Tag Archives: Business Growth & Opportunities
Invest in Strength Rather Than Work on Weakness
For your business, do you believe it is more important to spend more time on your challenges or your opportunities? Similarly, do you believe that you should invest in your strengths or work on your weaknesses? The answer, of course, depends. If the challenge in… Continue reading
New $20 Million Investment Fund Looking for Profitable, Fast-growing Businesses
Greybull Stewardship, L.P., an investment fund, completed in January 2014 its $20 million round two capital commitments. Since the fund’s January 2010 inception, annual returns have realized 23 percent after fees. As a result, existing Limited Partners (LPs) increased their commitments and new LPs were… Continue reading
Align Your “Loss Ratio” Expectations with Your Investors
In early stage venture capital, the best investors expect that 40% of their investments will become worthless. Thus, they focus on companies that could be worth billions because the winners have to make up for all their losses. They want every company to shoot for… Continue reading
Business Owners Must Balance Math (Finance) and Soul (Company Culture)
Owning a business means balancing all sorts of things. We have explored this idea in a few other posts: the Art of Balance that has a starter list of 20 things a business owner must balance such as strategy vs. execution and delegating vs. doing,… Continue reading
Ideal business financing for growing, profitable companies in 100 posts or less?
“Teach what you want to learn” is the theme with which I started this blog in April 2012. Since then, I have written 100 posts — which means I’ve learned for myself and shared what I’ve learned under several themes: Business financing and venture capital… Continue reading
Great Business Partners Give You Keys to Success
Business grows through partnerships — sometimes just for a brief transaction and sometimes for life. Despite the false cliche that “nice guys finish last,” my experience has been that being able to forge good partnerships forges keys to long-term success. This is because very little… Continue reading
Path of Equity Value Creation Not Easy to Plan or Pace (see Disney)
Equity value creation, in my experience, does not follow a smooth, straight path or a predictable timeline. It zigs and zags, stalls and spurts. Therefore, forcing a company into a certain path of possibilities or tight timetable is often counter-productive. I have found it to… Continue reading
Joys of Ice Cream, Apple Pie, and Recurring Revenue
Charlie Munger, Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, once told a friend of mine that if Charlie were a young man, he would be “trying to find online recurring revenue businesses” — like many that are being built and growing today. The combination of recurring revenue… Continue reading
Like Warren Buffett, Best Investment Philosophy Balances Discipline with Flexibility
Warren Buffett is famous for his discipline in his early investing success. Now, I think he is demonstrating his flexibility (some are critical of his recent flexibility) in investment philosophy. Both are important skills for business owners and managers to master and to know when… Continue reading
Unique Businesses Are A Force For Good
The best businesses are not just about making money. It is necessary to make money to stay in business, but it is not sufficient for the business to be worth your time. That is why the strongest businesses, in my opinion, are the ones that… Continue reading
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