by Leif Jensen | Jun 14, 2016 | General |
It seems that unicorns do exist and they have been around for a while. A Unicorn is a start-up company valued at over $1 billion, and private investors have put $362 billion over 5 years. Thus pumping up the paper value of unicorns, the largest being Uber,...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 13, 2016 | General |
May 18, 2016, President Obama and Labor Secretary Perez announced the publication of the Department of Labor’s final rule updating the overtime regulations. These changes go into effect in December. The plan is to reduce overwork, which was not a problem most...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 8, 2016 | General |
Do you run your business with a budget? If o how do you develop your budget? Is it based upon a static increase based on an inflationary increase of say 3% or is it developed on real measurable and planned growth based upon client expectations of the coming year....
by Leif Jensen | Jun 7, 2016 | General |
As a small business owner you have limited time to spend on your business. This of course is assuming that you a life to go along with your business. So you have to pick your activities with care. You want to insure that you are being productive and not just busy. I...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 6, 2016 | General |
This past tax season I had to have the conversation with a client that their business had more things in common with hobby than a business. They had consistent loses for a number of years and some of the nine factors were not being met. Those Nine factors are:...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 2, 2016 | General |
I was reading a magazine; yes I am 100 years old and read magazines and newspapers. I also use the internet, but I like to tactile relationship to my reading matter. I prefer to hold a book to a Fire. But, I digress. The Q&A section that I was perusing was...
by Leif Jensen | Jun 1, 2016 | General |
I have clients who have family members working in their business. I have family members working in my business. I have and had all three of my kids working in my business. The eldest has been hired and fired more times than both of us can count, working for me is...
by Leif Jensen | May 31, 2016 | General |
According to an Entrepreneur columnist, no speaking creates the illusion that you are intelligent. When we had an employee that never asked a question we thought it was odd, because we expected lots and lots of questions. When we did not get them, we looked deeper...
by Leif Jensen | May 25, 2016 | General |
The University of Chicago houses an Innovation Exchange. This Business Incubator can provide space, mentorship and support to early stage start-ups. The costs do not seem unreasonable for what is given. There are monthly mentoring sessions, introductions to experts,...
by Leif Jensen | May 24, 2016 | General |
Women taking control over their own destiny is increasing. Women starting businesses grew at a rate of 74% between 1997 and 2015; or at a rate of 1.5 times the national average, according to the “2015 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report”. Woman currently own 30%...
by Leif Jensen | May 23, 2016 | General |
Illinois Small Business Development Centers- SBDC It seems that Illinois has a resource for people thinking of starting or growing a small business, their Small Business Resource Centers. For the most part they seem to be tied to colleges and Chambers of...
by Leif Jensen | May 20, 2016 | General |
On Wednesday, May 18, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division released its final updated FLSA overtime regulations. While some of the changes were expected, there are a number of surprises. First, the new salary threshold for exempt...
by Leif Jensen | May 20, 2016 | General |
According to a Fast Company Article we have 20 lessons that we can learn from design. Design is innovation and innovation is design Design inspires Emotion is as important as utility Good design overcomes discomfort Simple design is not simple The first...
by Leif Jensen | May 19, 2016 | General |
Due to a number of factors, some of which can and have been viewed as malicious we lost our website and the back-up. So at the height of tax season we had no website. It also took over two weeks to just get a temporary placeholder up and in place, just to let the...
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by Leif Jensen | Apr 1, 2016 | Case Study |
This one is a bit atypical to explain, but I will give it a whirl. I handle the books for a business, simple enough. I handle the personal taxes for one of the several owners. One of the owners for whom I do not handle their personal taxes has requested...
by Leif Jensen | Mar 9, 2016 | General |
I have to admit that there are projects that I plan on doing it myself and there are others that terrify me or I just don’t do well and so I hire the professionals to address. Typically from the outside looking in they probably do not make any sense. Like I have...
by Leif Jensen | Mar 8, 2016 | General |
At some point Maine West HS in District 207, made a change that has me scratching my head at to what is wrong with these people. In the back entrance of the school where the police assist drivers in and out of the parking lot for safety, drivers are no longer able to...
by Leif Jensen | Mar 7, 2016 | General |
I have never done the ROI on solar panels. I probably should, I typically am that anal about wanting to know why people do what they do. I bring this up because a neighbor across the street has 9 solar panels facing south on their roof. The house it tiny so they...
by Leif Jensen | Mar 2, 2016 | General |
At this time of year I get to talk to more people about what they are doing and how they are doing it. People seem to be more open, or possibly so overwhelmed that their guards are down and they answer more freely. So I have been asking if they use financial...
