Let's look at three different situations in which businesses may find themselves and how people in my buy-sell world look at them. Losing money. Recent…
JohnMAugust 7, 2014
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Consider the following: Amazon.com uses a temp agency to hire warehouse people and put them through a probationary period. My friend Gary with three-dozen employees…
JohnMAugust 1, 2014
As I mentioned last week, Lucas Mack with 4th Avenue Media presented to a group of my clients and me recently. The first thing I wrote down…
JohnMJuly 3, 2014
The best sportswriter in the country, in my humble opinion, is Jason Gay with The Wall Street Journal. He writes about all sports, has a…
JohnMJune 28, 2014
Lisa Forrest was right; you’re seeing this story. A couple weeks ago we were both at our mutual client’s business, Elmore Electric, now owned by…
JohnMMay 28, 2014
Three times a year we visit my mother-in-law and it always triggers one particular "reminder" in my head. You see, she grew up during the…
JohnMMay 5, 2014
Saturday night we were watching Restaurant Impossible as we ate dinner. Regular readers of my newsletters know that I write a lot about how business…
JohnMApril 30, 2014
I recently attended an ACG webinar on M&A due diligence. My expectations were that we'd spend a lot of time on spreadsheets and legalities. Boy…
JohnMApril 1, 2014
An ongoing question in the buy-sell industry is, "What's included in the deal?" Especially when it comes to working capital. If you just peg a…
JohnMMarch 22, 2014
On our return trip from our Rotary project in Antigua I was the first one to check in and did so via a kiosk. As…
JohnMMarch 19, 2014
I'm writing this while in Antigua on our annual Rotary Club project and on Sunday we had an off day so a few of us went…
JohnMMarch 17, 2014
Well, the Seahawks received their first Lombardi trophy after they crushed Denver and won the Super Bowl so it's time for another (last for this…
JohnMMarch 15, 2014
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JohnMMarch 13, 2014
I'm in Antigua on our annual Rotary service project. Last week I was talking with my friend Jeff Mason at Newport High School - his…
JohnMMarch 12, 2014
Back in the 1990’s, in the days when you actually paid for long distance phone calls, I called my telephone company salesperson (when you also…
JohnMMarch 10, 2014
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