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The Real Meaning of Facebook's Murky Beginnings
How Facebook was Founded, and its two companion pieces on Business Insider, should be required reading for all entrepreneurs and all startups. The fabulously and typically murky early history of...
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Copyright, Copy Right, Protection or Not
I just listened to Johanna Blakley’s Lessons from fashion’s free culture on TED.com, talking about how the fashion industry survives without copyright protection. Fashion designers have trademark...
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How Ideas Grow: Seth Godin Inspires an iPad App
I like this story of how a business app came together even better than I like the app itself. And I do like the app, called NonLinear. I called it A Cool New Tool For Presenting Slides on the Ipad in...
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Nonprofits, Get Over it: You Need to Plan, Too
Hmm . I’m guessing it wasn’t just random that planning for nonprofits came up a lot this week while I was traveling and talking to several entrepreneurship leaders and mentors. I don’t have data, just...
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Some Thoughts about Protected Twitterstreams
My team and I make it a practice to look at the profile page of every single person who follows me on Twitter. We do this for several reasons: I don’t want people who are just hawking their wares and...
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The Three Questions Every Start-Up Should Consider When Forming a New Business
We love the internet, but a 50-state-drop-down menu is not the way to select the best state for your new company. It’s a tax decision, and one you’re stuck with if you choose incorrectly. Every start...
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7 Overlooked Tax Deductions for Small Business Owners
Tax (Photo credit: 401K) According to the IRS, each year millions of taxpayers overlook deductions and credits resulting in overpaying their taxes. Here are seven tips so you won’t become one of the...
View ArticleWhat Can City Hall Do For Your Business
This video from CBS contradicts much of my thinking on this subject: how federal, state, and local governments can boost small business and entrepreneurship. Watch it and see what you think: What I...
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Tax day is just around the corner. Are you ready?
If you’re a U.S. resident and you haven’t done your taxes yet, what are you waiting for? Why are you reading a blog about taxes when you should be compiling receipts, filling out forms, and scrambling...
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You Didn’t Get It in Writing? I Told You So. Now What?
I simultaneously like, don’t like, and disagree with Dealing With – And Enforcing – Verbal Contracts on TheSelfEmployed.Com. And I definitely recommend that you read it. What I like about it is Post...
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One surprising way to possibly avoid an audit
As is the case with many small businesses, owners often don’t take a salary but do incur expenses. I attend many meeting and events to do with my business and am able to charge for my mileage. My...
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Am I Properly Insured as a Business Owner?
Running your small business without the proper insurance is a little like skydiving without a parachute. Many variables determine what sort of business insurance you should carry, including the size of...
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Three Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Wait to Register for a DBA
Filing for a ‘Doing Business As’ name is usually nowhere near the top of a small business owner’s to-do list. It costs money, requires you to fill out paperwork and, depending on where you do business,...
View ArticleShould I Register as a Sole Proprietor?
You’re about to enter the big bad world of owning your own business, and you’ve been advised that becoming a ‘sole trader’ is the best option for yourself. But what is a sole trader, and do the...
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