We’re expanding our toolkit for business owners who need more than platitudes. First up: Exit Readiness is for owners aiming to sell in 12–24 months. Not the “tidy up your financials” advice or a to-do list you can get everywhere else, but real, deliberate help to actually do the hard work of eliminating valuation killers,…

People still want a chance to cheat the middle-class investor. I was annoyed to see this letter to the editor in the WSJ, whining about “paternalism” and the accredited investor rule. For those new to the question, here’s what I wrote 8 years ago on exactly this topic because everyone was getting hot and bothered…

Viable, Valuable, and Investable Our co-founder, Mike Princi, coined this triplet years ago. He used it as a shorthand to remind people that new businesses, whether tech-style startups, corporate carveouts, or IP commercialization attempts, have to satisfy all three of these requirements to survive. If they don’t, they’ll look very different than they hoped. Viable…

The Freakonomics authors wrote an interesting post describing the hidden cost of multitasking. The interesting point is the idea that focusing rather than juggling doesn’t speed up the last thing to get done but does get the first thing done sooner. In common parlance, focusing allows you to ship something sooner than trying to do…