The growth in technology and media over the last few years has produced several notable examples of scrappy start-ups that disrupt massive markets and, in the process, disintermediate their much larger competitors. By the time such start-ups become household names,...
As we’ve shared on this blog before, scale-up entrepreneurs are often so busy leading their companies through the Hyper-Growth phase of the Entrepreneurial Company Lifecycle™ that they neglect to step back from the day-to-day grind of running their businesses to...
As we’ve shared before, we think the Entrepreneurial Company Lifecycle™ perfectly illustrates the important milestones of both growth companies, as well as growth oriented entrepreneurs who intend to replicate business success over and over (whether within their...
As entrepreneurs, at some point during the life of our companies, we encounter opportunities to acquire another business as part of our growth strategy. Unfortunately, the process of acquiring another company is often made unnecessarily complex by advisors and others...
In prior blog posts we’ve discussed some great topics like Core Values, Culture and Strategy, which as entrepreneurs we can easily sink our teeth into and enthusiastically pursue. For many of you, the mere mention of “systems and process” may cause your eyes to glaze...
Think for a moment about all of the knowledge and experience that you have accumulated to this point in your life. For many of us, we have gained these insights through both education (formal and informal) and simply by doing things. Some of us have been fortunate...
