Starting a business from scratch is difficult. You have to figure everything out on your own and in the process you inevitability make mistakes. Some of them costly. Some of them just frustrating. Hopefully, none results in the loss of your business, but there is an inherent level of risk involved. Buying a franchise minimizes […]
Entrepreneurs spend a lot of time thinking of great ideas to build a business and eventually make money. Hackers today seem to be spending even more time thinking of larcenous ideas to build great scams and make money ASAP. Let’s check in with some of the latest scams so we can better protect ourselves. Verification […]
I can’t tell you if the S&P 500 will be up a year from now, but I can tell you that scams targeting small businesses will have increased. My hope is that our awareness and vigilance increase even more. With that aim in mind, let’s look at one scam that’s making the rounds right now […]
There has been a lot of news recently about multi-level marketing companies. However, most of it has appeared in investment articles, not on the business pages. Billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman has been waging a public battle against the huge MLM company Herbalife, claiming that it’s a pyramid scheme. Holding a short position on […]
Serendipitous failures……..At first the two words don’t seem to be natural partners. But in the history of inventions, they occasionally play together quite nicely. As we gather on March 6 to celebrate the 72nd birthday of the invention of Silly Putty, I’m reminded of how sometimes when things go wrong, they can actually be going […]