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Continue reading →: Which Business Structure Should You Choose?A No-BS Guide for Founders Sole prop? LLC? S-Corp? C-Corp? Partnership? Unless you’re an attorney, the options feel overwhelming, especially when everyone online has a strong opinion and none of them are running your business. Here’s the thing: there’s no universally “best” answer. But there is a right answer for…
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Continue reading →: How to Pay Yourself as an EntrepreneurOwner’s Draw, Salary, or Guaranteed Payment, Which One Is Right for You? After founding and selling multiple companies, and currently building another, I’ve sat across the table from a lot of first-time entrepreneurs who are completely stumped by one deceptively simple question: How do I pay myself? It sounds basic…
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Continue reading →: PEO 101: The Complete Guide for Startups and Small Businesses (2026)A Professional Employer Organization can cut your HR overhead, unlock Fortune 500-level benefits, and let you focus on building the business instead of administering it. I’ve run companies with as few as five employees and as many as several dozen. At every stage, the administrative drag of payroll, compliance, and…
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Continue reading →: CAC vs. CPA: The Ultimate Guide for Startup MarketersAs a startup operator, you’re constantly juggling growth, burn rate, and unit economics. One wrong move on acquisition spend and your runway disappears. CAC vs. CPA is one of the most important discussions when analyzing your strategy. Two metrics sit at the center of every smart conversation about scaling: Customer…
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Continue reading →: Money QuotesLast Updated: June 29, 2026 Quote of the Day “Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.” – Charlie Munger, Investor “Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.” – Linus Torvalds, Founder of Linux “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or…
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Continue reading →: 1099 vs W-2: The Complete Guide for Small Business Owners (Taxes, Costs, Pros and Cons)If you’re hiring for your small business, one of the most important decisions you will make is whether to classify someone as a 1099 contractor or a W-2 employee. The difference between 1099 and W2 workers affects payroll taxes, compliance risk, cash flow, control, and even long-term business value. Many…
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Continue reading →: The Small Business Owner’s Guide to Health Insurance (Without the Headache)Introduction Let’s be honest, figuring out health insurance as a sole proprietor or small business owner is not exactly anyone’s idea of a good time. In fact, between running your business, serving customers, and somehow finding time to sleep, the last thing you want is to spend hours decoding insurance…
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Continue reading →: Secondary Markets Explained: Liquidity Without Waiting for an IPOPicture this: your Series B startup is growing fast, but an IPO feels years away. Your earliest engineer wants to buy a house. An angel investor from 2019 needs to rebalance their portfolio. But you can’t dilute the cap table, and there’s no acquisition on the horizon. That’s exactly what…
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Continue reading →: Interest Rates: Your Secret Weapon for Every Money DecisionBankers love to make this sound complicated. It isn’t. Americans are sitting on more than $1.17 trillion in credit card debt, most of it accruing at rates above 22%. That’s not a rounding error; that’s a wealth destruction machine running in the background of millions of households and small businesses.…
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