How to Acquire a Company Acquiring a company is a major decision and can be a market multiplier for expanding your business. Acquisitions can be a smart and fast way to build your business and expand into different products, services, or geographic areas. Businesses need to take caution when merging or acquiring another company. The … Read more
Doing Business in Texas: Intellectual Property Intellectual property is an integral part of many businesses and certainly for startups and franchisors in Texas. Texas developed great protections for businesses and their intellectual property. These protections include trademark and service mark registration, unfair competition laws, among other protective laws such as prosecution for trade secret violations. … Read more
When to Franchise Your Business Making the decision to franchise your business is very big and should not be taken lightly. A franchise is a business model that allows an owner to expand and sell the business model to other entrepreneurs, explained in more detail in our article: What is a Franchise. There are four basic … Read more
How to Value Your Business Valuing a company is one of the inevitable tasks a business owner will make in their life. Whether valuing a company you wish to invest in, or testing your own concept for a startup, or even valuing your company to take on investors, it is an invaluable skill. There are … Read more
Doing Business in Texas: Taxation Texas has been consistently ranked as one of the best states for businesses, no doubt in large part to our low tax rates and business friendly tax policies. In this installment of our Doing Business in Texas series we cover the topic of Taxation in Texas. There are a variety … Read more
Our latest video, Wealth and Asset Protection for Small Business Owners, features Bill Lussenheide, President of Lussenheide Capital Management, Inc. Check out his website at InvestmentWarrior.com https://youtu.be/Fxgsh14buEY
Do I Need Terms and Conditions for My Website? A familiar question from internet and web based startups is whether they truly need a terms and conditions on their website. Will it protect me? Can I use stock T&C’s? If I don’t have one could I lose my personal assets? These are all very important … Read more
How to Start a Business in a Week Starting a business does not take much, in most instances it can take only one week to get your business started quickly and legally. This article focuses only on the legal aspects of creating a company, there are other great resources to get you to the point … Read more
Doing Business in Texas: Business Entities Sole Proprietorship The sole proprietorship is certainly the easiest and most unencumbered of business models. It is not a registered business entity but merely an individual doing business in their personal capacity. There is no state registration, state filings, nor any obligation to pay the annual state Franchise Tax … Read more
Doing Business in Texas: Intro Part 2 In our next installment of Doing Business in Texas we will discuss Texas’ excellent infrastructure and education that have helped position Texas as one of the best places to do business. Texas’ infrastructure is composed of world class airports, highways, ports, and energy systems. The state’s central location … Read more
