Your business credit rating is highly important. It can determine how effective your company runs in the present, and even start to affect the long-term, big picture plans of the future. In the end, many businesses fail all the time in what are frankly silly, preventable ways. One of these sure-fire ways to flop is […]
4 Building Blocks to a Successful Restaurant Startup
The restaurant business is fiercely competitive and without the proper course of action, your new restaurant could easily become just be another statistic. Some people have a rather naive idea of the restaurant business and still have a “build it and they’ll come” mentality. But times have changed and restaurants that succeed these days have […]
How Can Businesses Get Behind the Paris Agreement?
Scientists are predicting a rise in global CO2 levels this year for the first time since 2013 posing the question of whether or not actions are being taken to combat climate change. Despite the Paris Agreement and targets being in place for emission reduction by 2020, a rise in CO2 levels is expected this year. […]
How Does the Alternative Finance Industry in the US Compare with Europe?
It is fair to say that each geographical market is growing at its own unique pace, depending on attitudes, trends and the adoption of technology. In this post we will look at the alternative finance markets in the United States, Europe and the UK, and ask why the latter two are lagging behind the former. […]
Blockchain and Its Potentially Regulated Future
Blockchain is a relatively new phenomenon in the financial world, but has the potential to be very important to U.S. business owners, who should be aware of the system behind the new world of online payments. Blockchain is a term which refers to a shared or distributed digital database (ledger) containing a number of records […]