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…
September 3, 2011
Vacations-Who Needs Them?
It must be that time of year as on August 15, 2011 I was quoted in Portfolio.com in an article about taking vacations and on…
July 28, 2011
Not just in Small Business
The July 28, 2011 Wall Street Journal had a front page article on Groupon’s pre-IPO accounting tricks. It seems they are presenting an income statement…
July 18, 2011
WSJ says sales of [very] small firms are up
In the July 14, 2011 Wall Street Journal, Sarah Needleman writes that sales of small businesses, as per bizbuysell.com, are up for the third straight…
July 7, 2011
SBA Loans are a Great Option
In my Roundtable Discussion last week Mark Costello, the regional director of SBA lending, was the topic presenter. It was interesting to hear some of…
June 18, 2011
Know What to Say and Not Say
Boeing executives should have, "Kept their mouths shut. I'm sure their labor lawyers were banging their heads." Charles Craver, labor law expert at George Washington…
