Trouble is, this advice is inconsistent with how real (small) businesses operate , as you can often see for yourself in the same articles that promote the use of the business plan. But later she quotes a successful entrepreneur who admits "We operated with no real plan for years" and "Things don't generally go as planned.". source). MORE >>

Expenses (usually called operating expenses): office rent, administrative and marketing and development payroll, telephone bills, Internet access, all those things a business pays for but doesn’t resell.  Tweet This is a rewrite of an older post, but it seems like a good one to repeat. So there are these six terms to learn.  MORE >>

Essays choices finance investment pricing productivityEveryone says small startups require focus. Say “no&# to anything that distracts from your goal, your vision, your strategy, tempting though it is to explore all opportunities, hoping each time that this is the one that will catapult you from  Mixergy listener to Mixergy interviewee. MORE >>

If the volume of IPOs per year during 1980–2000 had been maintained during 2001–2011, i.e., 298 domestic operating company IPOs per year rather than ninety per year, and if each of the 208 additional IPOs per year had created 822 jobs, the 2,288 additional IPOs would have created 1.881 million more jobs, a far smaller number than the 22.7 MORE >>

ReverbNation is looking for a finance & operations manager. That person will report to Chris Smith, their CFO and be responsible for business processes and analyses in the areas of finance, accounting, operations, HR, legal and customer support. Here is a great opportunity in a fast growing company in our portfolio. MORE >>