A Quick-tip guide for the Startup Entrepreneur Boy oh Boy, I cannot even wrap my head around it being November already. What a year this has been. As a startup entrepreneur, I thought I’d drop in and give some food for thought so that you can learn from my mistakes instead of having to make…
According to the BBC.com/News today, Seattle has voted to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Which will set a record for minimum wage standards throughout the United States. This probes the question: Will the small entrepreneur survive with minimum wage going up while their competitors continue to outsource to foreign countries with astronomically…
The great debate in America these days is focused on whether the minimum wage should be raised from $7.25 an hour to a federal minimum wage of $10.10 an hour. As an entrepreneur, I’m torn. I know raising the minimum wage is morally the right thing to do. But as an entrepreneur, I also know…
NEW: EQUITY-BASED CROWDFUNDING – “Beginning this week, startups can now raise funds through equity-based crowdfunding. It’s the second part of the JOBS Act that was signed into law by President Obama. Sherwood Neiss, the co-founder of Crowdfund Capital Advisors; Alfred Edmond, the multimedia editor at large for Black Enterprise; and Slava Rubin, the co-founder and…
YOUR ANNUAL FINANCIAL TO-DO LIST Things you can do before and for 2013. Presented by Joel Taylor, CFS What financial, business or life priorities do you need to address for 2013? Now is a good time to think about the investing, saving or budgeting methods you could employ toward specific objectives. Some year-end financial moves…