Category: Small Business
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Small business equity crowdfunding video
A good introductory video explaining small business equity crowdfunding by NextGen Crowdfunding. (At least, IMO, it is as good as a video that consists solely of a lawyer and a business guy in blue blazers sitting talking to each other can be). The 10 minute conversation recorded last fall covers many important points including a short…
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The problem with BNI
Five reasons why lead exchange groups won’t work for me Last month I was invited as an observer to a local meeting of Business Networks International (BNI). The accountant who invited me is a great person and an impressive professional. The meeting and individual members made a strong positive impression on me. The individuals I met were…
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Arizona small business crowdfunding
Arizona joined the growing number of states that allow small business equity crowdfunding within its borders on terms that do not violate federal securities laws. The state’s new small business crowdfunding law went into effect this month. FundMyBusinessAZ.com is a site that operates under a new law signed by the governor that paved the way for…
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Number of uninsured rises; self-employed most affected
Update: The Kaiser Family Foundation published a detailed update on this topic with 2017 data. The number of people without health insurance is rising again after declining with the massive funding of insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. The federal government says that 29 million Americans were uninsured at the beginning of 2016 and this…
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Hubspot digital marketing
I think that Hubspot’s digital marketing blog has some great information and I try to read as many as possible. I would say that it is the overall highest quality blogs on this important and evolving topic. If I could only read one source of information on digital marketing, I would choose this one. This morning’s…
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Tax aspects of charity through crowdfunding
Crowdfunding as a dominant means of peer-to-peer charity has certainly become a huge social trend with widespread implications. This article discusses how crowdfunding has actually replaced the church’s role in this arena. The removal of a “middleman” or “gatekeeper” to charity funding is a complex social issue, according to those who write about the topic. I ave mixed feelings and…
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How do we handle moral failure in politics?
Trump’s candidacy for President has become a moral issue far beyond political disagreement. Now that he is their candidate to the nation’s highest office, Republican party leaders like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan face the problems of damage control to their party’s brand value as Trump spews out divisive…
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Save money by skipping small business accounting
I have a few small business clients who do not bother with traditional accounting. That is, they do not have a system like QuickBooks or something similar to compile, organize and analyze their financial transaction records in real time. In most cases these are sole proprietors. But in one case an owner of a multi-million dollar sales…