February 2, 2017
Everything is Local
The little things around us have a big impact. What triggered this train of thought was two things. On November 4 710ESPN sports announcer Danny…
January 27, 2017
Negative Endorsements
With the election just past (yeah!) it made me realize we vote for a lot of things on which we really shouldn’t be voting. Judges…
January 23, 2017
Business Buyers and Sellers Have Prisons to Escape
The following picture is in my book If They Can Sell Pet Rocks Why Can't You Sell Your Business (For What You Want)? It shows how after…
January 20, 2017
Oversupply and Demand (Not Good)
“Restaurants Burned by Oversupply” is the Business section headline from the October 17, 2016 Wall Street Journal. The visual is a (Halloween themed) cemetery with…
January 17, 2017
Buying a Business in a Competitive Marketplace, how to Separate Yourself from the Pack?
By Gregory Kovsky John Martinka, as one of Seattle’s most successful, knowledgeable, & experienced buyer’s brokers, and I, as the President of IBA, the Pacific…
January 14, 2017
Jealous Dogs and Jealous People
Last week we dog sat for our younger son’s two Golden Retrievers. Quite an experience with monsoon type rains for a few days that left…
January 11, 2017
Limited Information Solutions
For years I’ve loved listening to Car Talk on NPR, even now when it’s in a “best of” mode given one of the brothers died.…
January 8, 2017
Where do You Want to be in One Year?
I met with a group of clients in early November to “check-in’ as we head to the end of the year. The usual issues involve…
January 6, 2017
Are You Ready For “Surgery”
On September 27, 2016 the Wall Street Journal published an article titled, “Doctors Give Pre-Surgery Orders to Get in Shape.” The first sentence is, “Are…
January 3, 2017
Buying a Business Works; M&A (Usually) Doesn’t
Gretchen Morgenstern in The New York Times wrote about how, “Blockbuster deals like Bayer’s $56 billion takeover of agribusiness giant Monsanto seldom live up to…
