It’s common for people to avoid thinking about taxes until filing season is upon them. Unfortunately, this can lead to missed opportunities to reduce tax payments. Planning ahead and understanding tax rules is useful for investors to optimize their finances year-round…
Entrepreneurs face a constant money challenge. From just making payroll to buying the next big piece of equipment, it’s hard to ever really feel secure with how much cash you have.
Some side hustle businesses could be started with literally no money. But any business that requires your full focus and provides a good living…
The average venture capital firm screens 350 companies and makes only four investments in any given year. A recent study from the Journal of Financial Economics surveyed 885 institutional venture capitalists and 681 firms on how they make their investment decisions. The results showed that when selecting investments, VCs focus more on the management...
A family budget is a delicate thing to balance, even without a pandemic crashing through and jumbling your finances.
In a chaotic year like this, with the country dealing with a recession, ugly unemployment rates, political tensions and new waves of the coronavirus, you’ll need to arm yourself with some...
Why does an investor choose to invest in one business venture and pass on another?
For some investors, it can be an arduous process assessing a company’s potential and trying to determine which has that unique mix of ingredients that will ultimately end in a success story. And many times…
Not keeping track of your balance sheet is one of the quickest ways to doom your business. You need to know whether you can make debt payments, if you have too much inventory, and even how much your customers owe you.
The first step to reading a balance sheet is understanding the difference between assets and liabilities…
Robo-advisers have become tremendously popular over the last decade, and rightly so. They automate the investing process for you, making it simple to invest in a diversified portfolio of assets, and they charge much less than a typical financial adviser. So it’s little wonder that many investors have turned to them, and robo-advisers now manage hundreds of billions…