I’ve worked with many founders who are starting their business, I’ve worked with founders who are past survive but not quite into thrive, and plenty of founders who are looking for the exit path that will make all of the work and heartache worthwhile. The brilliant part about my job is that I get to help great people find a way through the rocky but exciting pathway of idea to success and sometimes to help people rescue a second chance out of a ‘failure’. The frustrating part

One of the phrases I hear most often in conversations with people building businesses is: “I wish we’d had this conversation earlier.” It’s a comment that has stayed with me because it almost always comes at the same point. Not when a business is struggling, but when it’s succeeding. The decisions that helped the business survive are beginning to shape what success looks like. That isn’t because anyone made a bad decision. Quite the opposite. Most of the time they were making