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Nov 22, 2020
9 Warning Signs You’re a Hub-and-Spoke Owner
If you were to draw a picture that visually represents your role in your business, what would it look like? Are you at the…
Nov 8, 2020
Where to Start, When Your Growth Stops
Why would two companies in the same industry, with the same financial performance, command vastly different valuations? The answer often comes down to how…
Aug 2, 2020
A Growing Online Threat For Private Companies: 6 Steps You Need to Consider Right Now
This topic is a bit of a departure from our normal advice. But we’ve run into this at such an increasingly alarming rate that…
Jun 28, 2020
Valuation, Discount Rates and Management Actions (Steps to Increase Company Valuations)
A company’s intrinsic valuation is based on its projected future cash flows and the perceived risk of the company achieving these future cash flows.…
May 3, 2020
Stress Test Your Business Before It Is Too Late
(10 Simple Steps To Emerging On The Other Side) In every recession we hear calls from the Fed for banks to run stress tests…
Apr 26, 2020
Critical Cash Management Steps In A Crisis
Millions of business owners are going through an unprecedented, challenging and uncertain time. While we may yearn to go back to the pre-Covid world,…
Mar 22, 2020
What You Need To Do This Week To Help Your Business Weather the Coronavirus
The last couple of weeks have unfolded in a way that was likely not one of the downside scenarios even the most prudent business…
Mar 7, 2020
5 Ways To Get Your Business To Run Without You
Some owners focus on growing their profits, while others are obsessed with sales goals. Have you ever considered making it your primary goal to…
Feb 15, 2020
Taking the Pulse of Your Company
A blood pressure test for your business When was the last time you had your blood pressure tested? Taking your blood pressure is one…
Oct 20, 2019
Spend Time at Work? Or With Family?
I was talking recently with a group of friends about the struggles of maintaining a work/life balance. These are all hard-working married guys in…
Oct 6, 2019
You-Proofing Your Business
Making your business less dependent on you has a number of benefits: you can scale your company more quickly if you’re not acting as…
Sep 21, 2019
4 Ways To Protect Your Turf
Warren Buffett famously invests in businesses that have what he calls a protective “moat” around them – one that inoculates them from competition and…