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In The Trenches

Steve Divitkos

Business & Entrepreneuriat

Fréquence : 1 épisode/13j. Total Éps: 146

The only podcast dedicated exclusively to Entrepreneurs and CEOs running Small to Medium Sized Businesses (SMB). Nobody knows what it’s like to be an Entrepreneur or CEO unless you’ve been one. Though many understand the rewards of company leadership, very few understand the arduous journey that’s required to get (and stay) there. I share my own lessons as an Entrepreneur and CEO, and interview experts spanning Sales, Leadership, Mental Health, M&A, and Operations (among others) all with a single goal: To improve the personal and professional lives of Entrepreneurs and CEOs running SMBs.

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The Link Between Money, Meaning, and Happiness

Saison 10 · Épisode 6

jeudi 12 septembre 2024 • Durée 53:58

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Profit Line: The Outsourced Finance & Accounting Department for Small and Medium Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Oberle Risk Strategies⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Insurance Broker and Insurance Due Diligence Provider for Search Funds and Other Small-to-Medium-Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

* Today I am thrilled to welcome Carl Richards to the podcast. Carl has spent decades as a Certified Financial Planner, is the creator of the Sketch Guy column (which appeared weekly for a decade in The New York Times), is a best selling author (most notably of The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things with Money), is a podcaster (most recently, the host of 50 Fires: A Podcast About Money and Meaning), and is a frequent contributor to countless financial and other publications, including Morningstar Advisor, Marketplace Money, Oprah.com, and Forbes.com, among others. In our conversation today, we cover: How in some instances money can indeed buy happiness; Why money is like alcohol; Why you should aim to “die with zero”; How to run small experiments to see what types of spending are likely to produce happiness for you; Why you may want to think about money as you would gathering firewood in a remote cabin in the wilderness; And much, much more.

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The Entrepreneur and the Spousal Relationship: Part 2

Saison 10 · Épisode 5

jeudi 29 août 2024 • Durée 01:04:41

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Oberle Risk Strategies⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Insurance Broker and Insurance Due Diligence Provider for Search Funds and Other Small-to-Medium-Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

* This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Profit Line: The Outsourced Finance & Accounting Department for Small and Medium Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

* As an entrepreneur myself, it’s clear to me that in some ways the realities of my chosen career path have magnified and heightened the challenges that are common to all relationships, and in other ways have added completely new dynamics that most other couples can’t directly relate to. Today, I attempt to shine a light on the role that spouses play in the entrepreneurial journey from the perspective of both the spouse and the entrepreneur. To help me do this, I’m joined by Dr. Jennifer Musselman, a globally-recognized Marriage and Family Therapist and Executive Coach for high-performing executives and entrepreneurs. Dr. Musselman’s clinical work focuses on the interplay of work, life, self-identity and marriage, including the common stressors that impact performance and relationship satisfaction for entrepreneurs and other business leaders.

Link to The Entrepreneur and the Spousal Relationship: Part 1

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45 (More) Things That I Think Are True

Saison 9 · Épisode 6

jeudi 25 avril 2024 • Durée 11:16

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Oberle Risk Strategies⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Insurance Broker and Insurance Due Diligence Provider for Search Funds and Other Small-to-Medium-Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Profit Line: The Outsourced Finance & Accounting Department for Small and Medium Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

In a previous post (75 Things That I Think Are True), I compiled quotes from countless books, mentors, podcasts and blogs to present 75 ideas that I believed to be fundamentally true, spanning both business and personal considerations. Since publishing that post last year, I have come across 45 additional quotes that I thought were also worthy of presentation. I hope that some of these new submissions also distill a lifetime of wisdom into only a few words.

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The Constellation Software Playbook for Acquiring and Growing Software Companies

Saison 9 · Épisode 5

jeudi 11 avril 2024 • Durée 01:17:56

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Profit Line: The Outsourced Finance & Accounting Department for Small and Medium Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Oberle Risk Strategies⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Insurance Broker and Insurance Due Diligence Provider for Search Funds and Other Small-to-Medium-Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Constellation Software is one of the world's most widely followed and admired software companies, having acquired upwards of 500 lower-middle-market software companies since its founding in 1995. Our guest today, Mike Dufton, is the CEO of the Volaris group, one of the six major operating units within Constellation, that itself owns upwards of 200 portfolio companies.

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Evaluating Stock Options as Attraction, Retention, and Incentive Alignment Tools

Saison 9 · Épisode 4

jeudi 28 mars 2024 • Durée 22:55

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Oberle Risk Strategies⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Insurance Broker and Insurance Due Diligence Provider for Search Funds and Other Small-to-Medium-Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Profit Line: The Outsourced Finance & Accounting Department for Small and Medium Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

After many years of using company stock options as attraction, retention, and incentive alignment tools, I’ve come to appreciate their merits, risks, and possible alternatives. I intend to share these lessons with you today. More specifically though, I will argue that while options do have their time and place, there are often much simpler and less expensive alternatives that arguably have a greater impact on attraction, retention, and incentive alignment.

