Tag: Entrepreneurship
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Connect, Collaborate, & Conquer: Expand Your Network, Grow Your Profits
Over the weekend, I went to a trade show and met a number of very interesting people working on very interesting projects. One conversation went down the rabbit hole of the benefits (tangible and intangible) of networking. We agreed it best to approach networking from the standpoint of curiosity and learning (what’s your story? what…
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10 Things Every Entrepreneur Should Do
How are you spending your day as an owner, operator, or advisor to businesses? Here’s a quick and easy daily task checklist I use to manage my portfolio of companies: Most of these are easy habits to work into a normal routine without much effort and many can be finished in the first 30 minutes of the…
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Exit Planning Tips and Tricks
It’s a seller’s market The typical business sale goes something like this: Not all deals go that way, but the “quick exit” ones typically do. The average sale process can take 6-12 months, but the exit planning process in front of that can take 2-3 years. Earlier this week, my partner and I attended a…
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The Action Priority Matrix
The basic steps for getting things done could be summed up as: I’m always looking for new ways to compartmentalize work and life. Lately, I’ve been using a simple framework referred to as the “Action Priority Matrix.” It’s a close cousin to the Eisenhower Decision Matrix which blends urgent and important tasks into categories of: do, schedule,…