Millenials and College students face a new age. Of late in the news we repeatedly are told of how college graduates are underemployed or can’t find jobs. As a parent of teens looking to enter that eventual pool, I say “Great”. The working world is not what I entered into in the early 1990’s. Manufacturing […]
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Consistency Matters in Business Sales
You would never know it to look at my but some 30 years ago I was about 100 lbs lighter and was a distance runner. I had the joy and pleasure of running for a school with a long history of success in Cross Country and Track & Field. A large part of that success […]
Business is Chess…..Strategy and Observations
A couple of days ago i was having a party celebrating my wife’s graduation and one of my guests was my financial planner. The usual chit chat occurred and I shared my views on my market place and the baby boomer dynamic. He smiled a bit and said “on that topic we do need to […]
Small Business Seller Tsunami…..When does it hit?
Way back in 2008 business brokers around the country predicted that that aging out of the baby boomer generation would result in what folks were calling the “Seller Tsunami” In short a large group of business owners were supposed to be transition wealth and business creating a pool of acquisition targets for buyers. Well….that didn’t […]
Small Business Brokers in Slate Magazine
A client of mine told a writer about his experience #buying a business from Transworld. Here is the story: After 30 years of telecom and network systems work in corporate America, John Smee was ready for a change. He’d thought plenty of times before how nice it would be to find a little operation of […]