Clean Up Your Accounting Files

Clean Up Your Accounting Files

Don’t wait for a due diligence or bank review.  Clean up your accounting files now. Clients often ask me to review their accounting files, usually as part of their fundraising preparations.  At times, these deep dives can be informative and rewarding, like a scuba...
How to Improve Social Media?

How to Improve Social Media?

How to improve social media?  Larry Sanger has the answer. One of the founders of Wikipedia, Mr. Sanger has called for social media users to forego their favorite platforms for two days.  He is organizing a social media strike.  His goal is to use this boycott to “. ....
Partnering with Amazon

Partnering with Amazon

“Partnering with Amazon” is the politically correct title choice for this blog.  My alternative, “Sleeping with the Enemy,” though a more accurate description of the reality facing many Amazon sellers, was rejected.  Why?  Call it self-preservation.  One must be...
Boston Is a Great Place for Startups

Boston Is a Great Place for Startups

Boston is a great place for startups.  That’s not necessarily news, but the scope of the resources available to local entrepreneurs may be.  Much has changed in the past decade.  Local startup infrastructure is greatly improved . . . with one notable exception. ...
Is Brex It?

Is Brex It?

Is Brex it?  For charging everyday startup expenses, like meals and travel, it just may be. Brex touts itself as the first corporate credit card for startups.  Brex works with corporations and other forms of non-individual liability companies.   Brex underwrites on...
Work, the Activity Not the Place

Work, the Activity Not the Place

I left the traditional corporate world many years ago and never looked back.  I chose to work at home.  Not missed were the meetings, the politics and the, even more mind-numbing, commute.  According to many recent studies, I was ahead of my time.  It seems that...
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