Common Sense Advice for Web Entrepreneurs
The New York Times recently ran an article, After Rocky Year for Start-Ups, Investors are Pickier, in which the author, Nicole Perlroth describes how funding may be getting scarcer for…
Making the Most of MOOCs
The Arizona Republic newspaper recently ran a front-page article by Anne Ryman about the explosive growth of MOOCs. MOOCs is an acronym for “Massive Open Online Courses.” These are free…
Moving Electricity: Sometimes, Innovation Isn’t Enough
An old friend named Tim stopped by the office recently to talk about innovation in the electrical utility industry in the United States. Tim has spent 45 years in the…
Are You a Five-Tool Player?
We don’t know who coined the term “Five-tool player,” but it has been a common phrase in baseball for many years. My suspicion is that it may have first been…
We Have The Best Customer Service
What is the one thing that every single entrepreneur says “distinguishes” his or her company from all the others? That’s right: it’s consistent, high-quality customer service. Yep, every single client…
Business Is So Good It’s Killing Me
A call came into our office last week from a stressed-out small business owner in Florida. He said that he needed a business plan right away that he could submit…
How Can My Partner and I Value Our Company?
In a recent post, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, we wrote about the problems that arise when owners of a small business don’t plan for the eventual change…
The Debates
We imagine that most people know that it is “debate season” here in the U.S. as the 2012 Presidential debates dominate media coverage throughout the month. More than 70 million…
The Heart of Any E-2 Application
An experienced immigration attorney in Mesa, Arizona – where there is a great a deal of immigration activity, as you may imagine – contacted us to assist one of his…
Licensing Your Intellectual Property for Fun and Profit
You have a brilliant new invention. Congratulations! But now what? In general, you have two choices: you can build a company, or you can license your concept to another company…