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State Of The (Health Care) Union Health care insurance costs are a major headache for America's self-employed. Like their larger brethren, small firms are coping with a general wave of medical inflation due to an aging population, advances in technology, and soaring prescription drug costs. In addition, small business entrepreneurs have problems...

Merchant concern about online credit card fraud and chargebacks is rising at a significant rate. According to the 2001 Online Fraud Report, conducted by Mindwave Research, it revealed that, "41% of merchants say the issue of online credit card fraud is 'very serious' to their business." Chargeback, the word that Internet merchants...

As President of CFO Partner, I have spent most of myprofessional career working as a CFO, Interim CFO, Corporate Turnaround Consultant andChapter 11 Bankruptcy Workout Consultant for small to mid-sized corporations. If I havegleaned one "bulls-eye" from my target of executive level experiences it is that companies lack informationand insightinto...

If you are just starting your company, the idea of equity value is probably not on your radar screen. If you have owned your company for 10+ years, it has probably occurred to you that you might want to sell your company and do some world travel and work on that golf game. In either case, if you are thinking about how to build equity value in your IT...