Thinking Vs. Doing: The Owner’s Dilemma

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Selling The Baby In The Bathwater

Many service company founders yearn for a product business. Some even fund the product development through the service business. This week we discuss the alternative: why not sell the service…

Your Training Wheels Business

A lot of owners think selling equates to retirement, but selling your business and retiring are not the same thing. In Josh Latimer’s case he sold his company Birds Beware,…

Engineering Profitability

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Did Microsoft Overpay For LinkedIn?

Microsoft’s recent $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn provides an illustrative example of a strategic acquisition – the type of sale that usually garners the most gain for the acquired company’s…