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With more than 40 years of experience working with family businesses – plus his own – Joseph Astrachan has vast expertise in helping families navigate the unique environment that’s created when work and family intertwine. […]
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Mike Michalowicz has definitely lived the ups and downs of business. By his 35th birthday, he founded and sold two multimillion-dollar companies. Confident he had identified the formula for success, he became a small-business angel […]
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If you want to know what other CEOs will be doing in the years ahead, look at what Craig Larson is doing now. “He’s such a futuristic person; he thinks way ahead of the game, […]
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Is the time right to work on your transition and your next generation of ownership? Over the holidays, many families find themselves talking about the future. “When I retire.” “When you take over.” “You can […]
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A bank doesn’t reach 136 years old without learning to evolve, transition and plan for the future. So it’s probably not surprising that the Baker family of The First National Bank in Sioux Falls became […]
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They’ve been there, done that, and now are sharing their experiences. Three family businesses will share strategies and pitfalls around succession planning at an upcoming webinar through the Prairie Family Business Association. It will be […]
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The way Dave and Ryan Austad see it, the game of golf has stuck. “In 2020, everyone golfed because it was safe. After a dicey March, April and May, the sport just saw an explosion,” […]
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Sioux Falls, South Dakota – November 16, 2021. Prairie Family Business Association, an outreach center of the Beacom School of Business at the University of South Dakota, presented the Boyd Hopkins Sr. Excellence in Family […]
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This year has brought changes in tax laws, which are resulting in higher taxes in many instances. Estate planning and business succession attorney Andrew J. Knutson of Thompson Law and Adam Sweet, who leads Eide […]
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At an age when most people would be retiring, W. Fredrick and Ferne Edney became business owners. It was 1951, and Fredrick had spent a career bringing wind power to rural homes that previously didn’t […]
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