So I’m late.

Two-and-a-half months late to be precise. Judge me.

On Jan. 12, the humanitarian aid blogosphere and liberal American news outlets were flooded with one-year post-quake assessments of Haiti, which I took stock of, bookmarked, but ultimately never read.

I already… Read the rest

Malcolm Gladwell recently published an article in the New Yorker criticizing that true high-risk activism has lost its power and that the activism done through social media could never compare to the level of sacrifice and passion needed to push for social or political change.… Read the rest

We left off in my last blog post at Enforcement. The best part! So if the green guides when applied can be pretty stringent and since we can probably agree that most companies, whether or not unwittingly, violate the standards, then why don’t we have… Read the rest

Everyday I log into Facebook, like the other 500 million Facebook users, to see what my friends are thinking, experiencing, and “liking.” With regard to the latter, I have never cared enough to actively seek out Facebook Pages to “like,” but there was one that… Read the rest

Last June, I moderated a conversation between the House Budget Committee Chairman, Democrat Congressman John C. Spratt, and Ranking Member, Republican Congressman Paul Ryan. As we discussed entitlement spending and financial literacy, I posed a question regarding who should be responsible for a person’s retirement… Read the rest

Media headlines are somber reflections of our economic times, but the subtext of the news is screaming about business opportunity!

Seeing several bubble bursts over the course of our lives, Generation Ys spending and savings habits are much more like our grandparents generation than our… Read the rest

“This is stupid.”

“He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

“Is that a hair coming out of her nose?”

You’ve probably heard similar comments and worse in person and especially online where small people use the keyboard as a weapon and the screen as a… Read the rest

This is not another article about beating the odds as a startup. Instead, the following offers some insight into entering contracts with provisions to minimize loss in case things don’t go as planned.

Whether you are opening a store front or setting up an office… Read the rest

Young, creative, and ready to launch a website? Before you sign off on the site design, use some common sense to avoid legal hazards. While you may not be able to completely eliminate liability, you can substantially minimize it.

E-commerce is a Two Way Street… Read the rest

A “Limited Liability Company” (“LLC”) is a bit of a hybrid entity in that it allows for “pass through” taxation but offers the liability protection that is often the basis for creating an entity.

I consistently recommend the LLC to the majority of my clients… Read the rest