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Get Ready to Conquer Your Company’s Estate Planning

Get Ready to Conquer Your Company’s Estate Planning

By Nina Kaufman, Esq.

From childhood, we’re taught to begin at the beginning. A-B-C-, 1-2-3. “Start at the beginning,” we’re told when we rush in breathless to tell an exciting story. Things have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Even the Bible begins with, “In the beginning . . . .” It makes beginning with the end in mind rather, well, counterintuitive. But that’s how entrepreneurs need to think about their business. Not just “what will we do?” and “to whom will we sell?”, although that’s certainly important. Rather, the threshold question is “what’s in this business for me?” Its corollary: “what do I want to get out of it?” Without asking yourself these questions, all you have done is work yourself into a job with the most unforgiving, stingy taskmaster possible: yourself. When you begin with the end in mind, you have a vision for your future. Like those “eulogy exercises” in personal development seminars. If someone were giving your eulogy, what would you want them to be able to say about you? So take that exercise…

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Nina Kaufman

Flying solo doesn’t have to mean going it alone.

I’m Nina Kaufman.

I know first-hand that running a knowledge-based service business has unique challenges. It’s so much easier when you have an advocate in your corner. Over the past 25 years, I’ve worked with thousands of New York business professionals who want a legal advisor to guide and support them as they navigate the business world.

With wide-ranging experience as a business attorney, strategist, and media authority, I bring the added power of a business lens to the legal issues my clients are facing.

And because I’ve been a business owner myself, I’ve lived through the soaring highs and devastating lows – like when my first law firm failed. So I understand what’s involved to serve great clients, detect business risks early and build a true legacy.

I can’t get those 12 years back. That’s why I have made it my mission to ensure that business professionals like you can become wise and discerning leaders, build a solid business, and live your best life.