Entrepreneurship Advantage, Inc. has built a network of Strategic Partners with specific expertise and experience to help you with the all the ‘tactics’. Strategic Partners are subject matter experts who guest lecture for EA classes and provide one-on-one consulting to EA clients.


Partners

It is our commitment that we will leverage all of our resources to help our clients be successful. Whenever possible, we will select EA clients with specific areas of expertise and background to become EA Strategic Partners. Strategic Partners are subject matter experts who guest lecture for EA classes and provide one-on-one consulting to EA clients


(* indicates a client of EA.)


Marketing/Branding/PR

The Laidlaw Group, LLC
Integrated Communications Solutions
337 Summer Street, Boston, MA 02210
Telephone | 617-423-2801
Facsimile | 617-423-2802
Web | www.laidlawgroup.com

“Since the beginning, our strength has been to provide results–oriented, (integrated) marketing communications solutions. Based on an in-depth understanding of our clients’ business objectives, our integrated solutions are strategically sound, professionally executed and seamlessly deployed through traditional and interactive media.”


Legal (Legal Entity, Intellectual Property, Employment Agreements)

The Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center | Harvard University
122 Boylston Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
Telephone | 617.522.3003
Facsimile | 617.522.0715
Web | www.law.harvard.edu/academics/clinical/lsc/

Commercial Real Estate

Cummings Properties, LLC
200 West Cummings Park, Woburn, MA 01801
Telephone | 781-932-7038
Facsimile | 781-935-1990
Email | esa@cummings.com
Web | www.cummings.com

Cummings Properties provides first-class office, lab, R&D and warehouse space in increments of 200 to 200,000 square feet in 10 greater Boston communities. In-house leasing, design, construction, financing and property management teams enable one-stop shopping for virtually any commercial real estate need. Full-service lease rates start at just $6.95 per square foot. Cummings Property is committed to the small business community and has developed an attractive commercial leasing program for new businesses.

Accounting/Bookkeeping

Mary Doyle, CPA* – “Catalyst to Small Business Success”
Marybeth Doyle, CPA
Telephone | 781-363-2379
Email | mdoyle@doylecpa.com

Marybeth has been a Certified Public Accountant for over twelve years and has obtained experience both domestically and internationally in the public and private sectors from Deloitte Touche. Marybeth brings “Big four” accounting experience to the small business owner providing a wide range of services that include; setting up an accurate and reliable accounting system, maintaining bookkeeping records, budgeting, financial planning and analysis, compiling and reviewing financial statements, and tax preparation.

Financial Strategy and Business Planning

SMALL BIZ CFO* – "Hands on CFO and Controller Services"
PO Box 94, Hull, MA 02045
Telephone | 781-925-2949
Email | chura@smallbizcfo.com
Web | www.smallbizcfo.com

Priscilla Chura has an MBA and 25 years of senior management experience in finance, accounting, operations and administration in numerous service-based and technology industries. SMALL BIZ CFO provides expertise, training, ongoing support and the tools and diagnostics small businesses need to better evaluate their current financial position as well as plan for the future.

Tax

LJC Tax Services*
Linda J. Cooley, CPA, MST
1087 Main Street, West Wareham
Telephone | 508-295-6833

Linda Cooley is a Certified Public Accountant, and has a Masters Degree in Taxation from Northeastern University. Linda has nine years of experience in individual, corporate, and sales/use taxation and works with individual taxpayers and small businesses throughout the year. Linda projects estimated tax payments, prepares amended tax returns, and provides tax consulting to maximize client wealth by minimizing taxes. Linda advises clients on sales tax obligations for businesses selling tangible personal property, and she is a Notary Public. Linda is also a QuickBooks Certified Pro Advisor, helping tax clients set-up and use QuickBooks accounting software.

IT Strategy

Roland Brook Consulting*
85 Saint Margaret Street, Suite #100, Weymouth MA 02189
Telephone | 781.888.2424
Email | info@rolandbrooks.com
Web | www.rolandbrooks.com

Roland Brooks, has 17 years experience working with technology and has managed information systems and network services for several companies. Prior to starting his consulting firm, Brooks held leadership positions in the IT field: Manager and director of IT at Invensys PLC's Marcam division. Technical Services Manager with IBM's Global Services division and also managed IT for Baan, Wonderware and Boston Financial Group

Financial Coach

Calculations*
Brenda Hardiman, President CEO
Telephone | 617-786-1785)
Email | hardiman4b@yahoo.com

Brenda has been the President and owner of Calculations since 1985. She works with small growing business as well as individuals to develop sound cash management strategies. As a financial coach she not only provides bookkeeping services but also counsels her clients on debt elimination and strategies to improve credit scores in order to become ÒbankableÓ and gain access to capital as a small emerging business.

Entrepreneur/Professional Coach

Db Coaching
Telephone
| 978-373-5297
Email | dbcoaching@comcast.net

Doreen Banaszak is a professional coach and teacher who left a decade-long career as a retail banking and .com executive to follow her passion of working with people to maximize their personal and professional success. She has enjoyed working hundreds of hours with clients one-on-one and in the classroom, creating the lives & careers they really want.

She provides entrepreneurs with the guidance and thought processes required to: one, evaluate first, whether entrepreneurship is the "right next step", two, she helps the entrepreneur align their business objectives with their personal lives, and three, Doreen helps empower entrepreneurs with the tools to engage the entrepreneurial challenges in the start-up and growth phases of the business.


Website Development, Hosting and eCommerce

Bold Everything Interactive
251 Billings Rd, Quincy, MA 02170
Email | BeBold@boldeverything.com
Web | boldeverything.com

BoldEverything Interactive was launched in 2003 as an upstart design firm with a vision to create powerful uncompromising communications serving small-to-medium sized enterprises. BoldEverything specializes in helping you develop your branding essence, strategically applying the latest methods in web marketing, a pure, clean design sense, and technology. We offer a full range of web design and development services, as well as hosting and eCommerce solutions.

BoldEverything stresses a strategic approach to our work, and delivers upon the success of our work through partnering in the client’s success. Our ideas have vision. Our parternships achieve bold results.