Most business owners concern themselves with growth and expansion, and sometimes, how to make ends meet. When starting or buying a new business, the last thing on your mind is how to exit. However, an exit strategy is a key component of a successful business plan and too few owners give this proper...
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Because I’m a supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement and specifically Occupy Portland, I need to provide an update here as to my current thoughts about the Occupy Portland encampment.
I live downtown and am able to stop by the camp regularly. My guess is that 300-400 people are camping there each night. Out...
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I’ve blogged about the importance of moving your money from the large corporate banks and Wall Street institutions to local banks and credit unions. In this blog post about local banking, I provided some criteria for choosing a local bank. In this blog post, I addressed the Move Your Money movement and provided some...
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I live fairly close to Occupy Portland so I’m able to stop by and visit fairly often. At the encampment you’ll find a mixed bag of issues, people, demands, strategies, tactics, concerns, and stories when visiting.
One common thing is clear however: The need for systemic change.
While our current system has created vast and concentrated...
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In March 2010 I sold my house and moved into a downtown apartment. One of the reasons for moving was to downsize my footprint. I wrote about this in a 2-part blog post (Downsizing Part I and Downsizing Part II). At the time of the move, I got rid of at least 50% of...
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I’ve been down at the events at Occupy Portland every day for at least a few hours since the events started here in Portland on October 6th. There truly is a wide variety of people involved. While we need many more voices engaged, one thing clearly missing up to this point is the voice...
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Yesterday, I attended the Occupy Portland march with approximately 10,000 others. We completely filled Pioneer Courthouse square and spilled onto the adjacent streets. Due to work, I was only able to participate for an hour.
I returned to the occupation around 8pm in the evening to join in solidarity with this movement to change the system. The...
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If you use your home for work or business, you may be entitled to the home office deduction. The home office deduction is one of those wonderful tax deductions that allows a taxpayer to turn an otherwise non-deductible personal expense into deductible business expense.
Over a series of posts, I’m going to review some...
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I’m interested in tax fairness. It doesn’t seem fair to me that giant multi-national corporations, with their teams of lawyers, accountants, and lobbyists, are able to rig the game so they pay no income taxes despite significant profits.
By not paying their fair share, the burden on the rest of us increases while at...
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Last week I attended a local B-Corporation event at The Joinery. The B-Corp community keeps growing and now includes more than 420 business organizations representing more than $2 billion in annual revenues. Oregon has 27 B-Corps.
Four states (Maryland, Virginia, Vermont, and New Jersey) have now passed B-Corp legislation. New York is...
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