IRS summertime tax tip: independent contractor versus employee

Here’s another of those Summertime Tax Tips from everybody’s favorite federal agency: the Internal Revenue Service. Once again, I’ve found most of these to be fairly useless from a microbusiness point of view but, when it comes to the perennial independent contractor versus employee question, there’s no such thing as too much information. And, if [...]

Small business statistical speculating

The SBA Office of Advocacy released an update of its Frequently Asked Questions this week.
That’s their two pager that might just as easily be called Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Small Business By the Numbers.
It is essentially a statistical document but, of course, it doesn’t include the statistics I usually toss around because [...]

Business incubators go American Idol

Here’s one from the life-imitates-art files that I’ve been meaning to tell you about.
I learn from my friends at the Kauffman Foundation that there’s a new take on seed funding out there that sort of combines the traditional incubator with, of all things, American Idol, to get something they are calling ‘accelerators.’
This so-called new “accelerator” [...]

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