How Your Small Business Can Boost a Disadvantaged Community
HUBZone small businesses reinvest in their local economies with sole source government contracts. Do you qualify for the program?
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…
Making Money in Pizza
My wife and I have eaten a lot of pizza this summer; way more than we usually eat. It’s not really a problem for us because we have gotten so…
Food Trucks are Hot!
Food trucks are the iPads of the restaurant industry. They are small, portable and very, very popular. We had a client recently who gave up his middle management job with…
Entrepreneur Spotlight: Chalk Fitness
Cayenne Consulting interviewed David Pollitt and Brian Nick, co-founders of Chalk Fitness. Chalk Fitness is a new cross-training concept focusing on personal attention, community, efficiency, results, and value. Their first…
Buying Out a Partner Can Be Tough to Fund
An entrepreneur with a successful ethnic restaurant contacted us about writing a business plan that he intended to use to raise capital so he could buy out his partner. There…
It’s Your Biz – Real World Tips for Building a Business
The leap from employee to entrepreneur is fraught with risks and uncertainties. And every day, newly-minted entrepreneurs charge into the startup world with little appreciation for what that may entail.…
7 Keys to Success in the Micro-Business World
I’m hearing more and more these days about a new type of small business, called a “micro-business” (or micro-enterprise). These are usually characterized as owner-operated, with five employees or less,…
Proactively Protecting Your Brand’s Image Online
These days, your online Internet reputation is your reputation. Of course, having no reputation is usually better than a bad one, but don’t wait for someone else to establish a…
The Bootstrapper’s Business Plan
One of the biggest myths I still see in the community of new entrepreneurs is the assumption that “All I need is a good idea, and some investor will give…