Financial Eyes & Ears

A five-time entrepreneur makes the case for launching a company in Silicon Beach. He’s not the only fan. Los Angeles is the capital of small business in the United States, according to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa, at a reception earlier this month for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalists. L.A., dubbed [...]

How do people think outside of the proverbial box? They know how to view things more expansively. Here’s how. A few years back our litigation team was faced with a seemingly insurmountable task: how to defend our client’s trademark rights against a Fortune 500 company with a massive litigation budget. They had the facts on [...]

Moves by states to collect sales taxes from retailers that use affiliate marketers, which direct Internet traffic to the retailers, are costing marketers heavily.

As I entered the last week of 2011, I had more than $300,000 in cash on hand, plenty of work lined up for the coming year, and a dilemma: Who gets the money?

The structure is not often used by someone whose income comes from writing books, giving talks and doing consulting work.

One of the biggest trends making waves in the coming year is the increase in the number of people who will use their smartphones, tablet computers, and other mobile devices to access the Internet. According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 35% of American adults own a smartphone and 44% of them [...]

Earlier this week, I saw an interesting post by Scott Shane over at SmallBizTrends.com in which he highlights a trend that so far seems to have avoided media scrutiny: an apparent entrepreneurial exodus has been going on over the past five years. Though the number of people taking the entrepreneurial plunge seems to have increased [...]

Women-owned businesses start life with a third less capital than companies owned by men. Some female entrepreneurs say it’s the owner’s fault. Money. You can’t build a business without it. Yet, if you’re a women owner, you probably started with less of it than a comparable man and you will raise less of it as [...]