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How to Survive being Audited

Tesi Johnson — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:17:09 +0000

Cold sweats and heart palpitations tend to follow receipt of any letter from the IRS, more so when the said letter announces an audit of your tax return. Your natural response might be to panic....

Top 5 Reasons your Business should Hire an Intern

Tesi Johnson — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:02:44 +0000

These days record numbers of well-qualified young graduates are out of work and hungry for relevant on-the-job experience. This presents a fantastic opportunity for small businesses to access...

What would Warren Buffett do?

Tesi Johnson — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:42:49 +0000

If we all could have Warren Buffett as our personal investment advisor the world might be a happier and wealthier place. Alas, Buffett can’t be available at your whim, but his investment strategies...

Cleantech will be 10 times bigger than the Internet

Tesi Johnson — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 14:07:51 +0000

Investors in the nineties who bought shares in pioneering Internet companies like Yahoo! became very wealthy when the Internet blew up. Now, venture capitalists are predicting that Cleantech –...

Why your tech startup should be in Los Angeles

Tesi Johnson — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:01:44 +0000

When you think of Los Angeles, what comes to mind? Botoxed actresses, beachside trysts, Hollywood blockbusters and earthquakes maybe. Internet startups likely never made your list, but they should...

Interview with Mike Vallez of CrazyMike’sApps

Tesi Johnson — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:38:55 +0000

There are iPhone apps, and then there are iPhone ‘crapps’. What differentiates the two is subject to individual opinion, but if it were up to some iPhone application developers, users would be...

3 Movies every Entrepreneur should see

Tesi Johnson — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:06:27 +0000

Movies can be a useful source of entrepreneurial insight and inspiration. For example, if you’re planning a hostile takeover, watch Con Air! Then again, Con Air didn’t end so well for the antagonists...

American Entrepreneurship Education Sucks

Tesi Johnson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:13:50 +0000

A study on entrepreneurship education in 31 countries, including the U.S., found that the state of entrepreneurship education and training in American schools has declined sharply. It went from...

The 3 Biggest Enemies of Innovation

Tesi Johnson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:19:36 +0000

Innovation is arguably the most effective catalyst for business success. If growth, profit and market dominance is what you seek, then innovate! Apple did it, and captured the mp3 playback device...

How to handle children in the office

Tesi Johnson — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:14:16 +0000

People carry their young’uns to work for various reasons: sometimes they can’t get a sitter to watch the child, so they just take them along to the office, and sometimes they just want to show off...