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3 Ways Second Draw PPP Is Designed to Help Small Businesses

It’s hard to believe it’s been almost a year since the coronavirus pandemic took hold and disrupted every corner of daily life— Main Street being one of them. The past months brought unprecedented strife for small businesses, and the small business owners that have managed to keep their doors open are fighting hard to...

Accenture Ventures Leader Says Time Is Now for Black Entrepreneurs

Accenture Ventures leader Kathryn Ross has advice for black founders that could be initially deemed counter-intuitive. In the middle of the pandemic, Ross says it’s time to actually buckle in and accelerate. And she tells Ramon Ray exactly why she thinks that and how that should be done. Kathryn is well-placed to shares insights about...

The Problem with Small Business Statistics (and a Solution)

We’ve long heard that small businesses are the backbone of the U.S. economy. And with 31.7 million such businesses, they are indisputably a powerful economic force. Yet, just as the stock market is a composite of tech, healthcare, consumer and other companies with very different stories to tell, I’ve long believed that the statistics...

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Which Companies Are Going To Crush Lockdown 2.0? [Accountants’ Overview]

Building and maintaining a worthwhile business has always been a monumental task. The march of technology has given entrepreneurs many opportunities to prove themselves and make a profit, but also made it an ultra-competitive endeavor that required a lot of dedication and commitment. The advent of COVID-19 upped the difficulty of the game by...

Money Management

Money Management During COVID-19

Ramon spoke with two money experts — Carol Roth and Tricia Taitt — about how to handle finances and money during COVID-19. If you're a business owner, then you know first-hand how rapid the changes in cash flow have been. Did you prepare for something like this? Probably not, but that's ok! Most businesses didn't....

Business growth

Ready to Grow Fast? 5 Sales Questions to Ask if You Want Big Business Growth

Getting your startup off the ground can be daunting. There is a lot to do, and it's hard to do alone. And then there is business growth — being able to scale and expand. Some of the hardest challenges businesses face are around this topic of growth. It takes more than just making money....

New Book – Fix This Next – With Mike Michalowicz

Small business owners get caught up in the smoke of constantly putting out fires under duress, all the while missing what it is that their business needs to stay profitable and continue to grow. It is this central problem that Mike tackles in his best-selling book, Profit First, and its recent follow-up, Fix This...