Our theme for this quarter’s event is Entrepreneurship: Nuts and Bolts. Many here ARE entrepreneurs – or WANT to be entrepreneurs – or perhaps are recovering entrepreneurs. It’s a special breed of person. Entrepreneurs are, by nature, passionate, visionary and optimistic. The event’s speakers have much experience working with entrepreneurs.
John Pompay is the owner of The POMPAY GROUP, which specializes in helping nonprofits and small businesses grow.
Elena Volkova is founder and partner in the law group ROIZIN and VOLKOVA, She is a lawyer specializing in small business and family and estate law.
Jasmine Takanikos is a marketing and branding specialist, with her own business, a consulting group. She also teaches at Parsons School of Design. Follow her on Twitter: @jasjtakanikos
How does divorce change your tax strategy?
Going through divorce is bad enough, the last thing you want to think about is your taxes. But after a divorce, you may be facing a very different tax situation, and it helps to determine your strategy well ahead of April 15. How does divorce change your tax strategy? Knowing the tax implications of child support and alimony, for example,…
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Cloud Computing Can Ease the Pain of Natural Disasters
Maura Griffin, CEO of Blue Spark Capital Advisors in New York, a recently launched firm with about $30 million under management, lost power for a week at home and in her office, both in Manhattan. “Luckily we had a disaster contingency plan so I could take my laptop and find a temporary office and keep working,” she says. Working in…
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What to Do Financially When You Are Planning a Big Life Change
The Wall Street Journal interviewed Maura on financial moves to make this year if you have a big life event in “Are You Planning a Big Life Change This Year?” Getting married, buying a house, having a baby, sending a child to college, and retiring all have repercussions on your financial life, as well as your emotional life. Most of…
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Spring 2013 Wine & Finance: Affordable Indulgences
Our quarterly Wine & Finance event’s theme is Affordable Indulgences. As many good savers know, to have a well-lived life, you need a balance of saving for the future and some decadence of enjoying the present. Some friends of Blue Spark Capital Advisors have focused their businesses on those affordable luxuries that make life worth living: wine and perfume. In the spirit…
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