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Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2012 Version

crowdSPRING Blog

The whole dea of this exercise is to make sure that you are not scrambling on January 1st to pull together the documents and data that will be needed to prepare your taxes for 2012. Related posts: Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2011 Version. Ten small business tax planning tips for 2010!

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Do You Really Require a New Business Plan Going Into 2012?

Up and Running

million businesses nationwide. Whether you are a new small business about to unveil itself, or a business that has been around for some time, you will often be asked about your business plan. One reason you hopefully had a business plan in place to begin with was forecasting your timeline for planned growth.

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Lego Locks on To 6 Valuable Leadership Lessons for Small Business Owners

Small Business Force

Whether you’re an early-stage company or have been around for ten years, for entrepreneurs, leading and managing a small business, especially its growth, is never an easy task. ” I was brought in as the CEO to turn around a small publicly-traded technology company. Limit surprises to parties. Good or bad.

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Shark Tank 2012 Holiday Episode Breakdown

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Although Sharktank has been running reruns on Fridays the last few weeks, the show ran a Sharktank 2012 Holiday special on Tuesday night. Even after paying the two founders $100,000 collectively in salary, the business still made a profit in the $125,000 to $150,000 range. This was a crazy deal for the entrepreneurs to take.

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Platinum Rapid Funding Group: How To Run a Successful Team

The Startup Magazine

Ali Mayar , the CEO of Platinum Rapid Funding Group , a company that funds small businesses and helps them achieve their goals. In other words, small companies that are cash-strapped or require working capital stand to benefit from their services. We’ve just started – 2012 was just five years ago. And Beyond?

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Bottoms Up Everyone: A New Economic Revolution Is Upon Us

YoungUpstarts

It’s a massive shift in the way we think about commerce, one that is made possible thanks to platform businesses — the online marketplaces, small business cloud-based companies and crowdfunding sites out there. During the same time, the US labor force lost over a million private wage and salary workers.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

“As your business grows we calculate what we call “Founder Earnings” and Earnest is paid a percentage. Founder Earnings = Net Income + any amount of founders’ salaries over a certain threshold. If you want to eat ramen, pay yourselves a small salary, and reinvest every dollar into growth, we don’t get a penny and that’s okay.

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