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...
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...
