The 5 Biggest Tax Differences Between an LLC and Corporation
Among the many decisions you need to make when launching a business is selecting a business structure. If you do nothing, your business, by default, is structured as either a general partnership (multiple owners) or sole proprietorship (solo owner). These may be the simplest entities to form, but they offer one major drawback: There’s no […]
Do Financial Experts Make Better Decisions Than the Rest of Us? – (Not) – The Atlantic
By Bourree Lam There are experts, and then there’s everybody else. In finance, experts have studied the subject and follow the markets closely, so you’d expect that they’d be superior at betting on the stock market as well as on other financial matters, right? Well, perhaps not so much. As the psychologist Philip Tetlock—who did […]
Disability Lawsuits Against Small Businesses Soar – WSJ
Small-business owners face a growing number of disabled-access lawsuits in the wake of a recent appeals-court ruling giving rise to disabled “testers,” as well as the release of detailed federal specifications for curb ramps, self-opening doors and other standards. For the year through June 30, plaintiffs filed 1,939 lawsuits under a section of the federal […]
Small Businesses To Be Sued Because Their Websites Are Not Handicap Accessible (Wall St Journal)
Businesses should brace for a new crop of so-called “accessibility” lawsuits alleging that their commercial websites fail to comply with federal disabled-access law, lawyers say. For years, advocates for the disabled have fought to apply the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act to e-commerce and mobile apps. Doing so would require small online retailers—and other commercial […]
Is Your Business Data Safe? How To Protect Yourself
While small businesses may not experience a firewall attack or a hacker implanting code in their systems, as has happened with large corporations, they still have information that is attractive to criminals. “Typically, when hackers go after SMBs, they are going after personal identifying information of people who work there,” Falcon says. “And there’s often […]
8 Slow, Difficult Steps to Become a Millionaire | Entrepreneur.com
Money of course isn’t everything. Not by a long shot. Where your definition of success is concerned, money may rank far down the list. Everyone’s definition of “success” is different. Here’s mine: “Success is making those that believed in you look brilliant.” For me, money doesn’t matter all that much, but I’ll confess, it did […]
15 Statistics That Should Change The Business World – But Haven’t | Colin S. | LinkedIn
It still surprises me, even in this day and age, how many people still need convincing that improving the Customer Experience will generate revenue and save costs. As I read this great blog the other day, which highlights many stats from reputable sources clearly showing that improving your Customer Experience drives revenues and save costs, […]