When small businesses are first launched, fights between the owners rarely happen....As the business grows, however, the likelihood of disagreements between the owners multiplies... More >>

...It's hard to say something new and different in a startup guide, but Ed 'Skip' McLaughlin and co-author Wyn Lydecker (a small business expert in her own right) have managed to do it... More >>

...One of the hardest choices you will have to make in your career is that between a solid entrepreneurial opportunity (which this sounds like), and a loving family that just wants you to grind out the paychecks twice a month... More >>

...As my buddy and I walked down the Las Vegas strip late one summer night, I asked, 'What would it be like to own all of this - to own all the money, land, buildings, and cars in the world?'... More >>

...Every once in a while, I sense that the students aren't putting in the time necessary on their plans - this tends to take place especially around the time the midterm exam is due - and I feel the need to give them a 'pep talk' to keep them motivated. Here is the e-mail I send my students when I feel the need to light a fire under their you-know-whats... More >>

...Every once in a while a book comes along that's a real 'game changer' - it challenges accepted wisdom, shows you a new way of looking at an old problem... More >>

...As always when I attend a trade show, I spend a fair amount of time wandering around the exhibition hall looking for small companies with unique or different solutions to the problems Internet retailers commonly face... More >>

...Take a look at your company's bylaws (there should be a copy in the minute book your lawyer gave you when he set up the company). There probably is a provision in there requiring you to have a meeting of stockholders at least once a year, usually at a specific time of year.... More >>

...What Government does (or does not do) impacts all of us, and I'm sure both leading candidates will be pitching for the 'small business vote' this fall... More >>

I was amused to read, in the Wall Street Journal last week, an article about a human resources consultant who has developed a popular (and apparently very lucrative) program for corporate HR executives on 'understanding the Millennial generation'... More >>