Entrepreneurial Thoughts on Coronavirus The news around the Coronavirus continues to evolve rapidly. I cannot help but apply some entrepreneurial thoughts on Coronavirus. Likely much as the virus is mutating. While our nation and our planet continue to put forth maximum effort into fighting the virus itself, our economic concerns only continue to grow. While…

Tie Between Economics & Coronavirus The Tie between Economics & Coronavirus. The Federal and state governments (within the Northeast) fail to effectively deal with the two headed monster created by Coronavirus and the corresponding disease, COVID-19. At the federal level, it has become increasingly obvious that our elected leaders, A: Have no idea the pain…

Small Business Economic Impact of Coronavirus The small business economic impact of Coronavirus is starting to demonstrate its full potential impact now. As everyone has been scrambling to flatten the health curve of this virus, the economic curve has grown steep and long.  Having gone unattended now for over a month, this is where the…

The need to mitigate the economic risk of the Coronavirus is finally generating conversation. It is becoming unavoidable that we need to fight the war against Coronavirus and recession. As unemployment soars and small businesses across the United States begin to fail the conversation is getting louder and the ideas to restart the economy are…

Easter is upon us. Do your best to enjoy this day and spend it with family and friends. Regardless of your religious views, enjoy the slowdown (if it can get any slower) and reflect on the positive aspects of your life. If you can’t solely do only that read this post, reopening the small business…

The future of small business is uncertain. The economic browbeating and indecisiveness due to the Coronavirus pandemic continues.  The clarity and correct choices of how to correctly navigate proper and ethical business choices in this fluid and ever-changing historical period is paradoxical and tough. While it doesn’t appear to have been done on purpose, the…

Bureaucracy is killing business. Specifically killing small business. The delay in properly funding the various fiscal policy small business stimulus programs simply shows that our leaders in Washington either don’t understand the current struggles of Main street America or they simply don’t care about small business. At this point, it is difficult to decide which…

Small business stimulus is a disaster. With no money released yet, lawmakers fail to pass additional stimulus or funding for small business.  The need is incredible, the consequences severe, and yet Washington is unable to get things done. What seems like a bi-partisan win has turned into yet another bout of Republicans and Democrats publicly…

Economic Stimulus a Pipe Dream Small business, government-backed funding continues to be an economic stimulus pipe dream. As we enter day 26 of the New Jersey quarantine directive, small businesses are making zero money and the government clearly does not understand the need at which fiscal policy needs to be mobilized. Could you imagine if…

Have you filed your Payroll Protection Program Application (PPP)? Expect to wait. Currently the PPP is underfunded and basically unavailable. How are you planning to deal with the increasingly long waiting period we all expect to experience?   The payroll protection program continues to be another bureaucratic disaster filled with a lot of paperwork and few…

Does it appear there are two different Coronavirus Strategies taking place? There is a growing disconnect between the Federal government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic versus the state responses? There are still 9 states that have not issued a shelter-in-place style directive. Reviewing the other 41, there are states that issued this order weeks later than…