By Cliff Ennico One of the hardest things a company founder, entrepreneur, or self-employed professional can do is get out of their own way and allow their businesses to grow without them. And there is one and only one way to do that – delegating to others. No one individual can build a billion-dollar business […]
By Cliff Ennico “I am in the process of buying a small business. “There are some issues with this business, and I asked the seller if we could hold back ten percent (10 percent) of the purchase price for a year to see how things went. “The seller said he was agreeable, but in reviewing […]
By Cliff Ennico ’Tis business plan competition season once again. This time of year I spend lots of time traveling around the country judging business plan competitions at colleges and universities. The participants are either undergraduate or business school students who form “teams” and compete for cash prizes or (sometimes) face time with me and […]
By Cliff Ennico I don’t know about you, but I find most networking groups to be exceedingly boring, nonproductive and in some cases cringe-inducing. I’m not generally a fan of networking groups. I’m not sure people get much new business out of them. Still, networking groups have their upside. They can be great places to […]
By Cliff Ennico Anyone trying to figure out the mood of the American voter right now is bound to be scratching their heads. Last November, the voters threw Republicans into Congress and the White House in almost record numbers, with a mandate to slash Government spending, end Obamacare, and enact massive tax cuts. Straightforward enough, […]