March 31, 2021
Business – It’s Not Rocket Science
I have never worked with a business buyer who didn’t want to grow (aka scale) the business they buy. I don’t know if I’ve ever…
March 27, 2021
Texas Energy Screw-up and Small Business Impairments
The headlines about the Texas freeze and energy disaster caught my attention. I read two long articles, one in the Seattle Times and the other…
March 24, 2021
A Job Disguised as a Business
We’re working on a client grow-by-acquisition project and have found the industry is not only very fragmented, with a lot of small companies, but too…
March 17, 2021
When the Corporate World Attacks You
By Jessica Martinka Horror stories abound! Both parents working from home, kids taking virtual classes, and bandwidths stretched thin, both internet and personal. The virtual…
March 10, 2021
Tech and Our Lives
At the end of 2020 The Wall Street Journal had a feature article, co-authored by their four technology and related columnists, titled, “The Tech That…
March 5, 2021
Getting Your Deal Done
Originally published on ibainc.com blog in February 202! I was honored to have IBA team members Gregory Kovsky and Curt Maier contribute a chapter to…
March 3, 2021
When the Union Wins
The teacher’s unions won, at least in the Puget Sound area; most districts are not returning to the classroom in any material way. Based on…
March 3, 2021
It’s Bad, but Not All is Bad
Covid has been wicked to a lot of people. It’s been a business boom for some. It’s changed everybody’s life in some way. And we’ve…
March 3, 2021
An NFL PR Machine
Don’t you wish you could have a PR machine like Russell Wilson? For the last couple of weeks he’s been a regular story in the…
February 24, 2021
When Football, Covid, Protocols, and Systems Collide
The NFL is down to the final four teams. On at least one of the games this past weekend the announcers talked about how successful…
