
Topic: Why most businesses are never profitable and what to do about it
- GAAP accounting is flawed. Not in the logic, but in that it doesn’t work with the natural behavior of the entrepreneur
- Parkinson’s Law – the law that dictates all human behavior, and how it can be your best aly.
- Why you need to take your profit first. Always.
- The power of “small plates” (multiple accounts)
- Why you can’t go about profit by yourself – team up with peers and/or financial pros

Then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies. Among other innovative strategies, Mike created the “Profit First Formula”, a way for businesses to ensure profitability from their very next deposit forward.
Mike is now running his third million dollar venture, is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal; is the former MSNBC business make-over expert; is a popular keynote speaker on innovative entrepreneurial topics; and is the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, which BusinessWeek deemed “the entrepreneur’s cult classic.”


















