Financial Eyes & Ears

Finding the perfect investor can be a Goldilocks-type challenge. Here’s how one company found that ‘just right’ investor. Here’s a tale of a business that was looking for the “just right” buyer. This manufacturing company in the aerospace industry was lost and had wondered completely off the growth track. This company had developed a strong [...]

How you use technology not only reflects on you personally, but also on your company and its reputation. We now have the possibility to be connected continually: text messages, emails, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn… all of which can be accessed from our smartphones, our iPads, our computers. And yet, for the first time in our history, [...]

Genius sometimes just means not realizing that something is impossible. A college student arrived a few minutes late for his final exam in mathematics. The room was quiet, with everyone working hard, and the profes­sor silently handed him the test. It consisted of five math problems on the first page and two on the second. [...]

Most would say you’d have to be crazy. But this Chinese gadgetmaker proves being crazy can make you $100 million a year. In a contest with a giant, you might think that you can’t win. And in some ways, you’d be right, as the David versus Goliath image is overplayed. A small or medium business [...]

Is $3.5 million for 30 seconds of fame worth it? These businesses are putting it all on the line during Super Bowl XLVI. Some make you laugh, others (attempt to) make you cry. Others, well, they’re forgettable. It’s all part of the fun at the Super Bowl, where brands spend upwards of $3 million for [...]

As our business grew, I started neglecting my family and friends–and no advice seemed to help bring balance. That is, until I read this passage. Is attaining balance really possible in an entrepreneurial environment? Over the past six years I have struggled to achieve some semblance of balance when it comes to managing both my [...]

Sometimes, “perfect” can be a problem. Here’s how to make your company more nimble. We have a common saying in my company: You can either be slow and perfect or fast and good. Perfect a month from now usually misses the mark; the world changes too fast, leaving you not perfect, but rather perfectly late. [...]