Entrepreneur Articles
The last thing a business owner/entrepreneur wants to do is spend a lot
of time with an insurance agent. When I came into this business as
an agent, I learned quickly that an entrepreneur has a short attention
span...
Any owner of a successful, privately held, small business will tell you
that businesses are fun to build, but that the tax system does not
provide many benefits to ownership. Short of selling the stock in their
company, outright to a third party, they have few ways to derive...
Joseph Schumpeter would have loved today’s stock market.
Schumpeter (1883-1950), an Austrian economist who emigrated to the U.S.
and taught the dismal science at Harvard, would have seen opportunity
around the corner for those applying his theories on growth in today’s
marketplace. Schumpeter focused his...
The tech bubble burst and subsequent restructuring place in corporate
America has cast talented workers out of jobs. Many of these
talented workers, armed with a “can do” attitude and entrepreneurial
talents honed in the past five years, can be expected to go off and
start their own small...
Congress has been asked to consider cutting estate taxes as part
of its annual quest to provide tax relief to the masses. To some,
cutting estate taxes is not relief for the “masses”—rather it appeals to
the “classes” of wealthy with large enough wealth to qualify for this
highest...
Whether you are trying to acquire new customers or retain
existing ones, there are several critical components to a direct marketing
campaign that must be considered to ensure its success...
Congress made it easy for the self-employed and small business owners to
save for retirement with the Simplified Employee Pension (SEP—pronounced
“sep”) plan. A SEP allows an individual to put up to $40,000 a
year, tax deductible, into...
George Soros is the chairman of Soros Fund Management, which had its
beginnings in 1969 as the Quantum Fund. It returned more than 4000%
during the next 10 years, and created the bulk of the...
Born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1930, Warren Buffett is a wealthy businessman
and considered as the world’s most successful stock market investor.
Through intelligently executed investments, Warren Buffett has...
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