YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2016

by Tim Steffen , CPA/PFS, CFP ® , CPWA ® , Director of Financial Planning for Baird. Among a growing number of Millennials, there is a real desire to become an entrepreneur, and a belief that starting a business can be a way to attain both independence and wealth. In fact, many new businesses don’t pan out.

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2012

And self-financing puts the emphasis on business credit. If you’re a small business owner, navigating the lending world today can feel like one big Catch-22 loop. For this reason, many small business owners lean on their personal credit to fund their business. Maintain a good personal credit rating.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Taxfyle is an innovative consumer, small business and enterprise SaaS accounting-tech company. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 11, 2017

Small business owners and entrepreneurs often find themselves dealing with two separate yet related issues: One is the trouble of doing their own books (including navigating the complex tax system) when that’s really not a core competency and takes them away from things they actually got into business to do.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Like it or not, healthy finances mean that you’re running a healthy business. Strong businesses have strong fundamentals, and among the most important of those fundamentals falls into the hands of the accounting and finance department. Money is business, and businesses certainly can’t operate without it.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 4, 2016

In this episode we discuss the accounting basics that every entrepreneur needs to know. She is CEO and Principal of the New Vision CPA Group, a public accounting firm based in the Chicago area. Jody is the author of “The Radical CPA: New Rules for the Future-Ready Firm,” a book that sparked a movement within the profession.

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Up and Running

APRIL 2, 2015

I was really disappointed when I needed my company’s first commercial bank loan to finance receivables of more than $1 million—from well-known distributors no less—and we ended up having to sign a lien on our family home to get the loan. Business plan. See Also Small Business Owners, Start Tracking Your Financial Metrics.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 25, 2021

The business world is witnessing a high number of women entrepreneurs in the corporate sector. This accelerates the number of female workers and entrepreneurs in the town while empowering the females’ working status in society. Set the reliable and well-planned objectives of the business with a forecasted plan of action.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. In the life cycle of an entrepreneur, shutting the doors on a business isn’t necessarily a gloomy situation. Small business.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 8, 2020

The decisions you make can make or break the future of a business hence due diligence is necessary before making bold decisions. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they make bold decisions and here are the responses. #1- Taking risks and making bold decisions are a significant part of business.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 8, 2012

This post is the third in a series about Entrepreneurial DNA – an exploration of what makes entrepreneurs different from one another. This behavioral profile drives entrepreneurs to be highly optimistic, wired for ground floor opportunities and driven to make as much money as fast as possible – in as many industries as possible.

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Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In early stage companies (and even some later stage or mature ones), there is no one area where most entrepreneurs and small business owners are lacking in just basic fundamentals, than in dealing with their company's finances and financial management. The Entrepreneur's Yoda" knows these things. He's been there.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Business advisors, experienced entrepreneurs, bankers, and investors generally agree that you should develop a business plan before you start a business. That makes your planning easier.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 20, 2014

However, DIY is a terrible idea when the task is complicated and failure can bring down your entire business. This is why taxes are the ultimate DIY snare for business owners. Entrepreneurs and small business owners feel that filing tax returns (sales; payroll; franchise, etc.) should be a DIY process.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

and now schoolofbookkeeping.com is one of the leaders in the small business accounting world in online training resources offering courses on a wide range of software products. CPA’s. Seth David attended Pace University and received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting with an emphasis on Public Accounting.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I had the opportunity to speak with Melinda Emerson, the “SmallBizLady” and America’s #1 small business expert, who took the opportunity to share with us her proven, step-by-step method to transition from employee to entrepreneur. When you are an entrepreneur you kill for your dinner every day.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 6, 2011

In two previous columns, we began looking at the "three-legged-stool" -- that is, whom small businesses need as supporting advisers. The first two legs were a business-minded attorney and a CPA. The final leg of the stool is a business banker. Banks are not in business to take equity risk," Joiner said.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Make time to work on your business, not just in your business. This includes reading lots of business books, watching TED talks, and being an entrepreneur and business owner. You need a name for your business and it needs an identity. You need a federal EIN to identify your business to the IRS.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

For the strategy part of a lean business plan, write a few bullet points. Because what happens, and we’ve all been there, is the entrepreneur, we want to do everything for everybody. You don’t have to be CPA or MBA. If you know how to run your business, you can forecast. In all cases, it’s focus.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. You do in small business, in startups, you survive on focus, and my shortcut to strategy that I like is think about identify, market and business offering.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner with questions about funding your small business? Maybe you are wondering which metrics to track, or whether or not you should take out a loan for your business. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Sunil contacted me asking if he could apply to become a columnist on Entrepreneurs-Journey. I asked him what are the highlights of his “career&# as an entrepreneur so I could be confident in his credibility and he had stories to tell that we could all learn from. I understand personal finance. I understand my profession.

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