Last Friday the US Jobs report for January 2014 was published. The economy created 175,000 new jobs in the month of January. Economists expected this figure to be lower because of severe weather throughout the United States. If the figure was smaller, the typical cycle of the economy losing steam in the Spring would have …
Last week, we wrote a funding support letter for one of Capstone Corporate Funding, LLC’s clients who submitted a bid on an opportunity with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (“Port Authority”). The company submitted their bid along with a letter of funding support to prove to that they had sufficient access …
Last Friday there was a Wall Street Journal article entitled “Apps Are Wrecking Mom-and-Pop Pizza Shops.” The primary reason why independent pizza shops are losing business is their failure to develop methods of communicating with online and mobile technology. Essentially, with purchase order factoring and invoice factoring in the mix, the chain and franchise pizza …
I’ll Have a Large Digital Pie, Hold the Anchovies Read More »
A headline from the Money & Investing section of The Wall Street Journal on January 30, 2014 was “U.S. Banks Start to Ease Limits on Lending”. What a casual observer would glean from such a headline is that the banks are open for new Business Loans. The article starts out very hopeful by describing how …
Is your head spinning? Depending on what you are reading, the economy is now declining after retail sales have been calculated for the holiday season. Durable goods orders are down, new housing starts have slowed and car sales are expected to plummet. Emerging markets are taking a hit because the Federal Reserve (Fed) is pulling …
Everyday, depending on what consumers or employers are doing, the economy is either growing or contracting. There are a few Economic Indicators or news announcements that you might be interested in following to come to your own conclusions: The decision by the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) to either increase or decrease the Quantitative Easing (“QE”). Whether …
It is mid January which means you have settled in on your Goals for 2014 and are reviewing them twice daily. By now, you should be getting great ideas when you least expect them. From experience, when engaged in non-work-related activities, the best ideas come to one’s mind. It is important to write these ideas …
Executing Your Goals and the Importance of Human Capital Read More »
By now you should have committed your goals and business objectives to paper and are reviewing them twice daily. See the blog post dated December 20, 2013 for details. The next step for your business is to compute how much working capital you will need to meet your business goals. Pro forma projections are typically done …
Now is the time, as business slows down for the holidays, to evaluate what you have and have not accomplished in 2013 and why. In most cases if you failed to set goals or write them down you probably are not where you thought you would be right now. I have been a goal setter …
Are You Better Off Today Than You Were A Year Ago? Read More »
Community Banks are closing their doors because of the cost of compliance. Small Business pays with less access to credit. Unintended consequence of one size fits all regulation schemes. WSJ Headline “Tally of US Banks Sinks to Record Low” on December 3, 2013. There were many banks that failed as a result of the financial …
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