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Can Ambition and Inner Peace Coexist? With Rob Dube

Saison 9 · Épisode 3

jeudi 14 mars 2024 • Durée 01:26:38

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Profit Line: The Outsourced Finance & Accounting Department for Small and Medium Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Today I'm joined by entrepreneur, CEO, and best-selling author, Rob Dube. In 1991, Rob co-founded imageOne, a managed print services business based in Oak Park, Michigan, that has won countless awards across countless publications for it’s growth, culture, and employee engagement, among many other accolades.

Today we discuss Rob's newest book, Shine: How Looking Inward Is the Key to Unlocking True Entrepreneurial Freedom. This book is all about how CEOs can manage their worlds, which stands in stark contrast to most business books, that focus almost exclusively on how CEOs can manage their outer-worlds. Rob co-authored the book alongside Gino Wickman, who is the author of the widely-read , the book that introduced the world to the Entrepreneurial Operating System ("EOS").

Answers to Recurring FAQs from Current and Prospective Searchers

Saison 9 · Épisode 2

jeudi 29 février 2024 • Durée 44:57

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Oberle Risk Strategies⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Insurance Broker and Insurance Due Diligence Provider for Search Funds and Other Small-to-Medium-Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Profit Line: The Outsourced Finance & Accounting Department for Small and Medium Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Many searchers understandably tend to have very similar questions and areas of uncertainty. Indeed, in most instances, I had these very same questions and areas of uncertainty myself prior to raising my own search fund in 2012. As a result of the frequency with which I'm asked these questions, I've presented each of them in today's episode, and have also included my opinion on what the answers may be. Some of the questions include:

Constructing a cap table
Differences between the Canadian and US search ecosystems
Is the search fund market too crowded/saturated
The trade-off between price and business quality
What the best searchers do in their first 3-6 months
Proprietary vs. brokered deal flow generation
When to visit a prospective seller
Success rates of industry agnostic searches
Having an industry & geographic focus
Homogeneity among search investors re: industry preferences
How to spend your first week as a new CEO
Should I create a 100-day plan?

Profit Before Anything Else: With Mike Michalowicz, Author of "Profit First"

Saison 9 · Épisode 1

mercredi 14 février 2024 • Durée 01:19:11

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Profit Line: The Outsourced Finance & Accounting Department for Small and Medium Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Today I'm joined by Entrepreneur, Investor, and Author Mike Michalowicz. In addition to being the author of 9 books, Mike is himself a serial entrepreneur, having founded, operated, and successfully exited several companies across his multi-decade career. He now spends much of his professional time writing, speaking, and coaching CEOs and entrepreneurs on the various systems that helped make him successful, including (and especially) his "Profit First" system, a highly tactical guide to organizing your entire company around achieving endurable profitability.

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Royce Yudkoff & Rick Ruback: Educators, Mentors, and Leaders Within the SMB Community

Saison 8 · Épisode 10

jeudi 1 février 2024 • Durée 01:02:18

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Profit Line: The Outsourced Finance & Accounting Department for Small and Medium Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Today I am thrilled to be joined by two guests that, without the risk of hyperbole, have changed my life in more ways than I can count. Royce Yudkoff & Rick Ruback are both professors at the Harvard business school, and co-teach two wildly popular courses called “The Financial Management of Smaller Firms” and “Entrepreneurship through Acquisition”, both of which focus on how to acquire, finance and operate your own smaller firm. They also co-published the widely read book, The HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business, published by Harvard Business Review Press, which acts as the definitive source of wisdom and guidance for a countless number of acquisition entrepreneurs

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Jeff Stevens & A.J. Wasserstein on The Future of Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition

Saison 8 · Épisode 9

jeudi 18 janvier 2024 • Durée 01:32:44

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Oberle Risk Strategies⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Insurance Broker and Insurance Due Diligence Provider for Search Funds and Other Small-to-Medium-Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

This episode is brought to you by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Profit Line: The Outsourced Finance & Accounting Department for Small and Medium Sized Businesses⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Today I'm joined by two of the most thoughtful, distinguished, and respected investors in the ETA ecosystem, Jeff Stevens and A.J. Wasserstein, to discuss the future of acquisition entrepreneurship. The paper that inspired this episode, written by both Jeff & A.J., can be accessed here:

Jeff Stevens is the Founder of Anacapa Partners, a firm with over 20 years of experience structuring, operating and investing in search fund-owned companies. Jeff was an acquisition entrepreneur himself, having managed 3 funded searches during the period from 1990-2005, each one culminating in the acquisition of a SMB.

A.J. Wasserstein is the Eugene F. Williams, Jr. Lecturer in the Practice of Management at the Yale School of Management. His research, writing, and teaching concentrates on search funds, entrepreneurship, programmatic acquisitions, and small businesses. In addition to his role as an educator, A.J. is also a private investor in lower middle-market businesses.

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