November 28, 2012
Business Buyers Create Jobs
The November 12, 2012 Wall Street Journal had a special report section titled, “Why Washington Has It Wrong.” The lead article, by Duke University professor…
November 26, 2012
Speed not Complication
Recently this memo described the complexity of a cranberry marsh and urged you to not make your business more complicated than it needs to be.…
November 26, 2012
Getting Duped on an Acquisition-Common or Uncommon?
One of the things every business buyer fears is it really “what you see is what you get.” While 99% of business sellers are honest…
November 24, 2012
Act as if you could Sell your Business Today; you Could meet your Best Buyer Tomorrow
90% of businesses are not ready to sell for maximum price (Wall Street Journal and other sources). Even if they are off by 100% that…
November 22, 2012
Don’t Overcomplicate Things
I recently took a tour of the Lake Nokomis Cranberry Marsh (it's on the same lake as our family cabin). The operations manager told me…
November 19, 2012
Run Like a Jamaica
The 2012 London Olympics saw the tiny country of Jamaica (population of 2.7 million) dominate the sprint events. They took 10 of 14 possible medals,…
November 2, 2012
Bad Customer Service
My kids gave me an atomic clock from LaCrosse Technologies for my birthday last year. It started “eating” batteries, going through a battery every two…
October 31, 2012
There’s Never a Shortage of Ideas, Even Bad Ones
I opened an official looking letter the other day from “Corporate Records Service” that referenced my corporation’s annual minutes on the envelope. I was immediately…
October 30, 2012
The Waiting Game: Business, the Election and the Economy
I finally got around to reading a Puget Sound Business Journal column from a couple weeks ago that was titled: Small business in ‘maintenance mode’…
