Between 2003 and 2008 my husband Chris and I did the following: moved halfway across the country, had two children, started three businesses and sold one of them. Those years were a blur, but I don't remember taking a vacation longer than three days. By the time we...
Category: Owner’s Life
The Problem With Loving Your Business
Early in my corporate career I was in a team meeting where the manager asked us all to answer the following question: What motivates you? Sensing a trap, I kept quiet and let my unsuspecting co-workers take the bait. It was only a matter of seconds before somebody...
You Sell A Business For The Same Reason You Start One: Freedom
The motivation to sell a business and start one often come from the same place: The desire for freedom. In this article we discuss the two types of freedom that come from selling a business: Financial freedom, and having complete freedom over your time.
3 Reasons Why We Decided To Sell Our Business
While every deal is different, the underlying reasons for selling a business tend to be quite similar. Regardless of the size of the business, its age (or that of the owner), the industry or geographic location, most of us end up reaching our limit as business owners...
Raising kids to be entrepreneurs
I guess it should come as no surprise that in over two years of business blogging for the New York Times my most popular post had almost nothing to do with small business.