I recently was watching a home movie of a motorcycle trip I took with my two boys where we traveled through seven southwestern states. As we rode through the hinterlands that make up much of this region, I recall being struck with a business epiphany. I shared this epiphany with my sons at a roadside […]
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while the government may understand the importance of small business in the overall economy, its definition often differs from the way most entrepreneurs may define them. As a result, the methods in which the government can inject money are primarily limited to guaranteeing loans and creating projects for a narrow slice of the business community.
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Understanding monetary policy is critical to understanding why our lives are the way they are. Unfortunately, economics is often viewed by the vast majority of citizens with confusion and boredom. Financial jargon coupled with intimidating mathematics quickly deters people from any attempt at understanding it. That said, our established monetary system exists as one of
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When the Spanish arrived in the new world, they encountered Montezuma, head of the Aztec Empire. The Aztec civilization was a command and control society. By killing Montezuma, the Spaniards easily defeated the remaining Aztecs since their entire society was built around a single, all powerful leader. As they continued their advance, the Spaniards used
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As I write this article, we are in the midst of the political season. Candidates continue to talk about the fact that the middle class in the last decade is not making any progress. They are calling for minimum wage increases to improve their standard of living. I, however, believe they are looking at the
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Some would say that Google has a monopoly on the search engine market with over 2/3 of all search traffic. Microsoft’s Bing is a distant number two with less than 1/5 of the search engine market. Is Google a monopoly that needs to be busted up like AT&T or Standard Oil for the good of
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The next and final environmental forces block is “Macroeconomic Forces.” This section is used to determine if your business model can adjust to macroeconomic shifts. This is where keeping up with current events is important. In addition to watching the world and local news programs each day, I use an internet news aggregator that searches
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Entrepreneurs by their nature are risk takers. With increased risk comes greater reward potential. However, society, in general, is moving towards less risk and less reward. As a society, we are willing to trade security in the form of Social Security in our old age and Affordable Health Care in exchange for the freedom to
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As the federal government grows, it creates incredible drag in the economy. Federal agencies were initially enacted to protect the consumer from bad actors but has expanded its reach to protect the consumer from the consumer. Each time some undesirable event occurs, it creates an imperative to create yet another federal agency. Once created, these
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One of the most confusing issues facing many newbie business people is related to the confusion and frustration related to taxes, vocabulary, and acronyms.
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