Although it isn’t compulsory to register a business with the state or local government to complete business transactions, businesses are incentivised to do so to reap...
If you’ve started a business or have thought about starting one, then your mind will be a flurry of activity, as you try to put your...
After ten years the plan was to retire: either Trevor could sell his business and generate a retirement fund, or pass the business...
Your parents, 3rd grade teacher, college professor and Giant Corporation, Inc. all have you chasing the wrong dream. It’s no wonder most people aren’t excited about...
The velocity of the dollar. Macro capitalism has given micro-capitalism a bad name. The purpose of capitalism is to create the velocity of the dollar locally...
The overwhelming majority of small business advice is from people showing us how Giant Corporation, Inc. managed to free themselves from the drudgery of being small...
We’re all supposed to think the rugged individualist is the great American way to do business. I’m a reformed rugged individualist and can tell you that...
ShopLocally.com aims to change the world, not just make money. My company, The Crankset Group, is focused on the same thing. We’re going to do it...
As business consultants, we are often asked why one business succeeds and another, almost identical, business flounders. Once, feeling rather facetious, I answered: "It's in the...
Just about every business owner I know is a hostage to his or her business. How do we break free? By first becoming a willing prisoner...
I built five businesses from the ground up. Each time in the process I found myself as a hostage of my business, never knowing how it...
Some capitalists seem to be very threatened by the idea of social entrepreneurship either because it has the word social in it (too close to socialism...
Where do most of your sales come from? When I’ve asked this question in a weekly lunch I do with 60 business leaders, 59 of them...
It’s surprising to me how often I see all the classic definitions of a business that don’t define or describe a business well at all. If...
Business divides pretty neatly into seven categories or “elements” that all businesses must pay attention to in order to be successful. They exist whether we pay...
Your business has the same issues as those I visited in Kenya. In the final analysis, there’s only one number in business that really matters, you’re...
