ABOUT THE COMPANY. Ronin Software publishes useful, timely,
and authoritative business information with a tax, legal and
financial emphasis. We author and publish software programs
with business-oriented content, as well as authoring (by Michael
D. Jenkins) a million-selling series of small business self-help
books for each of the 50 states, which were published by Oasis
Press until 1998, and republished in 1999 as a single book with
state tax and legal information for all 50 states and D.C. chapter
on CD-ROM, entitled Starting and Operating a Business in the
U.S., through Running 'R' Media Group. The print versions of
the books have been out of print for several years, but we have
fully updated and revised the entire series constantly since
July, 2005, in e-book/software formats, now published under the
Ronin Software imprint. We began publishing all of the e-books
as Kindle books in 2011 (all are now in
2015 or 2016 editions). However, Amazon arbitrarily removed 18 state
editions from sale in 2013, because the federal information in them
is the same as in the other state editions -- an absurd decision,
but they are the 800-pound gorilla, so we decided to stop updating
those 18 state editions after 2013, since we can no longer publish
them in Kindle format.
We also publish the highly sophisticated (and addictive)
stock market and corporate financial simulations called
Wall Street Raider and
Speculator: The Stock Market Simulation.
We began publishing the Wall Street Raider program (through our
former book publisher, Oasis Press/PSI Research) way back in 1986,
and have continued to develop and enhance it ever since, as a
Windows program in recent years. It has become somewhat of a
"cult favorite" over the years, with registered (paid) users in
101 countries, ranging from Greenland to Paraguay to Angola to the
Sultanate of Brunei to Malta.
"Speculator" is a recent (2016) spin-off from Wall Street
Raider, and is focused on trading any of up to 1500+ stocks,
or bonds (including convertibles), options, or commodity
futures, as a small or "middle-class" investor with only
$100,000 to start with -- unlike Raider, in which you start
off rich, with up to a billion dollars, and use that wealth
to take over and manage companies (and try to increase their
stock price), building your corporate empire like a Carl
Icahn or Warren Buffett.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR. The author of Wall
Street Raider and Small Business Advisor is Michael Jenkins,
is a graduate of Louisiana State University and the Harvard
Law School. His background includes several years practicing
as an economics and financial consultant in D.C. and L.A. with
Economics Research Associates; then as a CPA in Los Angeles and
Newport Beach with Peat, Marwick and Mitchell and later as a
tax attorney in San Francisco with the large law firm of Cooley,
Godward, Castro, Huddleson and Tatum. He went on to become a
senior tax partner for several years in the large Bay Area CPA
firm of Kimbell, McKenna and von Kaschnitz, in Alameda,
California, prior to practicing solo as an attorney/CPA in his
own firm in Oakland, California.
Along the way, he published his first book, Starting and Operating
a Business in California, during a sabbatical in 1980, initially just
as an adjunct to his law practice, but when the California book and similar
editions for Texas and Florida became highly successful, he worked in
partnership with the CPA firm of Ernst & Young to develop similar book
editions for each of the 50 states and D.C., which in the aggregate sold
over 1.2 million copies in the 1980s and 1990s, as noted above.
In 2010, Mr. Jenkins retired from formal membership in the California Bar,
after ceasing active CPA practice several years earlier. He continues to
keep the book series up to date and develops and publishes the three business
software programs, Small Business Advisor
(legal, tax), Wall Street Raider (a corporate
financial game and stock market simulation), and Speculator:
The Stock Market Simulation (a stock, bonds, options and futures
trading game).
An incorrigible bachelor, Mr. Jenkins now resides in a scenic
area of Southern Utah, near Zion and Bryce Canyons and has engaged
regularly in adrenalin-secreting, slightly insane activities
such as sea kayaking, white-water rafting, mountain biking
and the occasional parachute jump or paragliding misadventure,
for relaxation, terror, and inspiration. However, he has drawn
the line and refuses to engage in certain riskier activities,
such as base-jumping, alligator wrestling, or slandering the
Koran.
(Oh -- In case you're wondering about our company name,
"Ronin", it's an old Japanese term used to
describe feudal Samurai warriors whose masters had been
killed, and who thus became renegades or mercenaries. We
thought the name aptly described our company, when we began
self-publishing our software as shareware back in 1991. Not
that we are that mercenary, of course....)
Ronin Software relocated in 1998 to the beautiful red
rock canyon country of Southern Utah. ("Utah -- It's
a great place to hide out.")
Click on the e-mail link below to contact us by e-mail.
Or click here to see the owner (the good guy in the white hat), hard at work....(7/98,
in the Taos Box Canyon of the Rio Grande)
For a few mind-altering pictures of some of our local Utah/Arizona
landscape (plus a dash of Tahiti, Iceland, theFaroe Islands, Shetlands,
and Glasgow), click on any of the following image links below:
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- Are we still in Utah, Dorothy? (Almost...It's Arizona) (3/99)
- Swirly View, at "The Wave" (Arizona) (3/99) (No hallucinogens required)
- This here's mine... all mine....
- Uh, what happened to the horses?
- OK... So I go behind a bush 2 minutes, and my bike's gone...? (Snow Canyon, Ivins, Utah)
- Trail through idyllic Echo Park (Colorado, 2006)
- Steamboat Rock, Green River, in Echo Park (2006)
- Waist deep in the Big Muddy (Moorea, Tahiti, 2001)
- The far north of Iceland (Seydisfjordhur), in summer
- Braving the elements, at the Guilfoss, Iceland
- A church on the bustling (Nordic) Faroe Island of Sandoy
- My Viking boat, on Unst, in the Shetlands (not
really -- I took a ferry across the Atlantic)
- World War memorial, Glasgow, Scotland
- On the trail, with passenger, near Moab
- Is this Mars? Beam us up, Scotty!
- The good ol' days....Taking a beer break between volleyball matches (Cancun, Mexico, 1987)
- Cajun-style birthday (Louisiana, 2017) -- a "boudin birthday cake"
