(This column originally appeared in the Inquirer) Sales of businesses are picking up, according to the quarterly Insight Report from BizBuySell, an online marketplace of businesses for sale.…
Gene MarksFebruary 12, 2025
(This column originally appeared in The Guardian) Of all the businesses started just 10 years ago, only one-third are still in existence. That’s according to data from the…
Gene MarksDecember 8, 2024
(This column originally appeared in The Guardian) Some 91% of the 1,290 business owners recently surveyed by the employee scheduling software maker Homebase said that they were happy…
Gene MarksJuly 14, 2024
(This column originally appeared in The Guardian) Hating on office software is one of modern life’s favorite pastimes. Expenses, time off, hiring – every…
Gene MarksMay 12, 2024
(This column originally appeared in Entrepreneur) The good news is that, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, women-owned employer firms account for more than…
Gene MarksDecember 2, 2023
(This column originally appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer) Even as commercial lending rates have more than doubled in the last year, interest rates earned on…
Gene MarksJanuary 25, 2023
(This post originally appeared on Philly.com) So where’s the best place to spend your company’s technology budget next year? (more…)
Gene MarksDecember 9, 2019
(This post originally appeared on Inc.) Last week, accounting software maker FreshBooks announced that it was receiving an undisclosed "strategic investment" from JPMorgan Chase. The investment…
Gene MarksAugust 16, 2019
(This post originally appeared on Inc.) Twitter uses said this. The President tweeted that. Kanye tweet something else. Twitter's growing, Twitter's failing. Twitter is toxic. Twitter…
Gene MarksMay 2, 2019