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Lisa Larson-Kelley believes strong team relationships are the foundation for meaningful collaboration and bold ideas. As CEO and founder of Quantious, a tech-focused marketing agency, she brings her remote team together every nine months for exciting retreats.Most recently, employees traded their home offices for the sunny beaches of Puerto Rico for team building, where they snorkeled off a catamaran, kayaked through a bioluminescent bay, and bonded in poolside cabanas.Larson-Kelley made it all happen by using her Capital One Venture X Business card to offset travel costs — turning routine business expenses into strategic investments in culture, connection, and creativity. Rick…

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Investor Advisory Group is asking for examples of critical audit matters or key audit matters that can be used for analysis.The PCAOB’s Office of the Investor Advocate released an advisory last week asking the public to submit examples to the Investor Advisory Group by June 30. The nominations can come from public company issuers (both management and boards), auditors, financial analysts and investors. They’re looking for the most decision useful CAM or KAM contained in public company audit reports included in the 2024 Form 10-Ks and Form 20-Fs. The PCAOB began requiring the disclosure of…

When longtime friends Shelton Steele and Joe Balcken started thinking about opening an urban cabin campground that matched the outdoor personality of Asheville, North Carolina, the timing may not have seemed ideal.”Our business incubation period was Covid, so there couldn’t have been a more unpredictable period in life,” Steele told Business Insider.Still, they moved forward with their vision of building 16 tiny A-frame cabins and opened Wrong Way River Lodge & Cabins in 2022. As it turned out, a post-COVID climate marked by an increase in outdoor recreation worked in their favor, and “we came out of the gates beating…

The regional sports networks owned by Main Street Sports Group are winning over streaming subscribers.FanDuel Sports Network, the recently rebranded portfolio of regional channels, said Monday its paid subscribers doubled to nearly 650,000 over a period of eight weeks. The company expects to reach one million direct-to-consumer customers by the end of the year.The update comes months after Main Street Sports Group emerged from bankruptcy protection, having significantly trimmed its debt load and scaled back on the number of teams in its portfolio after reworking its agreements with lenders, teams and leagues.There are 15 owned and operated networks under the…

More than 11,400 Internal Revenue Service employees have either received termination notices as probationary employees or voluntarily resigned, representing an 11% reduction to the agency’s workforce, according to a report released Monday by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. In February, the IRS had around 103,000 employees, but that number has dropped by about 11% due to a series of executive orders from President Trump since his inauguration in January and the downsizing instigated by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, also known as the U.S. DOGE Service. Specifically, 7,315 probationary employees received termination notices, according to the report,…

As Wall Street has poured money into technology budgets and become major players in patents and research, it’s also become a destination for technologists to work — rivaling even Silicon Valley.This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Melissa Goldman, a partner and tech leader at Goldman Sachs. She started her career 30 years ago at Goldman Sachs as an analyst and worked her way to managing director before departing for the rival firm JPMorgan Chase, where she helped lead the corporate tech division as a chief information officer.Goldman joined Google in 2022 as a vice president and global…

The Ford display is seen at the New York International Auto Show on April 16, 2025.Danielle DeVries | CNBCDETROIT — Ford Motor beat Wall Street’s first-quarter expectations, but suspended its 2025 financial guidance amid an expected $2.5 billion impact this year from President Donald Trump’s tariffs.The Detroit automaker said it expects to offset $1 billion of those costs through remediation actions as well as volume and pricing expectations for a total impact of $1.5 billion in 2025.Ford cited “near-term risks, especially the potential for industrywide supply chain disruption impacting production” and the potential for future or increased tariffs in the U.S.,…

The entrance of the Skechers retail store at the Barton Creek Square Mall on July 16, 2024 in Austin, Texas.Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesFootwear giant Skechers has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm 3G Capital for $63 per share, ending its nearly three-decade run as a public company, the retailer announced Monday.The price 3G Capital agreed to pay represents a 30% premium to Skechers’ current valuation on the public markets, which is in line with similar takeover deals. Shares of Skechers closed up more than 24% Monday after the transaction was announced.”With a proven track-record, Skechers is entering…

Enjoy complimentary access to top ideas and insights — selected by our editors. Tax season usually marks the busiest time of the year for IRS professionals, but for the 30,000 staff who have accepted buyouts or been laid off by the agency this year, the calendar has  been painfully clear. Higher-ups have not been immune to the upheaval, with four IRS commissioners and multiple unit chiefs departing. Michael Faulkender, former deputy secretary of the Treasury, was announced as the newest acting commissioner on April 18 — replacing a predecessor who had been in place for less than a week.”The fight against…

Being your own boss sounds great—until you realize the boss never clocks out.Young people have been flocking to small business ownership, which has driven up demand for search funds, a targeted form of private equity where one or two entrepreneurs search for a small business to run. The trend is only expected to continue as tariff uncertainty casts a long cloud over industries ranging from private equity to consulting to technology.To help understand the pros and cons of running a small business, Business Insider spoke to Chad Howard, an entrepreneur who quit his corporate job to start Halftime Rentals, a…