Scaling is the new buzzword. How do you scale or grow your business? Is it an influx of money that is required? The answer to that question is almost always ...

Keeping top performers, commonly referred to as retention, should be the maniacal objective of every small business owner. All other measures of success depend on this first rule. Keeping top ...

There’s a scene from the wonderfully awful movie Joe Versus the Volcano. The movie starts in a dingy office and overheard in the background is a manager repeating over and ...

I’ve started following a new rule to hiring in business. If you have a contact within my organization, I will hire you in spite of that relationship, not because of ...

There are two kinds of capital necessary to successfully launch a startup – Social and Financial. Financial capital gets all the press, but it may be social capital that is ...

An early decision every entrepreneur must make is whether to go it alone or to take on partners. In The Founder’s Dilemma, Noam Wasserman suggests the decision actually comes down ...

One of the delights growing up in South Carolina is the sense of community shared in so many small towns. Each of these towns has its own Main Street lined ...