The book, website, blog and forum (collectively “platform”) is about small business owners and my goal is to create a community of learning and support. Small business ownership has particular problems and challenges and that is the only focus of this place. For all intents and purposes, small business is defined as 1-200 employees. Ownership is defined as more than 5% ownership in a business (however structured). This platform is also appropriate for people who intend to be small business owners, or are just intellectually interested in small business ownership.
This is not a government or political advocacy platform, but government is a legitimate topic as it pertains to small business management. In other words, it is not a place to advocate government policies (i.e. it is not a politics website) but a place to discuss how a business can proactively or reactively respond to changes in government policy or regulation.
This is not a legal or financial advice platform either. You have to pay professionals for that. It is OK to discuss legal and financial advisors and how to manage them. I’m not going to permit free advertising unless the provider is “generally known”, like Vanguard is generally known as a major mutual fund. As the website is intended to be transnational in nature, I would prefer people to use general descriptions instead like: use a major bank instead of a local bank. Or “any major insurance company will do”.
