December 15, 2011
Podcast – Integrity Lessons from Corporate M&A
Listen to a lesson about how big companies try to manipulate their accounting and why buyers of small and mid-size businesses are skeptical. Integrity lessones…
December 13, 2011
Podcast – Tips to Sell Your Business for More than you Thought you Could
This is a Podcast in my series titled, Two Minutes or Less. In two minutes or less I cover specific issues and topics on exit…
December 5, 2011
American Airlines and Small Business
American Airlines declares bankruptcy because of their overwhelming debt load. How many airlines haven't declared bankruptcy? Are there any major ones, besides Southwest, that haven't?…
November 15, 2011
Growth, Buyouts and Cash
I'm in the middle of two internal buyouts. In both cases the companies are in a growth mode, 20-25% over the last year and projecting…
November 11, 2011
Small Business can Learn from Big Business
The October 7, 2011 Wall Street Journal's Marketplace section's headline was: "Apple's Game Plan: Avoiding Culture Shock" and dealt with Apple's decade-long succession plan for the late Steve Jobs.…
November 5, 2011
What you See his What you Get – The 2011-15 economy
October 11, 201 The cover story of the September 21, 2011 Wall Street Journal was titled, "Home Forecast Calls for Pain." The main point made in the…
October 19, 2011
Watch Your Vendor Concentration
A former client took me to lunch recently and shared that his top manufacturer, accounting for 60% of his revenues, had dropped him as their…
September 17, 2011
Three Tips on Preparing for Sale
At my Rotary Club meeting recently Tim Gibbons, co-founder and president of PharmacyOneSource, spoke about the evolution of the company and its sale to a…
