Category Archives: Business bankruptcy

Bankruptcy Alphabet: B Is For Business

Letter B

Business is my bankruptcy “B’ word.?? Business debt of the individual filing bankruptcy is dischargeable just as other personal debt. In Silicon Valley, the very innovation and risk taking that makes the Valley vibrant brings with it the risks of not making it in the marketplace.? Bankruptcy can be the “do over” vehicle freeing manpower…

Collections: Boogie Man For Businesses Too

boogie man

“Being sent to collections” is a boogie man for businesses as well as for individuals, I learned this week. I was counseling a small business with lots of vendor debt.? We were looking for a strategy that could keep them in business.? When I suggested that management sort their payables into vendors they needed and…

Self Employed, But Not By Choice

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One of the thorniest problems I’m confronting in the Great Recession is what advice to offer to those who are self employed only because there is no option. In the past year, I’ve seen half a dozen folks whose small business isn’t really making it, and in better times, I would have urged them to…

Incorporation slip up stands to benefit business owner

Usually I’m bewailing the lack of attention with which bankruptcy clients handled the incorporation of an ongoing business.? In variably, the vendor accounts are still in the name of the proprietor, the stock may not have been issued, and it’s unclear whether there was an explicit transfer of the assets to the corporation. But last…