Then this information is reviewed and checked to make sure it is correct and valid before being shown on the site. The great thing about this is that basically any question you have can be answered. Unfortunately, thinking of the first question to ask may not be as easy to come up with.
If you find out that not all your questions could be answered by this blog you can always turn to articles with advice from someone who has experienced all that you are about too. One article that I found advised entrepreneurs to "fail fast." The software creator Eric Reis found that by testing a simple version of your product to strangers in the mall can give you the feedback you need to know if your product will succeed or not. By doing this, you are able to gauge whether the product has a market or not. Then if this market is available, you have a starting point in your business career.
Both the blog and the article are an excellent way to gain a deeper understanding of what to do when starting a business but one has more strengths.
The article is a more formal and trustworthy way to learn advice from successful business professionals about starting a company, but the limit to this is that the advice is limited to just what you read in the article. Whereas the blog can answer mostly all the questions you may have and if there is no answer they can work hard to find one. The article is more veered towards entrepreneurs who have created a product. While the blog Quora is set up to benefit most of the public. This aspect of the blog is useful because anyone with a question would be able to find an answer on the blog. This blog is also helpful when you are just starting out, and you may have a question about profits, then marketing and also advertising, showing that the blog would have all the answers to all business aspects. The only downfall with the blog is that some may see it as untrustworthy because they do not know who the information is coming from and who is reviewing the information. Ultimately, I think that the blog tries to do their best to limit false information and sometimes personal advice can be extremely useful. Although these two offer different benefits, I believe the blog would actually be better for learning about starting a business. Therefore although both provide useful information about starting a business for first timers the blog provides the most information with a valuable response.

- Erin Connolly