Find Another Gear (May 2025)

In the movie, Invincible, with Mark Wahlberg, there is a line “Let’s go, gentlemen, find another gear.” That line is inspiration for today’s writing on transaction work.  During 2024 I wrote two articles on exit strategy. The first, A Word …

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A Word About Exit Strategy (July 2024)

It’s probably fair to say that every business owner has had a day where they wanted to say, “I’m outta here!”. Running a business can be rewarding, fulfilling, profitable, but also very tough. But not so fast, before any business …

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One Quarter of the Way (March 2024)

As I write this newsletter, we are one quarter of the way through the year. It’s always a bit hard to believe how quickly the days turn into weeks, and then months and then quarters.  But let’s not get ahead …

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Finance 001 (May 2023)

This message is so basic that it doesn’t deserve the title Finance 101. My hope is that none of my regular readers find anything useful in here but that they pass it along to someone else as a public service …

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Abuse of Power (March 2023)

To those of you who read the title and assumed that I was going to go political, I’m not.  Although that would be easy to do these days no matter the side of the aisle on which you reside. Instead, …

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Deals 101 (February 2023)

I’ve worked on a number of transactions during my career. The first one was the $5 billion merger between Burroughs and Sperry. The rest have been far smaller. The lessons I’ve learned in the first and across many of the …

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