Tag Archives: Business Growth Strategy
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
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
Investment Returns Are Not Greener by Changing Industries
It is easier to earn outsized investment returns in some industries over others — I agree with that conventional wisdom. As an investor or entrepreneur, it often pays off to think hard about which industries to enter. If you have a choice, why not increase… 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
Best Financing Source for a Business: Its Customers
Financing growth for your business with cash from customers, rather than more expensive debt or equity, makes your ownership even more powerful. In most of the investments made into operating companies by Greybull Stewardship, my investment fund, our operating companies get paid by customers before… 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
Company Culture Like Fine Wine or Great Coffee
Company culture gets crafted over time by thousands of small decisions, and a few large ones. Yes, the big decisions about the vineyard or varietal takes spectacular time. But I was struck by how many small decisions like the shape of wood barrel, the wood… Continue reading
Announcing Increased Investment in Appointment Plus — leading appointment scheduling software
Greybull Stewardship, my investment fund, is excited to announce that we have invested more capital into Appointment Plus, the leading business automation software specializing in appointment scheduling. By doing so, Greybull Stewardship has increased its ownership percentage in a growing company that plays an important… Continue reading
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