Ashley Rath

A few years ago, I helped someone I knew set up a very small online shop. It was basically just a few products and a simple website. We spent an evening figuring out how to separate personal spending from business expenses. Most of the time went into understanding what needed to be registered and what […]

I remember sitting at a kitchen table a few years ago, helping a friend sort through a stack of forms. He wanted to start a small landscaping business. We spent more time figuring out which forms mattered than actually talking about the business itself. It wasn’t difficult, but it wasn’t obvious either. That’s usually how

A while back, I helped a neighbour figure out how to invoice his first few clients. He had been doing small repair jobs on weekends and decided to take it more seriously. We sat at his dining table, looking at a basic spreadsheet and trying to decide if he needed a business name or not.