Is your company experiencing explosive growth? Are you struggling to get past the “launch phase”? Perhaps you’ve successfully achieved that elusive balance between not enough growth and too much growth where your business is steadily expanding at a rate that you can handle. Whatever happens with your own business, it’s fair to say that [...]
“It’s all a numbers game,” you might be thinking. “Our business needs X amount of dollars to finance the equipment we need, hire the people we need, and just to get operations going in general. Beyond that, we’ll need to work for X amount of time until we’re able to turn a profit, which [...]
When we hear something like “We finally did it! The state of our company’s cash flow is finally at a healthy balance, and we’re beginning to expand and turn a profit like never before!”, our working capital lenders know that the hard work that we put into financing and growing that particular business paid [...]
If you’re trying to make it big in a dying industry, then you might want to reconsider your entrepreneurial approach. With the rise and eventual demise of companies like Blockbuster, you wouldn’t open up a brick and mortar video rental shop, would you? We really hope not, because even if you attempted to do [...]
To many, the holiday season, Independence Day, Memorial Day weekend, or even St. Patrick’s day might be their favorite time of year. Of course, everyone has a valid reason (or many valid reasons) to have a favorite time of year. While we might not share this with the majority of people, to no surprise, [...]
Turnover: it’s bad for everyone involved. Ideally, you’ll want to generate equity in your employees as the owner of your business, meaning that they should stick around for a long time. Not only will you have to hire new people to replace your old people, but you’ll also have to retrain them, sift through [...]
We get it — at face value, tax day isn’t that interesting. OK, really, no matter how you look at this financial “holiday,” tax day probably isn’t interesting whatsoever. However, it is an important day whether you’re filing as an individual, a corporation, a sole proprietorship, a partnership, or anyone that’s legally defined as [...]
It’s April 17th, 2018 — which might be just another Tuesday on the calendar, but this is also a date that individuals, businesses, and procrastinators, in particular, tend to dread — it’s Tax Day 2018. Of course, if you’ve waited to file for your small business until reading this post, then it’s fair to [...]
In a free market economy, modern-day capitalism has given rise to some pretty incredible ideas and businesses over the years. Conversely, the ability to launch any idea and bring it to market — as we should have the freedom to do so — has also led to some fairly...well, flat out ridiculous and silly products [...]
If you’ve ever been sitting around and talking with friends, joking about ridiculous app or small business ideas that would never actually exist, your hilarious hypotheticals might not be that far off from the truth. In a time where hovering pizza delivery vehicles, ghost hunting apps and social networking sites for recently laid off employees [...]
