Budget Tips & Frameworks
It’s budget season and I thought it would be helpful to gather previous blog posts covering some practical tips. The key advice we give clients is quite simple: Treat budgets as an opportunity to meet as a team to agree policies for next year. Examples of...
A New Era of Entrepreneurship – Building Exit-Ready Businesses
For decades, acquisitions of private companies were seen to be a failure most of the time, and that was from the acquirer’s perspective. Research cited in HBR and most popular business magazines claimed 70% to 90% failure rates. It was a graveyard of dreams. But...
Reimagining The Exit Process – Building Businesses Buyers Love To Buy
During the next three years many companies across the globe will come to market to exit with the help of an Investment Bank and most will be disappointed with the results. Many will receive an underwhelming offer, many will not receive any offer at all, and many will...
Entrepreneurship
40 years scaling 17 businesses teaches you some hard lessons. Here are a few on 7 slides. I hope it saves you time. Entrepreneurship Ian@TPPBoston.com Ian Smith is the founder of The Portfolio Partnership, a Value Creation Company. We build businesses buyers love to...Operational Excellence For Exits
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