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I have hundreds of small businesses as clients. These small businesses are struggling to meet payroll. While there are many exceptions, most of my clients are focused on two things, and two things only: Serving the needs of their existing customers and trying to chase down new ones. Avoid the Trap of Neglecting Important Functions of Your Small Business Unfortunately, this means many of my clients are often neglecting other important aspects of running a business: accounts

Last week, I wrote a blog article entitled How to Properly Dissolve a For-Profit Corporation (in New Mexico), which detailed how to dissolve an S-Corp or C-Corp, which is different from a limited liability company, or LLC. In many ways, the process to dissolve a LLC is very similar to what I described in the previous blog article. What's different, are the particulars required to actually get the

There are quite a few steps to dissolving a for-profit corporation There is a wealth of information on the Internet on how to form a company, but very little good information on how to dissolve a company. Given the number of requests I receive to dissolve a company, I thought it would be best to outline the appropriate steps. Remember that these steps are not comprehensive, may not apply to your specific situation, and are not to be considered

Within a few months, one of the world's most outlandish hacker attacks seems to almost be forgotten. It was just a few short months ago, when Sony faced a security breach that opened the eyes of people around the world. Their PlayStation Network (PSN) and their paid-for music-streaming service, Qriocity, had been hacked sometime between April 16 and April 19, 2011. It didn't take Sony long to figure out they'd been hacked, and immediately shut everything down

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So, here we are. Where to begin. It's been an interesting ride thus far. About 15 years as a COO & Corporate counsel to several successful startups and high-tech companies. My last entrepreneurial venture was Deep Web Technologies, a software company that produced "federated search" for libraries, government agencies and the Fortune 500. Working at a small company is difficult, demanding work. The primary goals are selling,