Category Archives: What I Learned This Week

What Employers Need to Know About Claiming the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit

This article is courtesy of the Alameda County SBDC:   Many small employers that pay at least half of the premiums for employee health insurance coverage may be eligible for the small business health care tax credit. This credit can enable small businesses and small tax-exempt organizations to offer health insurance coverage for the first…

What Entrepreneurs and Start-Ups Need to Know About Insurance

I wanted to share information about this upcoming workshop: Insurance products provide coverage for a variety of exposures faced by businesses today. However, insurance is a probability and numbers game. Join John Tallarida in this essential seminar for business owners and the attorneys who represent them, as Mr. Tallarida brings his years of experience in…

Cautious Optimism

This week I had an opportunity to attend the East Bay/San Francisco Economic Forecast Conference. The Bay Area Council Economic Institute teamed with the UCLA Anderson Forecast to pull back the curtains and gaze into the future. They presented forecasts for the Nation, State, and Bay Area.  The presenters were cautiously optimistic that the economy would…

It is not what you know but who you know!

Networking Organizations – Bay Area  It is not what you know but who you know!  Here are links to some local organizations where you can network your way to success: Combined Alameda County Chamber Calendar Airport Area Business Association Alameda Chamber of Commerce Albany Chamber of Commerce The-Bay-Area-Entrepreneur-Small-Business-Meet-Up/ Bay-Area-Entrepreneurs-Network/ BlackBusinessNetwork-Richmond-CA/ BNI San Francisco Bay TheBoxSF-San-Francisco-Networking-Entrepreneur-Event-Space/…