Archive for July 29th, 2005
S Corps Beware! A Lottery You Do Not Want to Win
The Entrepreneurial Mind: Those who own S-corporations (the most common legal form of privately owned businesses) be warned. Inc.com reports that “Internal Revenue Service officials announced on Monday that the organization will examine 5,000 randomly selected S corporation returns from the tax years 2003 and 2004 as part of a new study to determine the [...]
Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches
One year ago: Starting a Business: Advice from the Trenches.
An Alternative to Airport Taxi and Long Term Parking
Dan Sherman: Here’s a new one for you. Provide an alternative to long term airport parking and/or taxi rides to and from the airport. I’m sure there are plenty of places in your town that are a $50+ one way taxi ride to the airport (from people’s houses… etc.) That’s $100+ that is spent on [...]
Forbes.com Best of the Web Small Business
Once again I didn’t make Forbes’ list of best small business blogs. I’m not bitter though, because all of the sites on their list are excellent and definitely deserved to be there. Congratulations. They include: Small Business Trends Entrepreneurial Mind Small Business Brief
Generalists Succeed as Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs must be generalists, according to Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Edward Lazear. He has been studying data from a 1997 survey of about 5,000 Stanford MBA alumni regarding their careers. Dr. Edward Lazear had this to say about entrepreneurs: This view of entrepreneurship is at odds with the intuition of those who believe [...]
