June 27, 2025
Know Your Numbers
The main frontpage headline of the May 18 Seattle Times was about how the Seattle Public Schools bought land 40 years ago anticipating the need…
June 20, 2025
Gardens Grow; So Should Businesses
One key factor to increasing a business’ value is growth. Show you can grow and keep growing. Don’t coast, because you can only coast downhill.…
June 16, 2025
Learn From Mistakes (Preferably Others’ Mistakes)
What Do These Have in Common? Business publications like The Wall Street Journalor your local Business Journal Trade magazines and industry journals Podcasts focused on business or…
June 13, 2025
We All Have Hits and Misses
With Warren Buffett announcing his retirement as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway there have been numerous articles on his fantastic run of success. One that caught…
June 6, 2025
Above All – It’s the Fit
I’m a regular reader of the Wall Street Journal and one thing in common with WSJ articles and lower middle market buy-sell is the “fit.”…
May 30, 2025
Thoughts on Tariffs and Small Business
As I write this on April 21, the stock market indexes are all down about 3%. My skepticism wonders if the market being driven down…
May 23, 2025
Does Anybody Know What’s Happening?
In the April 14, 2024 WSJ Andy Kessler writes one of the best columns I’ve seen on why what’s coming out of D.C. is dangerous…
May 9, 2025
Know What Drives Your Growth
There was a WSJ headline recently about how P&G has surpassed Unilever, and it stated they did it by building on their strengths, i.e. their…
May 2, 2025
Win-Lose or Win-Win
I got a newsletter with the title, “Win-Lose Thinking Is for Losers.” It states the real game isn’t you vs. them but you vs. who…