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Advice From a Successful Female Business Owner: “Don’t Wait Until You are at the Top of Your Game to Get Covered”

Women Entrepreneurs Can

in 2004 and has grown her project management company into a success that makes $1 million in revenue annually. That’s when, Stephens’ mentor and CPA introduced her to the concept of a captive. A 2016 study by Insureon found one third of business owners surveyed experienced an event that could have led to a claim.

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The Private Company Council

YoungUpstarts

Luckily, one organization is hard at work trying to make things more manageable for these middle market companies: The Private Company Council (PCC). With the PCC’s ongoing work, aided by input from CPA firms that understand the private company sector, accounting for this market segment may continue to become increasingly user-friendly.

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Artificial Intelligence: Implications On Marketing, Analytics, And You

Occam's Razor

While the phrase Artificial Intelligence has been around since the first human wondered if she could go further if she had access to entities with inorganic intelligence, it truly jumped the shark in 2016. trillion pictures in 2016. One key thing that stymied my efforts, and likely your ML efforts, in 2016 was Identity.

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Planning Your 2016 Content Marketing Calendar

Duct Tape Marketing

Planning Your 2016 Content Marketing Calendar written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. There are only a few weeks left in 2015, and that means it’s time to start planning your marketing calendar for 2016. Let’s get started: January: Share your goals for 2016. Are you ready?

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Valuation: Is Your Small Business as Priceless as You Think?

Up and Running

Buyers and sellers don’t always agree on what’s valuable and what isn’t, which is why hiring a valuation consultant or a CPA who has experience valuing businesses is a good idea. Talk to your CPA. Aside from you, your CPA has better insight than anyone into your company’s financials. Organize your documents.

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Portrait of an Artist

Professor VC

My dad was a bit of a packrat (something else I managed to inherit). He was not about to trust his taxes to a CPA or even worse, some computer program called TurboTax. He wanted to make sure someone at the IRS knew that 2015 was an anomaly and to expect bigger numbers in 2016. Lt Colonel Wilner N.J. He was so proud of Mom!

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

When laws changed in 2016 allowing fans to own a part of a company, it was evident to me that a fan-owned company had a strategic advantage in the marketplace. To do this, we are constantly evaluating better ways to manage technicians in the field and investing in client-facing software that showcases interactivity. Thanks to Ric A.