Serious challenges to the existing franchise business model are centered on labor issues. While labor issues have both political and practical considerations, they all are focused on the same pool of people and it’s that pool that I’d like to address from demographic and economic perspectives. As we know, that unemployment rate is quite low […]
The banking industry is increasing its conventional business lending activity. Since the recession they have focused on lower risk businesses, which translated into larger businesses with good track records. More recently they have been expanding their focus to smaller businesses with less experience. Concurrently, we have seen the rapid expansion of alternative lenders, led by […]