“See you in the Umbra!”

If you have a few minutes to kill, try doing this: Log onto Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Travelocity, Kayak, Priceline, or any of these related search engines. Search for a 1-night stay…

How To Protect Your Intellectual Property

Protect your ideas. Protect your investment. Intellectual Property (IP): a work or invention that is the result of creativity, such as a manuscript or a design, to which one has…

What is a foreign trust?

The Tax Implications of a Foreign Trust The issue of foreign trusts comes up in estate planning during a number of different situations. For example, if you name a successor…

What You Can Learn From the Estate Planning Mistakes of…

There is much to be learned from the mistakes of others and the celebrity world abounds with cautionary tales when it comes to estate planning. Even with all the financial…

Is Your Small Business Being Audited? Stay Calm and Read…

Audits can happen to any business. Small businesses are no exception. The IRS can conduct an audit on your business when your tax filing contains questionable deductions, your business is…

What are Initial Coin Offerings?

How to Raise Seed Capital as a Crypto Start-up An Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is the means by which cryptocurrency start-ups raise their seed capital. The process is unregulated and…

“If You Had to Pick Just One Place….”

Ready for a tough question? Here it is: which one place on all of Earth symbolizes all of human life? Think hard.  I bet you’re not thinking of what I’m…

Understanding Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)

Grow your business through mergers & acquisitions So, why Merge or Acquire? All mergers and acquisitions have a common goal: to create synergy that helps their business values grow and…

What do I do about my professional corporation or partnership…

If you are a doctor, lawyer, accountant, or other licensed professional with your own business practice in California, you are certainly aware of the many rules and regulations you must…

“Indian Mythology & Mother’s Day”

So, I’ve learned that one of the advantages of having kids is finally being able to rely on them. My first experience with this new phenomenon came yesterday when I came…