Posts by John Nieuwenburg

3 IDEAS FROM James Clear I.  Mastery requires both impatience and patience.The impatience to have a bias toward action, to not waste time, and to work with a sense of urgency each day.The patience to delay gratification, to wait for your actions to accumulate and to trust the process. II. When making plans, think big.When…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…