Business Mistake #1: HONOR THE ENTITY Today, we launch our new blog with a 10-part series on Ten Mistakes Businesses Make (and How to Avoid Them). When you choose a business entity for your business – honor it! Regardless of whom you talk to – in-house legal counsel, accounting or marketing – the discussion has to start...
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I was a slow starter. In grammar school, I had a reading tutor, and my father sent me to endless numbers of after-school programs. I really could not sit still. I roamed the neighborhood freely as a social butterfly, walking everywhere –into the downtown, visiting political headquarters during election season and stopping in to ...
On Day Two of our hike in the White Mountains, with the temperature in the negative numbers and the winds near hurricane levels, you quickly learn to listen very carefully to your guides — there were three of them on our hike handling seven hikers. After Day One, my confidence was building: I had maintained a pace, realized what...
We stated in our first blog post in the series, “Ten Mistakes Businesses Make (and How to Avoid Them),” that caring for the corporate entity is important because it defines the degree of liability you may have if you fail to honor the entity. In our second blog post, we will expand upon this idea to discuss what is in the compa...
As we begin the new year, it’s a good idea to proactively think about some of the issues that your business may face in 2018. We outline five challenging issues business owners should consider and recommendations on how to address them. ONE: Finding Talent With strong economic growth figures closing out 2017, the prospect of ...
