Month: March 2018

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Questions for Your Future Junior Business Partner

Questions for Your Future Junior Business Partner

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Below are some questions to get your discussion rolling with your future long-term junior partner. You will, of course, come up with many other questions related to your specific situation.

These are questions that might be helpful if you are the selling partner (that is, you currently have ownership in the business – even if you plan to sell fifty percent or more). These questions might be most helpful for those considering entering into a private practice healthcare partnership – since that’s where I’ve had the most experience – but I’ve tried to phrase most of them so they could apply to other businesses as well. …

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Questions for Your Future Senior Business Partner

Questions for Your Future Senior Business Partner

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Below are some questions to get your discussion rolling with your future long-term senior business partner. You will, of course, come up with many more that are unique to your particular situation.

These are questions that might be useful to you if you are the incoming partner (that is, you do not currently have ownership in the business – even if you plan to buy fifty percent or more). These questions might be most helpful for those considering entering into a private practice healthcare partnership, but I’ve tried to phrase most of them so they could apply to other businesses as well. …

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What to Look For in your Professional Role Models

What to Look For in your Professional Role Models

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If you are lucky enough to find someone out there who is doing what you want to do in your own professional life – congrats! This discovery will be incredibly helpful for you! But before you go dashing out the door to try to imitate someone else or handing them your credit card in exchange for their secret recipe, you need to look critically at their business models and their lives. …

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The Magic of the Non-Budget

The Magic of the Non-Budget

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Let me say right off the bat that budgets can be great. Many people find success in their personal financial lives through meticulous budgeting. There are also many different types and varieties of budgeting strategies out there, so there may very well be one that will work amazingly well for your unique financial needs. None of this is intended to talk you out of budgeting if it is something that works for you.

However, I’m finding that not all people who are excited about personal finance are equally excited about traditional budgeting – myself and my husband included. …

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What Does it Cost to Take a Family to Europe?

What Does it Cost to Take a Family to Europe?

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The Iberian Blitz

When my brother moved to Spain to teach English, my family – having never been to Spain – naturally decided we had to go visit.  Soon some other family members decided to join, and then some good friends did too. Our plans exploded into a giant complex mess of twelve people’s ideas and expectations, which after several hundred email exchanges somehow resulted in airplane tickets and lodging reservations and then, against all odds, culminated in a trip that was an absolute blast. …

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