Are you a small business owner who'd planned to sell in the next couple of years — before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived? Are you now concerned about how the rest of 2020 will affect the business' value?
Those questions piqued Barbara Taylor's curiosity. A mergers and acquisitions broker and business valuation specialist, Taylor co-founded Bentonville firm Allan Taylor & Co. in 2007.
"One adviser friend said he thought nobody was thinking about selling their business right now," she said. "I disagreed."
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Zoom Just Gave Free Users Frightening News…And Other Small Business Tech News
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 18: Adena Friedman, chief executive officer of Nasdaq Inc., welcomes Eric Yuan, ... [+] founder and chief executive officer of Zoom Video Communications Inc before the Nasdaq opening bell ceremony on April 18, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images)
Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?
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Hmm…or maybe Zoom could ask for the same info from their free users and give them the same encryption as their paid users? You may disagree, but this seems more like a marketing tactic than a compliance concern and for that reason I'm beginning to become just a little more wary of Zoom. Don't get me wrong – it's a great platform.
Varner: Creative energy – that's business | Local Business | pantagraph.com
The "new" College of Business building is now 15 years old. It seems like yesterday. The stock market is telling us that business will come roaring back. We hope that will help our fine arts neighbors on campus get their long-planned and well-deserved new building. Both disciplines are in the business of creativity. I want to look at the process, show a relationship to our current crisis, and then some supporting numbers.
A project manager, or entrepreneur, makes a business plan balancing potential profit and risk. Now a little fun with my own: I am part of the Department of Finance, Insurance and Law. You don't want any of my sort making your business decisions. There is an insurance ad saying, "We have seen a thing or two!" Those in insurance sure have, and have a keen sense of what can go wrong. Too much of that and you will never get anywhere.
To turn your art into a business, you need to learn to manage your time - StarTribune.com
Q: How does one successfully transition from artisan to entrepreneur, and what things should be outsourced in order to do so?
A: Many entrepreneurs start out with a passion for the art and the craft they are doing. But eventually, it becomes a passion for the business they have created and the process of managing it.
You can evolve into a business owner while keeping the passion and still loving the core product. Your mind-set just needs to evolve from trying to design and create products to creating and expanding an organization.
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22-Year-Old Business Owner On Opening A Restaurant During A Pandemic : NPR
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to chef and small-business co-owner Gerald Addison about the challenges of starting a business during a pandemic.
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Starting a business at the best of times can be stressful, expensive and filled with many setbacks. But what happens when one of those setbacks is a global pandemic? Taj Sohal is the owner of Glassey in Washington, D.C. It's an Indian American fusion restaurant specializing in India's famous street food. And she joins us now. Welcome.
Canadian Mask E-Commerce Bien Aller Found Opportunity Amid A Business Freeze
Jordan Owen and Sean Tassé launched their e-commerce only nine days after agreeing to start a ... [+] business together.
Marie Labrosse a master's student in English Literature at McGill University contributed to this story.
For some organizations, Covid-19 has taken a severe toll on business. For others, the pandemic is the reason that they exist. Brothers Jordan and Mark Owen, along with Sean Tassé founded Bien Aller, a re-usable mask e-commerce to combat the shortage of available medical equipment and support Canadian seamstresses affected by recent layoffs.
Pandemic puts whack on business plans for new companies | Business | lacrossetribune.com
Samantha Fiscus built the leash rack at her Duncan's Dog Daycare for 45 leashes, but she has only five regular clients due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Hand sanitizer and fencing greet clients at Duncan's Dog Daycare in Madison. Samantha Fiscus, with her 15-year-old schnauzer, Duncan, quit her job in February and took a second mortgage on her house to open the business.
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There's ample parking and easy access from Lien Road. The indoor space has plenty of room for dogs to romp on play structures and snooze on cots to classical music. The fenced-in outdoor area includes a shade tree.
Poll: Independents dissatisfied with Trump, Cotton; Biden competitive in Arkansas - Talk Business
President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., are struggling with independent voters in Arkansas less than five months before Election Day.
A new survey from Talk Business & Politics-Hendrix College shows that Trump and Cotton have negative job approval ratings with voters, with independents giving them low marks by a double-digit margin. The poll was conducted Tuesday, June 9 and Wednesday, June 10, of 869 statewide likely voters and has a margin of error of +/-3.3%.
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