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 to get it all done??? Taxes are due on April 17th this year, which means you’ve got just over [...]
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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 like about it is the quick rotation through real people, real business owners, making specific and concrete suggestions. It’s also nice that [...]
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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 statistics. Section 179 Deduction. If your business acquired assets in 2011 either through a lease or by purchasing them out right, you may be eligible to [...]
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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 up faces three initial decisions: (1) Should I form a LLC or corporation?, (2) Where should I form my [...]
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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 a hunch gathered from talking and tweeting and reading, but it seems like nonprofits, social enterprises and the like are [...]
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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 my positive review on Small Business Trends. But I like the story better. It [...]
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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 protection, but not copyright. The courts decided clothes are utilitarian, so there’s no copyright. Lots of industries don’t have copyright. Food dishes, recipes, auto body sculpture, tattoos, and [...]
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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 Facebook has very little legal or historical importance. But there are at least three good reasons to read it: It’s a really good, true story [...]
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Leaders get copied. Artists copy each other and we package it all up and call it a trend or a movement, like the impressionists, or baroque, or whatever. Poets and novelists do the same thing. Television producers copy good shows to make better show or bad shows, until we get sick of them. Buddy cop [...]
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