Small business owners need to track all of their business numbers in Excel, and this video introduces the most commonly used functions, Sum and Average.  This is video #4 (of a total of 6) that I made on behalf of a regional micro lending organization, Accion Texas. If you’ve never learned to use Excel before, [&hellip

Excel is so useful for small businesses that I’m posting a series of short instructional videos I made in collaboration with Accion Texas, a regional micro lending organization.  The idea is to get entrepreneurs to start tracking their sales, customers, revenues, and profits in a more useful format than a sheet of paper or the back [&hellip

Below is the second in a series of 6 videos introducing the idea of using Excel to track your small business information. This series was created to support the educational mission of Accion Texas, a regional micro lending organization, but I hope it has value to others starting out with their own business who may not [&hellip

Lately I’ve been working with Accion Texas, a regional micro lender organization, to produce educational videos for entrepreneurs.  Below is an introduction to the first series of six videos, which covers the first steps in using Excel, such as how to open up a workbook, how to begin to format a worksheet, and how to program [&hellip

I’ve written passionately about the stultifying, influence-peddling, and depressing results of local governments engaging in ‘Economic Development.’ But the thing I like best in the world** is a smart, contrarian argument that shows how I’ve not considered all sides of an issue. Like this TEDTalk for example. We often easily dismiss the government’s role in [&hellip