Nina Kaufman
Esq.
NY, USNina Kaufman is a small business champion—not just your ordinary business attorney. Forbes Magazine calls her “One of the 25 Most Influential Women Tweeting about Entrepreneurship.” The U.S. Small Business Administration named her their regional Women in Business Champion of the Year for her creative approaches to educating and advocating for small businesses. In over 15 years in business, Kaufman has helped thousands of entrepreneurs in the generation of tens of millions of dollars by working diligently to help her clients save time, money and aggravation with business law issues. As a trusted thought leader, Kaufman reaches over 2 million readers each month on Entrepreneur.com.
A bookworm, a ham, and an avid writer—Nina is an educator at heart. With skills honed on the stand-up comedy stage, Nina is a sought-after professional speaker and has given seminars, workshops and presentations for numerous organizations in the New York area and beyond. Audiences welcome her humorous, practical way of handling the issues that cause deer-in-the-headlights paralysis: How can I scale my company so that I can stop being a slave to my business? How do we choose business partners who won’t [BLEEP] us? How can we train our clients to pay us? How can we protect our intellectual property? She has been a featured panelist on the subject of legal issues in social media at the BlogHer for Business and Women’s Congress annual conferences. She has also spoken at the New York Times Small Business Summit, the U.S. Small Business Administration, Levin Institute/Kauffman Foundation, PA Business Tech Conference, WorldWIT National Conference, NY XPO for Business, the NYC Startup Conference, National Association of Women Business Owners (New York City Chapter), and the NYC Bar Association.
A respected media resource, she has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, Crain’s NY, Forbes.com, SmallBusinessComputing.com, PINK magazine, The New York Law Journal, the American Bar Association Journal, and Entrepreneur magazine and has appeared on MSNBC and Fox Channel 5′s Good Day NY program.
A prolific writer, Nina has been pegged by Forbes.com as one of the 25 most influential women tweeting about entrepreneurship and one of the top 30 women entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter. She is a regular contributor to Entrepreneur magazine online, having authored their Business Law Advisor column and Making It Legal blog, in addition to currently serving as one of their Ask Entrepreneur experts. She publishes her own AskTheBusinessLawyer blog and bi-weekly ezine on getting small businesses to scale, All Systems Go. She serves as the Intellectual Property Law Expert for Forbes.com’s Small Business Exchange. Nina has contributed articles on a wide range of small business law issues to publications and media outlets including The E-Myth Insider, the New York Enterprise Report, MyVenturePad, Enterprising Woman, WomenandBiz.com, the American Bar Association’s GP/Solo Magazine, DivineCaroline, WorkHerWay, and VA Today Magazine.
From early in her career, Nina understood the importance of entrepreneurship as a vehicle for financial independence, freedom, and options—particularly for women business owners. Yet it took the demise of her own business after 12 years to reveal that just earning a good income wasn’t enough. That her company didn’t have the leverage to become a meaningful business asset. That while she should make back the money, she couldn’t get back the time. This inspired her to share the message of “why scaling your business is vital,” so that other service business owners could have the life, the impact, and the opportunities they’ve sought through business ownership.
Nina was an active Board member of the National Association of Women Business Owners-New York City Chapter (NAWBO-NYC) for many years. She is a long-standing member of the SEC Roughriders chapter of Toastmasters International. In addition to her interests in international travel, photography, and being a Mets fan (by marriage), she is an active member of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in New York City, where she has volunteered at their homeless shelter for more than a decade.
Nina Kaufman is a small business champion—not just your ordinary business attorney. Forbes Magazine calls her “One of the 25 Most Influential Women Tweeting about Entrepreneurship.” The U.S. Small Business Administration named her their regional Women in Business Champion of the Year for her creative approaches to educating and advocating for small businesses. In over 15 years in business, Kaufman has helped thousands of entrepreneurs in the generation of tens of millions of dollars by working diligently to help her clients save time, money and aggravation with business law issues. As a trusted thought leader, Kaufman reaches over 2 million readers each month on Entrepreneur.com.
A bookworm, a ham, and an avid writer—Nina is an educator at heart. With skills honed on the stand-up comedy stage, Nina is a sought-after professional speaker and has given seminars, workshops and presentations for numerous organizations in the New York area and beyond. Audiences welcome her humorous, practical way of handling the issues that cause deer-in-the-headlights paralysis: How can I scale my company so that I can stop being a slave to my business? How do we choose business partners who won’t [BLEEP] us? How can we train our clients to pay us? How can we protect our intellectual property? She has been a featured panelist on the subject of legal issues in social media at the BlogHer for Business and Women’s Congress annual conferences. She has also spoken at the New York Times Small Business Summit, the U.S. Small Business Administration, Levin Institute/Kauffman Foundation, PA Business Tech Conference, WorldWIT National Conference, NY XPO for Business, the NYC Startup Conference, National Association of Women Business Owners (New York City Chapter), and the NYC Bar Association.
A respected media resource, she has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, U.S. News & World Report, Crain’s NY, Forbes.com, SmallBusinessComputing.com, PINK magazine, The New York Law Journal, the American Bar Association Journal, and Entrepreneur magazine and has appeared on MSNBC and Fox Channel 5′s Good Day NY program.
A prolific writer, Nina has been pegged by Forbes.com as one of the 25 most influential women tweeting about entrepreneurship and one of the top 30 women entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter. She is a regular contributor to Entrepreneur magazine online, having authored their Business Law Advisor column and Making It Legal blog, in addition to currently serving as one of their Ask Entrepreneur experts. She publishes her own AskTheBusinessLawyer blog and bi-weekly ezine on getting small businesses to scale, All Systems Go. She serves as the Intellectual Property Law Expert for Forbes.com’s Small Business Exchange. Nina has contributed articles on a wide range of small business law issues to publications and media outlets including The E-Myth Insider, the New York Enterprise Report, MyVenturePad, Enterprising Woman, WomenandBiz.com, the American Bar Association’s GP/Solo Magazine, DivineCaroline, WorkHerWay, and VA Today Magazine.
From early in her career, Nina understood the importance of entrepreneurship as a vehicle for financial independence, freedom, and options—particularly for women business owners. Yet it took the demise of her own business after 12 years to reveal that just earning a good income wasn’t enough. That her company didn’t have the leverage to become a meaningful business asset. That while she should make back the money, she couldn’t get back the time. This inspired her to share the message of “why scaling your business is vital,” so that other service business owners could have the life, the impact, and the opportunities they’ve sought through business ownership.
Nina was an active Board member of the National Association of Women Business Owners-New York City Chapter (NAWBO-NYC) for many years. She is a long-standing member of the SEC Roughriders chapter of Toastmasters International. In addition to her interests in international travel, photography, and being a Mets fan (by marriage), she is an active member of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in New York City, where she has volunteered at their homeless shelter for more than a decade.
