Posts by John Nieuwenburg
The Little Handbook for Getting Stuff Done
This is so good, I had to share. A big shout out to Leo Babauta The Little Handbook for Getting Stuff Done There’s a ton to be gained by getting good at Getting Stuff Done (GSD). While I don’t think that productivity and efficiency is the answer to life, nor should it be your only…
Read MoreGrowing Fast? Here’s What’s Likely To Kill Your Company
Growing Fast? Here’s What’s Likely To Kill Your Company If your goal is to grow your business fast, you need a positive cash flow cycle or the ability to raise money at a feverish pace. Anything less and you will quickly grow yourself out of business.A positive cash flow cycle simply means you get paid…
Read MoreHow To Lure A Giant Like Facebook Into Buying Your Company
How To Lure A Giant Like Facebook Into Buying Your Company A great business is bought, not sold, so, if you look too eager to sell your business, you’ll be negotiating on the back foot and look desperate—a recipe for a bad exit. But, what if you really want to sell? Maybe you’ve got a…
Read MoreThe Turn Around at Flat Foot Engineering
Max Mabuti – The Turnaround at Flat-Foot Engineering from The Value Builder System™ on Vimeo. After an ill-fated expansion plan, Max Mabuti’s Flat- Foot Engineering faced insolvency. Mabuti turned to a Certified Value Builder™, and within one year of leveraging The Value Builder System™, Mabuti had stabilized the business and grown its top line by…
Read MoreHow To Avoid Disappointment When It’s Time To Sell Your Business
How do you avoid not being disappointed with the money you make from the sale of your company? Perhaps you’ve heard that companies like yours trade using an industry rule of thumb or that companies of your size sell within a specific range, and you want to get at least what your peers have received.…
Read MoreThe Automatic Customer White Paper
The Automatic Customer White Paper In the last week of October 2017, The Automatic Customer: Creating A Subscription Business In Any Industry was ranked one of the Top 5 Business Books by Fortune Magazine. In celebration of this, we have created the white paper The Automatic Customer: 9 Subscription Models Any Business Can Adopt. From this white…
Read MoreDoes your business have a scoreboard?
Does your business have a scoreboard? Would you go to a hockey game if it didn’t have a scoreboard, it seems pointless, doesn’t it? Warren Buffett said it, “If you can’t read the scoreboard, you don’t know the score. If you don’t know the score, you can’t tell the winners from the losers.” Are you…
Read More5 “strategic” ways to buy or sell a company
5 “strategic” ways to buy or see a company Did you see the news that Facebook acquired messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion? At the time it represented the largest-ever acquisition of an Internet company in history. WhatsApp is a pearl for sure. The messaging service allows users to avoid text-messaging charges by moving texts…
Read MoreFour ways to protect your business against competition
Four ways to protect your business against competition Warren Buffett famously invests in businesses that have what he calls a protective “moat” around them – one that inoculates them from competition and allows them to control their pricing. Big companies lock out their competitors by out-slugging them in capital infrastructure investments, but smaller businesses have…
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