Your company’s finances are the most quantified part of your business, so when it comes to due diligence as part of a potential sale, it’s almost always going to be a primary focus for the buyer. However, even without an impending sale, finance should be an aspect of your business that receives an appropriate amount
We’re going to be up-front with you here: it’s time to talk taxes. Don’t run away yet, unless you like leaving money on the table. When you’re building your business to sell, taxes are one of the areas that will have the largest impact on you. Strategic tax analysis can improve your margins and cash
People are the metaphorical lifeblood of any company. Perhaps it’s no coincidence then that the etymology of corporation is from the Latin word for body; like a real body, a company is only as healthy as its blood. Consider these examples: Young children need less blood in total but more blood per pound than full-grown
Handling legal aspects of your business doesn't need to feel as scary as this. Entrepreneurs are often portrayed as rule-breaking rebels who have a great new idea to introduce to the world. They may be singularly focused on how best to create and sell their product or service - regardless of what the law or
Imagine your company five to ten years down the road: what does it look like? Do you see a well-run organization operating smoothly and proactively? Or is it a more hectic, reactive environment where fires are constantly put out? Maybe you see yourself relaxing on a beach, now that you’ve sold the company? While the
The Internet is awash in posts looking back on 2018, but over here at Bommarito Consulting, we decided to give you something bigger, better, and different - a retrospective of the last four years, not just one! Long story short, we’ve been doing a lot of work behind the scenes for some blockbuster productions. Since
This term, I'm teaching Complex Systems 530 - Computer Modeling for Complex Systems at the University of Michigan Center for the Study of Complex Systems. In the spirit of open science, all course material will be available online at Github. You can browse the repository here: https://github.com/mjbommar/cscs-530-w2015. In the course, we're exploring why and
One of the more exciting and public projects we've been working on lately has finally come to light - our Supreme Court prediction project with Dan Katz and Josh Blackman. This project is exactly what you'd expect - a framework for predicting the Supreme Court, though meant to span the Court's entire history, unlike previous projects.
In our last post, we went over a range of options to perform approximate sentence matching in Python, an import task for many natural language processing and machine learning tasks. To begin, we defined terms like: tokens: a word, number, or other "discrete" unit of text. stems: words that have had their "inflected" pieces removed based on
Let's imagine you have a sentence of interest. You'd like to find all occurrences of this sentence within a corpus of text. How would you go about this? The most obvious answer is to look for exact matches of the sentence. You'd search through every sentence of your corpus, checking to see if every character of the
