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15 Ways to Improve Your Cash Flow Now
15 Ways to Improve Your Cash Flow Now By Howard Fletcher Cash management theory and techniques are well understood and practiced by treasury managers in large corporations. They use sophisticated models and cash management tools that allow them to predict and manage cash. Many of these are beyond the reach or need of small companies.…
Survey: Biggest Challenges Facing California Businesses
Survey: Biggest Challenges Facing California Businesses A recent survey was conducted to determine what business owners in California thought the biggest challenges facing their businesses were. Out of 1500 questionnaires, these are the percentage of respondents who checked off a box next to each challenge. (Respondents were allowed to select more than one box, so…
5 Strategies to Successful Cash Flow Management
5 Strategies to Successful Cash Flow Management By John Reddish How can you predict, avoid and/or, minimize the impact of a cash emergency? Managing cash flow is every manager’s challenge, every day, every year. Those managers who keep a close eye on their daily activity and emerging industry trends can help reduce their company’s exposure…
15 Tips to Streamline Your Business and Become Profitable in 2007
15 Tips to Streamline Your Business and Become Profitable in 2007 By Julian Stone Here are some tips to help you ‘cut the fat’ and improve the productivity of your business. If you apply a few of these, you’re well on your way to achieving greater profit and creating less stress! Cut the SlackersCut the…
10 Ways to Increase Your Profitability
10 Ways to Increase Your Profitability “Profitability is as dependent on cutting costs as it is on increasing sales.” Profitability is as dependent on cutting costs at it is on increasing sales. As financial advisors, we are often called upon to assist management in reducing costs and finding alternatives to their unique situations. We have…
10 Mistakes That Reduce Profitability
10 Mistakes That Reduce Profitability By Rachna D. Jain In my professional experience as a sales and marketing coach/consultant, I’ve had the opportunity to work with a number of small business owners on various issues related to sales and marketing. The owners who are struggling to keep their businesses afloat tend to engage in some,…
Retirement Plan Options For Small Businesses
Retirement Plan Options For Small Businesses Updated: 1/4/2013 According to The Pension & Welfare Benefits Administration, small businesses employ about half of the private-sector workforce in the United States. However, a majority of small businesses do not offer their workers retirement savings benefits. If you’re like many other small business owners in the United States,…
Changes in Healthcare | Dennis Wolfe
Changes in Healthcare | Dennis Wolfe Transcript: Announcer 0:00 Welcome to American Dreams keys to success with your host Alan Olsen. Alan 0:05 Welcome back. We’re here today with Dennis Wolf. Dennis is a healthcare consultant specialist and I want to talk about nationalized healthcare. Dennis, welcome to today’s show. Dennis 0:16 Thanks for having…
How To Become a Leader – Richard King, past President of Rotary International
How To Become a Leader – Richard King, past President of Rotary International Alan I’m here today with Richard King Richard King is a attorney with King King and King here in the Silicon Valley, and also served as the International rotary president in 2000 to 2003 2001 2000 to 2000, late 2002. Thank you,…
Recipe to Success – Noah Alper, founder of Noah’s Bagels
Recipe to Success – Noah Alper, founder of Noah’s Bagels Transcript: Announcer Welcome to American Dreams keys to success with your host, Alan Olsen. Welcome Alan back. I’m here today with Noah Alper. He is the founder of Noah’s bagels, and also a serial entrepreneur. Noah, welcome to today’s show. Noah Thank you, Alan. It’s…
Angels and Entrepreneurs – Venk Shukla, Chairman of TiE Angels
Angels and Entrepreneurs – Venk Shukla, Chairman of TiE Angels Transcript: Announcer 0:00 Welcome to American Dreams keys to success with your host, Ellen Olsen. Alan 0:05 Welcome back. I’m here today with Venk Shukla. vincas, the current president of Thai tea, ie, it’s a Silicon Valley organization comprised of entrepreneurs here in the valley,…
Tim Draper: How I got into Venture Capital
Episode Transcript of: Tim Draper: How I got into Venture Capital Alan Welcome back. I’m here today with Tim Draper. Tim is the founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a founding partner of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He’s the headmaster at Draper University. He is also founder or creator of viral marketing. And he’s also a proponent…
2015 Tax | Ron Cohen
Interview Transcript of: 2015 Tax | Ron Cohen Alan Welcome back. I’m here today with Ron Cohen. Ron is a partner in the firm of Greenstone Rogoff and Olson, and Ron’s Good to have you on today’s show. Ron Thank you. Good to be here. Alan So, Ron, how did you end up as a…
Scouting Leaders for Life | Ken Melhorn
Episode Transcript of: Scouting Leaders for Life | Ken Melhorn Alan Welcome back. I’m here today with Ken Melhorn. Ken is executive director at the Bay Area Boy Scouts. Welcome to today’s show. Ken Thanks, Alan. Thanks for having me here. Alan So you kind of at 20,000 Scouts in the organization here, Ken…
The Finanseer | Megan Lathrop
The Finanseer | Megan Lathrop Alan Welcome back. I’m here today with Megan Lathrop. Megan is a finanseer. Megan, what is a and finanseer? Megan Yeah great question. I will obviously it’s a play on words from an actual finanseer, but I spell it seer, which means I help people see and illuminate their unconscious…
Omni Channel Entrepreneurship | Alexandra Mysoor
Episode Transcript of: Omni Channel Entrepreneurship | Alexandra Mysoor Alexandra Mysoor What omni channel really means is taking a holistic approach to your brand. It’s not being channel agnostic. It’s not just being an ecommerce distribution platform or bricks and mortar or even in some cases catalog Believe it or not, it’s still a very…
Stanford University-School Of Engineering | Richard Dasher
Stanford University-School Of Engineering | Richard Dasher Alan Welcome back. I’m here today with Richard Dasher. He’s a PhD from Stanford University where he serves the roles of director of the US Asia Technology Management Center. And he’s also the executive director at the Center for Integrated Systems and consulting. Welcome to the show.…
Situational Leadership | Tim Kearin
Episode Transcript of: Situational Leadership | Tim Kearin Alan In the book, you turn you talk about learning to apply situational leadership. Now, my understanding is that as you and can begin working together with all the leadership books that he wrote, you didn’t really realize what this was about. Can you expand on that?…
Doing Business In China | Kenneth Epstein
Episode transcript of: Doing Business In China | Kenneth Epstein Alan Olsen: Entrepreneurs that are wanting to do business in China, if they are bringing intellectual property, I’ve heard mixed stories here, what is your take on bringing your intellectual property into China? Kenneth Epstein: Well, its a challenge but it can be done, and…
Team Building | Joan LeMahieu
Episode Transcript of: Team Building | Joan LeMahieu Alan Welcome back. And with Joan LeMahieu, who here at currently the Director at City Beach. John, welcome to today’s show. Joan LeMahieu Thank you, Alan. It’s a pleasure to be here. Alan So John, can you tell me about yourself? Joan LeMahieu Well, that’s a wide…