Book Club #21: Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top, by Bo Burlingham

Feb 14, 2020 | Book Club

We’ve run into Bo Burlingham here on Book Club before. We’ve reviewed his groundbreaking Small Giants book and he was seen as a major source for Dan Andrews’ Before the Exit as well. Burlingham characterizes this as an “end-up” book as opposed to a “start-up” book....

5 Signs You are Burning Out (and 10 Strategies to Fix It!)

Feb 7, 2020 | Build A Better Business

There’s a fair amount of content available these days on burnout. Far from our future of flying cars that The Jetsons promised us, we’re tapping out email responses while “making a visit” to the one place where most of us have to go at least once a day. Alas, burnout...

The 8 Components of the Sellability Score

Jan 31, 2020 | Must Knows About Business Sales, Prep Your Business For Sale

We’ve reviewed John Warrilow’s book Built to Sell in our book club series and many of our case studies are taken from accounts shared on his Built to Sell podcast. In many of those interviews John goes over the same ground with business owners as they share their...

4 Financial Ratios to Better Understand Your Business

Jan 24, 2020 | Must Knows About Business Sales

Some business owners confine their working knowledge of finances to what’s in the bank today vs. what needs to be paid today. Others will give a quick glance at monthly financial statements their bookkeepers have given them. But the most savvy business owners take...

Book Club #20: The Lifestyle Business Owner, by Aaron Muller

Jan 17, 2020 | Book Club

The subtitle of Aaron Muller’s book is “How to Buy a Business, Grow Your Profits, and Make it Run Without You.” While entrepreneurship has perhaps never been more in the public consciousness, the phrase “lifestyle business” is still not commonly known in the general...