Starting a Business? Don’t Tap Your 401(k)
Many of our clients started with 5 or 6 employees and have grown to over a hundred and are now worth millions of dollars. I assure you they “tapped” their 401 (k) plans and every other source of cash they could get their hands on, but believe it or not they really don’t like taking unnecessary risk or certainly risk they can’t control.
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