Entries Tagged Business Ownership

Everyone has the potential to be an industry leader. These leaders are the ones who transform the world — who disrupt their industry...

When Tim Peltzer told his wife, Becky, that he was interested in buying Jim’s Johns, a portable sanitation business based in Des...

Anyone in a family business knows that according to many statistics, the chance of the business surviving declines with each handoff to...

We watched the Mars rover landing back in February, and the significance of the accomplishment was palpable. We could feel the historical...

For small-business owners, there are obvious advantages to providing decent employee health benefits. Among those advantages: improved employee morale, potentially fewer sick...

When you’re in business for 65 years, there are reasons for success. As the third-generation owner of Sani-Hut Co. Inc., in Reno,...

Have you ever learned through the grapevine that one of your employees was looking around for another job? How did you react...

Anyone in a family business knows that according to many statistics, the chance of the business surviving declines with each handoff to...

It’s been 10 years since Shawn Hiscott and two business partners took ownership of Honey Huts Portables, a restroom company in Dartmouth,...

THE TEAM Based in New Franken, Wisconsin — located just northeast of Green Bay — Jim’s John’s is owned by Jim Jansen. He...

As a new year dawns, many small business owners are making plans, adjusting strategies, and resolving to be as productive and as...

Almost a decade ago, J.C. Pitts came on board full-time at Pitts Stop Porta Pottys, the company his father, Charles “Crab” Pitts,...

In 2016, when Cole Leister’s father and grandmother bought a 65-year-old septic/portable restroom company from the retiring owner in Salina, Kansas, something...

Question: As new business owners, what advice can you give regarding end-of-year planning? Answer: Last month we examined our suggested “year-end planning” for December. The...