by Lea Strickland | May 8, 2025 | Business Articles, Funding, Government Contracting, Government Funding Compliance
On May 1, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a significant change in foreign awards for research funding via Guide Notice NOT-OD-25-104. The agency will replace them with a new structure to improve transparency, strengthen oversight, and enhance...
by Lea Strickland | Aug 28, 2016 | Concept, Credibility, Crowdfunding, Funding, Visibility
Tough Lessons: You Can’t Make Them … or Stop Them Parents know it and live it. Consultants and other advisors have to learn it. You can’t force anyone to make a wise choice or the best decisions. You can’t stop companies from making imperfect pitches to...
by Lea Strickland | Aug 25, 2016 | Business Articles, Crowdfunding, Funding
Crowdfunding – Category Determines Taxation Crowdfunding, like campaigns you see on sites like Kickstarter or GoFundMe, can essentially be categorized into three types of transactions: Equity investment – the funds received purchase ownership interest. Gift –...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Management, Competitiveness, Entrepreneur, Execution, Funding, Leadership, Marketing, Sales and Business Development, Non-Profit, Small Business, Start-up
The Chaos of Unbounded Vision Disregarding Boundaries Over the years, there have been several instances in which people have been doing business with a cheerful and/or blatant disregard for boundaries. These individuals cheerfully and often recklessly bound forward...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Growth, Business Management, C.O.R.E. Business System, Commercialization, Competitiveness, Concept, Entrepreneur, Funding, Leadership, Marketing, Sales and Business Development, Non-Profit, Small Business, Small Business, Start-up, Strategy, Viability
To know whether or not you have a viable business concept, you have to comprehensively define (on paper) your thoughts, ideas, and vision. You also need to gather information related to those ideas: market size, competitors, pricing, and so on. With that information...
by Lea Strickland | Jul 31, 2014 | Business Articles, Business Management, Funding, Leadership, Strategy
Not having children of my own, I don’t have first hand experience as a parent, but I have observed certain things about raising children: It takes more time than you anticipated. No amount of planning can account for all the variables of things that can...
