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Why Due Diligence Matters
Earlier this year, Todd Edwin Rood was sentenced in federal court for lying about the assets and...
Case Study #18: Coming Back from Failure
Shelley Rogers has been a leader in a field that's now very trendy. But many years ago no one even...
Know Your Broker: Jeff Crooks
In this occasional series, we will share profiles of our team here at Apex so you can get to know...
Book Club #17: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People was the book that kickstarted the personal...
Five Sobering Questions to Ask Yourself Before Buying a Business
In everything we do, often the sheer excitement of an event, experience or a purchase pushes out...
Case Study #17: When an Earnout Wins for Everyone
In 2004 Dan Green was a mortgage officer. He started blogging about important trends in the...
Three Key Questions When Considering the Leap to Business Ownership
There are so many questions you might ask yourself when thinking about becoming a business owner....
Book Club #16: Built to Sell, by John Warrilow
We've already spoken about a John Warrilow book before, namely The Automatic Customer, which is...
Lessons from the latest PR Disaster at Facebook
In all likelihood, you've already heard about the far-reaching Cambridge Analytica/Facebook...
Case Study #16: Doubling Down on the Value of You
In 2011 Dan Bradbury was building a company called Business Growth Systems that taught marketing...
Considerations When Forming a Business with Multiple Partners
In a previous article we discussed things to ponder when considering a business partnership. In...
Delegation Isn’t Sufficient: You Have to Trust, As Well
Delegation. It’s one of the surest and most necessary components of the growth of any business,...
Book Club #15: Extreme Ownership: How US Navy Seals Lead and Win, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Many business books have the same formula: Identify a problem Show your unique way of solving the...
Equity or Profit Sharing? What’s the Right Way to Reward Employees?
In today’s competitive marketplace, it’s important to consider key differentiators for your...
Case Study #15: Beware of Shares and Options
In 1992 Doug Chapiewsky started CenterPoint Solutions, Inc. He'd spent time at Bell Labs helping...
Know Your Broker: Valerie Vaughn
In this occasional series, we will share profiles of our team here at Apex so you can get to know...
Book Club #14: The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox
Ask most business school students and they will often nod their heads in recognition when you...
Know Your Broker: Ron Kleier
In this occasional series, we will share profiles of our team here at Apex so you can get to know...
Case Study #14: Even When You’re Early, You Can Sell
In 2006 when Claude Theoret began building elements of the company which would later become...
Book Club #13: Start with Why by Simon Sinek
In 2009 Simon Sinek published a book called Start with Why. That same year he gave a TedX talk...