Columns

Boston Beer Company founder Jim Koch, the maker of Samuel Adams beer, helps small businesses in the food, beverage and hospitality industries grow their businesses through microloans and one-on-one coaching.

As an entrepreneur who built three businesses from scratch, GoDaddy.com's Bob Parsons says he learned his most valuable lessons from ‘practical experience, not from any business school.’ Here’s a crash course on best practices for growing your business from the creator of the web domain superstore.

For restaurant owners, food trends matter. Depending on the type of dining establishment you run, you’re going to lose customers if you’re not serving what customers want—or think they want.

The competition between lending startups is heating up with both Lending Club and OnDeck completing IPOs last December. Peer-to-peer lender SoFi is also in the pipeline, with CEO Mike Cagney confirming to FOXBusiness.com that the company looks to IPO in the near future.

In an interview with FOXBusiness.com, Uber investor and Eniac Ventures partner Nihal Mehta chatted about the changing landscape of mobile technology and explained how he plans to identify the next Uber.

Sofinnova Ventures, a firm that specializes in biotech and software investing, has closed a $500 million fund. This is the ninth fund for the firm, since it was founded in 1974.

Internships should be designed to promote a mutual exchange of information and ideas. The insight gained into a company by a twenty-something (or younger) is invaluable for improving not only how work gets done but also how your company can attract—and be attractive to—tomorrow’s future leaders.

AppDynamics, the mobile application intelligence company, has raised $120 million in equity  and debt financing at greater than a billion-dollar valuation, it was announced Tuesday.

Tax law changes almost on a daily basis. As a self-employed individual you are required to keep up with those changes. It’s difficult to do, but not keeping up can be costly.

We all experience complications that weren't part of the plan. Some are predictable; others come out of nowhere. Aside from lying awake at night stressing out over all the things that can go wrong, there are strategies we can learn from the lead-up to the big game that will help us face our own extreme conditions

Accounting for business income and expenses has become streamlined.

We’re more than half way through 2014: Where does your business stand in terms of taxes?

With all the required paperwork and changing regulations, it can be easy for businesses to find themselves in tax trouble.

Did you know that you can write off corporate losses only to the extent of basis in the corporation?

Businesses can make tax deductible donations to bona fide nonprofit organizations. But you may be surprised to learn how it is deducted on your tax return.

Business owners should strive to take advantage of every possible deduction in order to minimize their tax liability.

One of the most common questions I hear from self-employed individuals begins with the phrase, “Can I write off…?” I’m often surprised by what follows the question.

Every couple of years utterances of the implementation of a flat tax emerge. In fact, in a tax seminar during the early 1990s, a well-revered speaker made one of those mark-my-words predictions that the flat tax would be operational within the next few years.

If you are launching a new business, you may want to consider forming a separate entity such as a corporation or LLC, to protect your personal financial life.

If you are self-employed your chances of being audited are three times higher than the average wage earning taxpayer.