You’ve already built your business around quality products and services, but all too often owners make the mistake of believing these will sell themselves.
Harry Stebbings is the founder and host of TheTwentyMinuteVC, a podcast on a mission to inspire and guide entrepreneurial listeners with insights and advice from successful venture capitalists on the rise.
Let’s say you’ve decided to sell your business. After determining that your company is fit to be offered for sale, your team is ready, and you’re mentally prepared for the months ahead, you have four primary objectives:
If you’ve applied for a small business loan before, you might already be dreading the never-ending process and the unforgiving amounts of paperwork that come with loan applications.
Depending on your perspective, the startup world may seem vibrant, creative, and teeming with opportunity… or volatile, superficial, and rife with mismanagement. As a matter of fact, the same characteristics that look like benefits to one person may look like drawbacks to another
Most of the articles I read about hiring start by saying something along the lines of “hiring is the most important part of building a strong business,” but I disagree.
For those of us who grew up believing there to be nine planets, 2006 was a fateful year. It was the year the International Astronomical Union officially demoted Pluto, reclassifying it as a “dwarf planet” and abruptly altering a fundamental fact of our solar system.
In the world of business taxes, there are three pricey tax penalties businesses can avoid, and—as is true with so many of your tax responsibilities—they all come down to one thing: paying your taxes on time
You’ve just spent weeks tracking down receipts, combing through spreadsheets, triple-checking your math, and sending everything in to the Internal Revenue Service. At last, you’re finally done with last year’s taxes… right? Not quite. The stress and uncertainty of tax season doesn’t end when you file your return.