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Professor Misses the Point

Bruce Schierstedt called my attention to a post at Small Business Trends written by Scott Shane.  Scott, who is a professor of entrepreneurship at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, suggests that support for entrepreneurship education is being made for the wrong reasons:

To me, the right reason to support entrepreneurship programs at universities is because educating students about this topic is valuable to them in the sam...

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Watch Your Language: Legal Terminology for Business Entities

Workshak's post on limited liability partnerships (which pulls from Taxgirl's post on ProBlogger) is right about one thing:  that limited liability partnerships (LLPs) are pass-through entities. 

What the post doesn't address is that the LLP statutes in many states make the form less-than-ideal for many multiple-owner businesses.  For example, in some states, LLPs can be used only for businesses whose principals are licensed pro...

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Will the looming recession bloom? Buck up

How many times have you asked, or been asked: ‘How is this recession affecting you?’ or ‘Have you noticed the slowdown yet?’

This seems to be the most looming of recessions - rather like the Year 2000 Bug. I’ve commented before that, despite the media panic, I am just hoping that Recession 2008/9/10 just isn’t going to bite like the media want it to… 

‘No, I’m not seeing much pressure on our sales - but I hear this new recession is going...

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What If Your Business Was Outlawed? Meet Glunz Beer

My guest on the radio show today was Jennifer Glunz Faulk, part of the fourth generation running 120 year old family business Glunz Beers.  Listen to her stories about how they had to sell all their liquor in one day after Prohibition went into effect and where they hid their supply! You think you have problems during [...]