Category Archives: Start-ups

Building a Strong Tax Foundation in Life Sciences Start-Up Companies

BDO Tech – The Newsletter of the BDO Technology & Life Sciences Practice  Winter 2013 By Chris Bard, Matthew Dyment, Maureen McGetrick, Marla Miller and Robert C. Pedersen With all of the business challenges life sciences startup companies are faced … Continue reading

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Working From Home Debate

Everyone is buzzing about working from home now because of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision to ban working from home. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_162-57571011/yahoo-takes-big-step-back-by-ending-work-at-home I want to focus this discussion on why some companies are successful and why some companies fail with working … Continue reading

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Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work

Why is the failure rate for small businesses so high?  The five-year survival rate for services and manufacturing businesses is about 48%.   The solution to this problem was outlined in a book by Michael E. Gerber who wrote a bestseller … Continue reading

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Thinking outside the box

By Keith Barfied, CPA, CITP, BMSS Founding Shareholder No start-up ever became a huge success because they played it safe and ran their business how everyone else has done it. We certainly didn’t invent innovation at Barfield, Murphy, Shank and … Continue reading

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Technology success story

We’ve talked before about why Birmingham is such a great place for technology business. We attribute a lot of the technology success in the city to Innovation Depot, a small business incubator that is often home to technology start-ups. One … Continue reading

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Entrepreneurs know the importance of a good accountant

Congratulations to all the entrepreneurs who have recently been recognized by the Birmingham Business Journal. One of our favorite tech entrepreneurs, Robin Hunt, CEO and President of ThinkData Solutions, Inc. was featured last week. Share this:

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An urgent opportunity for you to get things done

By Keith Barfield, Founding Shareholder, CPA, CITP I have been around new technology companies long enough now to see the hectic pace that new entrepreneurs maintain.  The hours are long and not enough employees are available to properly do most … Continue reading

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Taxes don’t have to be the death of your technology business

By Karen Poist, BMSS CPA Let’s say you’re a start-up technology company that sells, installs and monitors security systems. Does this mean you offer a tangible product or a service? Can it be both? Do you sell in other states? … Continue reading

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How technology can help self-financed business accounting

By Keith Barfield, Founding Shareholder, CPA, CITP So you’ve started your own technology business. You’re familiar with all the latest trends, tools and software because you’re hoping to sell that knowledge to your potential clients. I know you get it, … Continue reading

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