by George Sotiropoulos | Nov 21, 2025 | Business Value, Dependency on Owner, Scaling the Business
Four business owners.Four different industries.Four ways to fumble the gold already in their hands.This week wasn’t about motivation.It was about mirrors.Monday: I gave away a million-dollar pricing screen.Not metaphorically. Literally.I built the tool before it...
by George Sotiropoulos | Nov 20, 2025 | Business Value, Dependency on Owner, Scaling the Business
My friend runs music festivals — 50,000 people per day.Sounds massive, right?Except after paying venues, artists, vendors, security, insurance…he’s left holding crumbs.“It’ll take years to really scale,” he said over coffee, exhausted.So I asked him two questions.Just...
by George Sotiropoulos | Nov 17, 2025 | Business Value, Scaling the Business
Back in my Mideast FX days, I built something that—looking back—makes me shake my head.Using our trading volume and the pricing flows we saw all day long, I created a pricing screen that became thebenchmark for the entire region.Banks marked their books off it.Hedge...
by George Sotiropoulos | Nov 7, 2025 | Business Value, Scaling the Business
This week’s stories all had one thing in common:They started in the wreckage.The mirror moment — when the problem wasn’t “out there,” but staring back at you.The crash — when the business you built to free you became the thing that trapped you.The rediscovery — when...
by George Sotiropoulos | Nov 6, 2025 | Business Value, Scaling the Business
Last Friday, during the SBC M&A Deep Dive, one of the participants said something that nailed what’s wrong with most business owners in our region:“Everyone thinks every problem can be solved by throwing more money, time, or effort at it.”He was right.A business...
by George Sotiropoulos | Oct 31, 2025 | Business Value, Dependency on Owner, Scaling the Business
This week’s stories had one thing in common — control.The illusion of it.The cost of it.And what happens when you finally learn to let go.It started with a Halloween lesson — a 4-year-old who did everything right and still didn’t get the prize.Because sometimes, life...
