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Agenda Setting – An Organizational Tip

by Ian Smith | Jan 5, 2025 | Operational Excellence

Who sets your agenda in the organization? It is a question that uncovers a flaw in most businesses as they scale through the phases of their lifecycle. At first, perhaps with 3 or 4 employees it doesn’t matter too much. You are trying to get stuff done and...

Budget Tips & Frameworks

by Ian Smith | Oct 24, 2024 | budgets

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

by Ian Smith | Sep 27, 2024 | Acquisitions, Exiting your business

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

by Ian Smith | Aug 27, 2024 | Entrepreneurship, Exiting your business

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

by Ian Smith | Jul 9, 2024 | Uncategorized

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...