by George Sotiropoulos | Jul 24, 2023 | Business Value
“I plead the fifth…” To Americans this is a well known phrase. It’s the constitutional right you have not to incriminate yourself in a court of law.A lot of people around the world know it from watching it in movies or when some celebrity US trial is on the...
by George Sotiropoulos | Jul 21, 2023 | Business Value, Dependency on Owner, Scaling the Business
Let’s finish the week and this topic of a game of inches and how it applies to business.I want you to imagine you have someone who wants to buy your business and has offered you a life-changing amount for it.Do you have that amount in your head?Great..Keep it in...
by George Sotiropoulos | Jul 20, 2023 | Business Value, Dependency on Owner, Scaling the Business
Chicago … winter 1985… Bears…Makes the frenzy around ChatGPT look like Childs play compared to the sports fever that gripped Chicago that fall.As teenagers, and to be honest, like everyone in the city those months, we were obsessed with the team, its colourful...
by George Sotiropoulos | Jul 19, 2023 | Business Value
It was one of those days.. the ones where you know your life is going to change..This was going to be my first M&A Deal.From a random meeting in London I had helped put together an acquisition that wasn’t huge in deal size (less than $10 million) but was exciting...
by George Sotiropoulos | Jul 18, 2023 | Business Value, Scaling the Business
I was confused…Did my wife and I switch places?Was I facing the parent of a seven year old … angry that her precious little boy was having a hard time with his letters and numbers and so the teacher is at fault.“You can’t ask him that.. he doesn’t have it and it’s not...