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Our particular ability to remember … and forget is unique to all of us. Some of us never forget a face while being hopeless with names. Others have trouble with appointments or where we left our keys. I often have trouble finding the right word or forget the entire plot of a movie or book. (N Read More

From the Rothschild family to John Jacob Astor to Donald Trump, a great many fortunes have been made in real estate. Conversely, as was evidenced in 2008 with the deflation of the housing bubble, many fortunes have also been spectacularly lost. Fortunes aside, owning real estate is one of the be Read More

As the income tax filing deadline for the year approaches small business owners and their accountants are starting to feel the pressure. Receipts need to located, invoices entered, bank statements reconciled. Accountants’ offices are littered with shoeboxes and accordion folders while tax return Read More

While incorporation has many benefits for small business owners, it does introduce additional complexities that are not faced by registered businesses. Unincorporated business owners are essentially taxed on their net business income, which allows for more time to devote to tax planning and how t Read More

Sam Spade, the hard edged protagonist of The Maltese Falcon, is in some ways the quintessential small business owner. He is a private detective (or dick if you prefer) with an office, a partner, a secretary and a network that would make a social media climber swoon. As a small business owner he Read More

This story has all the ingredients of a great novel - drama, intrigue, the Chinese, hostile takeovers and a guy named Lonnie. It has shaken the world of miniature gaming, where excitement is usually imagined rather than real. And, although the details are murky, it is an excellent case study tha Read More

Modern portfolio theory assumes that we are rational investors and invest only in efficient and optimal portfolios that provide the maximum return for minimum risk. The truth (as posited by Behavioural Economists) is that we far from rational and are subject to a myriad of psychological influence Read More

Many small business owners (including myself) tend to focus on the more glamourous aspects of their business like sales and marketing and product/service development. As a result, accounting (poor misunderstood accounting) does not get the attention it deserve. In addition to the perception that Read More

You probably don’t have the brand of Oprah, nor the resources to start your very own television network, but what you can do, right now, is to create a brand network. A network that, similar to Oprah’s, will play your message, 24 hours a day. That is the opportunity available to you through social Read More

Finding the right partner, whether creative, life or business, can be a difficult endeavour. Very few of the people that we interact with on a regular basis, no matter how much we like them, are actually suitable partnership material. Anyone who has been in a relationship can attest to this. Read More