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Continue reading →: What Happens to a Business When the Owner Dies (2026)The estate tax is rarely the thing that kills a closely held company. The buy-sell agreement nobody updated usually gets there first. More than half of U.S. small-business owners are now over age 55, up roughly 30% since the early 2000s, and one in four is 65 or older. McKinsey…
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Continue reading →: Strategic vs. Financial Buyer: A 2026 Founder’s GuideThe highest-stakes call in a sale is not the price, it is which kind of buyer you hand the keys to. The first time I watched a founder take the lower offer, the gap was eleven million dollars and the reason was one line in the LOI about who kept…
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Continue reading →: Business Formation Statistics 2026: The Boom Is HollowAmerica is filing business paperwork at a record pace, yet the businesses that hire people have barely grown in five years. In my experience as a small business owner, an EIN takes an afternoon and a payroll takes a year. That gap is the entire story hiding inside this dataset.…
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Continue reading →: LLC vs C-Corp at Exit: The 2026 Asset Sale Tax MathThe structure of your exit moves more after-tax dollars than the multiple does, and your entity type decides who wins that fight. Sell a $5 million business with almost no tax basis and the entity type on your operating agreement is worth $800,100. As an LLC, the owner keeps roughly…
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Continue reading →: Most Popular Golf Clubs on Tour: 2026 Brand ReportFour brands control almost everything tour pros put in play, and the businesses behind those brands are changing hands faster than the clubs are. My instructor told me last spring that my swing reminded him of Billy Casper, which felt like a compliment until I remembered Casper won 51 PGA…
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Continue reading →: Inheritance Tax Rules in 2026: What Heirs Actually OweMost families will never owe a dollar of federal estate tax, which means the money lost in an inheritance is almost always lost somewhere else. I have never received an inheritance, and estate planning is one of the few corners of finance where I have read a lot more than…
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Continue reading →: The Best Public Market Investment Platforms in 2026Commissions hit zero years ago, so the money now leaks out through cash yields, margin rates, and options pricing that almost nobody reads before opening the account. Having written 50-plus angel checks, I keep the liquid side of my portfolio in a plain brokerage account, and the only cost line…
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Continue reading →: Best Private Market Investment Platforms in the US 2026The platforms that sell individuals access to private equity, pre-IPO shares, and private credit consolidated fast this year, and where you open an account now decides what you are actually allowed to buy. Fifty-plus angel checks in, the hard part has never been finding interesting private companies. It has been…
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Continue reading →: Debt Settlement: What Those TV Ads Don’t SayThe ads sell a discount, and the product is a multi-year process whose fees, tax exposure, and credit damage routinely eat that discount whole. A guy I have known since my banking days called me in February after dialing one of these numbers during a late-night ad break. He had…
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Continue reading →: 10 Creative Ways to Fund Your StartupVenture capital set records this year, and almost none of that money reached companies like yours, which is why the founders who keep moving are stacking two or three sources instead of chasing one. Having been involved in dozens of startups, I almost never see a company reach its next…
