Todd Taskey

An entrepreneurial business owner, Todd Taskey has more than 25 years of finance and investing experience. Prior to founding Potomac Business Capital, Todd was a founding investor, board member or management team member to five other business ventures. Armed with the insight from his past successes and failures — and ongoing conversations with growing business owners and entrepreneurs — Todd provides market strategy and finance advice via his Wrong Question blog and national public speaking tours.
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So, the SBA can’t afford to make these small business loans, the banks do not want to make the loans, it is not a solution for the business owner’s problem or a solution to the recession.  So, why develop and promote the ARC program?
I want to understand the business owner who had success and then lost it, or most of it...
It does not matter if they called to notify me or not, what matters is the advertising message I now carry forward...For better or worse.
Classic herd mentality encouraged by the business media, you are more creative than that.
I wish someone would shake her rather than praise her, it the end it is a better form of love, which brings us to the concept of dream insurance.


Today, however, conspicuous consumption is out and conscientious consumption (buying to be heard) is in, and it will impact small business in a massive way.
Entrepreneurs see business lessons every where, even from a topless guy at a music festival.
Finding working capital is getting easier now, why you need capital should be your focus.
What is the secret to have your client talk about your company to others?
The most difficult part of the process is to fill a room with qualified prospects.  It is now longer about how many but who...
A question has the ability to steer the direction of a project, committee, company, industry or even a country.
Nothing is more frustrating than having a prominent link to your website that nobody clicks on.  Skeptical, skimming web users ignore links they perceive as low value and move on.   So how can you consistently drive traffic and links to your website without spending every hour of every day on it?  

Your new employee will almost certainly help you into the board room, corner office or lunch with the CEO.


Social media is a real game-changer when it comes to generating leads, supporting the sales cycle, enhancing search engine optimization (SEO) and promoting brand reputation.
The danger in reading Howard Kurtz article is to confine this problem to the newspaper business.  The same mistake ruined Polaroid and Kodak's film developing business, put travel agencies out of business, unemployed TV repair men, altered the book selling business, etc.
Pfizer will generate billions from an additional $1 a day from dog lovers.  What will your best customers pay $1 a day for...?
Better Question: Why do politicians and academics think they know business?

David Gergen is a very accomplished individual serving four of our presidents very successfully.  He is now a professor and political analyst for CNN. Very accomplished indeed, but a review of his resume does not show a time when he has ever lost sleep over making payroll.  He has never had to consider the impact of government regulation on his business, never brought a product to market or worried about a discrimination suit from a fired employee.