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Ben Hwang - Insight Community Expert

Make Your First Dollar First

Sometimes, budding entrepreneurs don’t understand that making money is a long term process. It doesn’t just happen overnight, and you don’t suddenly make millions without blood, sweat, and sometimes tears.

You have to take care of business, operations, and sometimes there are just costs out there that you’ll have to pay due to the [...]

Eight Steps to Starting Your Business

There are several things you usually have to know to get your business started. What’s interesting is that while you could have the great idea, there’s some busy work that you have to do and these steps are to get you ready for that busy work.

Go to the state corporations website. Figure [...]

Business is Business

One of the things that a lot of people cannot ever do is separate out their personal life from their business.  For some reason, the lines gray, and overlap.  Which is fine.  If you’re seeking to just run a small store, and never have anything else that you’re seeking from this, then bring on [...]

Differences Between Purchase Orders and Contracts

I was reading a local article where a website developer was making a big fuss about the differences in detail in a purchase order and a contract. And I thought, wait a second here, a purchase order is a contract. They’re called one-off contracts.

Here is the difference. Contracts in general are legal [...]

Copyright and Why Large Corporations Are Reactive

I recently read an article about how ebooks in Japan are pirated and how publishers want Apple Japan to set up a proactive division to seek out pirated materials:

Good luck with that, publishers. Let me introduce you to something called corporate counsel. Any legal person would laugh that out of the ballpark for even [...]