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Do You Need Debt to Start a Business? SBA Loans and How to Tell Good Debt From Bad Introduction When you start a business and your own savings fall short, should you borrow money to get going anyway? Or is it smarter to stay debt-free and build slowly? A friend of mine asked me exactly […]
Hi, I’m Suzuki from Eco Drive. Today I want to talk about cars — specifically, where the limits of a Prius actually are. The Prius usually comes up in conversations about gas mileage, or as the car that made hybrids mainstream. Whether it actually holds up over the long haul, and how many miles you […]
Table Rock Beach: One of Laguna Beach’s Most Scenic Hidden Coves Orange County, just south of Los Angeles, is packed with stunning beaches. Laguna Beach is one of the most popular of the bunch. This time we’re heading to Table Rock Beach, a secluded cove that’s easy to miss from Coast Highway. We’ll cover what […]
Hi everyone — I’m Suzuki from Eco Drive. Today I’m picking up the third of the three challenges I ran into starting a business here: employee retention — how hard it is to keep good people. Last time, in Part 1: How Often Do People Change Jobs? 9 in 10 U.S. Workers Have, I wrote […]
San Francisco Sightseeing: Alcatraz Island, the Prison Once Called Inescapable Alcatraz Island is a small island sitting in the blue water of San Francisco Bay. For most people, the name brings one image to mind: the prison nobody could escape from. But the story of this island goes far beyond its years as a penitentiary, […]
Part 1: How Often Do People Change Jobs in the U.S.? Introduction Hi everyone — I’m Suzuki from Eco Drive. Today’s theme is the difficulties of starting a business here that I learned by actually doing it, and this is the third one: how hard it is to keep employees. I’ve now been running my […]
San Jose’s Most Mysterious Landmark: The Winchester Mystery House If you’re looking for one of the most popular things to do in San Jose, the Winchester Mystery House belongs at the top of the list. At first glance it looks like a theme park attraction — something close to the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. But […]