3 Business Loan Tips for Veterans

Mar 13, 2016 | Articles

A man from my workshop, “Financing Your Small Business” walked up to me afterwards in the parking lot.  He lamented that he was told in a military retirement workshop to call the Small Business Administration, (SBA) and get a $25,000 loan no questions asked. He...

Will you dare look at your business finances?

Mar 3, 2016 | Articles, Events

Does thinking about looking at your business’ finances make you feel like you’re in a horror film? Here’s a little story for you. A friend of mine loves watching horror films. Once we met for breakfast and she started telling me about “Saw V.” She...

Beware – scarcity thinking impedes profitability.

Feb 2, 2016 | Articles

I’m in the midst of listening to “Scarcity” by  Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir. It has a lot to do with behavioral finance, which is how people really act around money.   I was intrigued by a study they did that shows that our mental bandwidth is...

How will your business grow?

Sep 25, 2015 | Articles

How will your business grow? – Thoughts on estimates and assumptions. Last Saturday I sat on a panel “Get funded!!” at the Hera Venture Summit. Cathy Pucher of SDSU’s Zahn Center brought up a great point that when an entrepreneur creates financial projections...