I attended the Seattle Economics Council’s December lunch at Ivars on the waterfront. I must say, these folks organize one of the best speaker series in town IMHO. This month they hosted Mark Costello, a lender relations specialist from the local SBA office. Mark’s talk was my first introduction to the SBA Office of Advocacy – a [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Whither Small Business?
Posted in Along the Way on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Structure Lab coming to Seattle Jan 27th
Posted in Along the Way on December 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wondering how to structure your social enterprise? Wonder what an L3C is and should you be for profit, nonprofit, a hybrid and if so which should own which? Spend a day noodling over such issues with a national tour organized by Criterion Ventures. I worked with Joy Anderson and Jackie Vanderbrug while at Good Capital [...]
Noprofit Financial Benchmarks
Posted in Along the Way, Nonprofit Practice on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a board member I’m always interested in what best practices are. We’ve had some discussions on one board that has two issues in my mind: one, how much we should keep in reserves to balance prudent management with not seeming too flush for more funding; two, being thoughtful about balancing perceived high overhead expenses [...]
