{"id":1204,"date":"2012-09-20T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:58:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:58:43","slug":"business-investment-funding-finance-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/business-investment-funding-finance-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"50th Post Since April &#8212; How am I doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/50BPOSTS.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1264\" title=\"50BPOSTS\" src=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/50BPOSTS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/50BPOSTS.png 214w, https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/50BPOSTS-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/50BPOSTS-75x75.png 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>Today&#8217;s post marks my 50th blog post since I began the blog on April 22, 2012.\u00a0 To me, it feels good to be writing posts and I hope it is helpful to some <a title=\"About Greybull Stewardship Business Investment Partnership | Unique Business Opportunities, Business Owners\" href=\"https:\/\/greybullstewardship.com\/mason-myers-greybull-stewardship\/\">business owners<\/a> and <a title=\"Greybull Stewardship Accredited Investors, Limited Partners | Financial Return On Investment\" href=\"https:\/\/greybullstewardship.com\/investor-partners\/\">investors<\/a> out there.\u00a0 To make sure it is helpful, I would appreciate some feedback:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any feedback on the topics that you like and do not like?<\/li>\n<li>Any feedback on the frequency of posts (most weeks have about 2 posts with some weeks at 1 or 3)?<\/li>\n<li>Any feedback on the length of the posts, shorter or longer?<\/li>\n<li>Any other feedback?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of the 50 posts, here are links to some of my favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"To Sell Your Business or Not To Sell Your Business \u2014 That is the Question (a series)\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/selling-business-decision\/\">Series on &#8220;To Sell or Not To Sell Your Business&#8221;<\/a> [April 22, 2012] and subsequent posts trying to help business owners decide if\/when\/how to sell their business.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Trend-spotting at Harvard Business School\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/harvard-business-school-trend-spotting\/\">Trend-Spotting at Harvard Business School<\/a> [June 4, 2012] that has observations from my reunion this year.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Survival of the Social-Collaboratist\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/business-survival-social-collaboratist\/\">Survival of the Social Collaboratist<\/a> [April 23, 2012] after a talk by Edward O. Wilson about how groups that socially collaborate do well.\u00a0 Many lessons for building and managing a successful business.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"To Increase Your Personal and Business Prosperity: Exchange More\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/business-growth-exchange-prosperity\/\">To Increase Your Personal and Business Prosperity: Exchange More<\/a> [July 13, 2012] about Matt Ridley&#8217;s concept of how exchange has created value throughout human history.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Coca-Cola vs. Wine (Perfect Business, Financially Speaking)\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/perfect-financial-business-coca-cola\/\">Coca Cola vs. Wine (Perfect Business, Financially Speaking)<\/a> [May 8, 2012] as part of a series attempting to prompt business owners how to think about how to improve the financial model of their business.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Power of Mission Driven Company Cultures and the \u201cStart with Why\u201d Book by Simon Sinek\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/company-culture-simon-sinek\/\">Power of Mission-Driven Company Cultures and the &#8220;Start With Why&#8221; book by Simon Sinek<\/a> [May 16, 2012] about the power of company cultures and employees and customers self-selecting to companies.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Is It Better to Make Employees Fit Roles or Roles Fit Employees?\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/employees-roles-fit\/\">Is it better to make employees fit roles or roles fit employees?<\/a> [July 10, 2012] about the constant decision we all make on how to help employees perform their best.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Thoughts on the Berkshire Hathaway Meeting 2012\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/berkshire-hathaway-annual-meeting-2012\/\">Thoughts on the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting 2012<\/a> [May 6, 2012] with many quotes.\u00a0 One for you from Warren Buffett, &#8220;The business of private equity is selling businesses, not buying them.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"postmeta_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"postmeta classifications small\"><span class=\"post_categories\">Categories:<a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/category\/sell-a-business-or-buy-a-business\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Sell or Buy a Business<\/a><\/span><br \/><span class=\"post_tags\">Tags:<a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/berkshire-hathaway\/\" rel=\"tag\">Berkshire Hathaway<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/business-growth-strategy\/\" rel=\"tag\">Business Growth Strategy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/coca-cola\/\" rel=\"tag\">Coca Cola<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/competitive-advantage\/\" rel=\"tag\">Competitive Advantage<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/culture\/\" rel=\"tag\">Culture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/donald-keough\/\" rel=\"tag\">Donald Keough<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/execution-2\/\" rel=\"tag\">Execution<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/financial-strategy\/\" rel=\"tag\">Financial Strategy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/financing\/\" rel=\"tag\">Financing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/greybull-stewardship\/\" rel=\"tag\">Greybull Stewardship<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/growing-a-business\/\" rel=\"tag\">Growing a Business<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/growth-rates\/\" rel=\"tag\">Growth Rates<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/hr\/\" rel=\"tag\">HR<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/human-resources\/\" rel=\"tag\">Human Resources<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/teamwork\/\" rel=\"tag\">Teamwork<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/tag\/warren-buffett\/\" rel=\"tag\">Warren Buffett<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s post marks my 50th blog post since I began the blog on April 22, 2012.\u00a0 To me, it feels good to be writing posts and I hope it is helpful to some business owners and investors out there.\u00a0 To make sure it is helpful,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/masonmyers.com\/business-investment-funding-finance-blog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30,91,42,38,41,43,33,84,47,13,90,34,40,82,83,29],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Small Business Blog For Business Owners And Investors | Mason Myers, Business Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Business owner and investor Mason Myers regularly offers incisive business tips &amp; commentary on his blog for business owners. 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