Archive for May, 2012

Five Bucks Before Five Billion

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

One Hundred Billion Dollars just rolls off the tongue. With the pending IPO of Facebook, people throw out millions and billions like its no big deal. We read and hear about it in entrepreneurial magazines, in the elevator, in the movies and of course when we hear politicians refer to the public debt of our [...]

Tears in Her Chair Keep Her Moving Forward

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

My wife is an Optometrist (an eye doctor) and has a practice she started at the height of the economic doom and gloom in October 2008.  Since she began, she has dealt with uncertainty in the economy, hiring problems, surprises by competition and the day to day chaos of running a small business. As her [...]