by Pamela Dennis | Jun 16, 2017 | Blog, Car Love Affairs, Entrepreneurs, Growth, Growth Challenges, Leadership, Planning, Selling a Business, Start-Ups, Transitions
Growth and the Good Old Days This is the first of a two-part blog post on Surviving Growth, based on a workshop I’ll be presenting this month for the Denver Business Journal. Part 1 looks at the characteristics and challenges of four stages of growth. Part 2 will look...
by Pamela Dennis | May 11, 2017 | Blog, Boomer Perspectives, Planning, Selling a Business, Transitions
I’m speaking soon to a group of business advisors about helping their clients gain a sense of urgency about exit planning, since only about 15 percent of business owners have a written plan. I was asked to be sure to think about the role of insurance. Insurance!? I...
by Pamela Dennis | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog, Buyer Options, Car Love Affairs, Customers, Planning, Selling a Business, Transitions
Last week I sold my favorite car. It was a 1998 Audi A4 Quattro with only 110,000 miles on it. It lived for 10 years in Boulder, and then 10 years tucked in a rust-safe garage at our beach house in San Diego. It was pearl white with creamy leather seats and barely a...
by Pamela Dennis | Feb 28, 2017 | Blog, Boomer Perspectives, Encore, Growth, Planning, Selling a Business, Transitions
Getting Older, Letting Go, Moving Forward When I was selling my company, I was frequently asked, “What’s next?” or “What are your goals now?” I was only 55; surely I had big plans. When I was writing Exit Signs, I heard a constant question from Boomer owners young and...
by Pamela Dennis | Jan 17, 2017 | Blog, Growth, Planning, Start-Ups
Is the Ultra-lean, Non-employee Company the New Way? When I was writing Exit Signs, I interviewed many small business owners. They all had employees and most had revenues of half a million or more. Their stories of selling their companies, or thinking about selling,...
by Pamela Dennis | Nov 22, 2016 | Blog, Planning, Selling a Business, Start-Ups, Transitions
It’s hard to believe Thanksgiving is just days away (or maybe already in the rearview mirror, by the time you catch your breath and read this). Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and always makes me stop to reflect on all I have to be grateful for, from the people in...
by Pamela Dennis | Oct 28, 2016 | Blog, Encore, Planning, Selling a Business, Transitions
It’s almost Halloween: fall’s in the air, ghosts and goblins, action figures, and princess costumes in the stores, parades of trick or treating kids with parents in tow in the early evening — quite the scene where I live in Boulder, Colorado. I always prepare...
by Pamela Dennis | Sep 8, 2016 | Blog, Boomer Perspectives, Encore, Planning, Selling a Business, Transitions
“Baby Boomer women are dreaming of retiring to Mars, while Baby Boomer men hope to retire to Venus.” — Sharon O’Brien, “How Baby Boomers Will Change Retirement” I’ve read that only 39 percent of married couples, in general, say they and their spouse share...
by Pamela Dennis | Aug 22, 2016 | Blog, Boomer Perspectives, Planning, Selling a Business, Transitions
Remember when summer vacation was about to end and going back to school was just around the corner? Summer sure went by fast. By late August it was time to check the back-to-school list, which “back in the day” was pretty simple: clothes and supplies. My family didn’t...
by Pamela Dennis | Jul 26, 2016 | Blog, Planning, Start-Ups, Transitions
It’s summer, and many of us are on the road enjoying vacations. If you undertook a vacation road trip before GPS, you probably used a paper map. When driving in Europe I always bought Michelin maps, which are so large when open that they fill the entire passenger...
