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Growth Strategies

Why Your Business Valuation Could Be The Most Important Thing You Do

Valuing anything that matters – businesses, products, contracts, people – is a risky business. Settle too low or too high and you lose out – or worse. Often, a business' valuation receives less attention than other pricing exercises, despite the potentially severe downsides.

Growth Strategies

How Businesses Can Play A Role In Insuring The Future

By planning ahead, entrepreneurs can significantly reduce the likelihood of their businesses running into costly problems in the future.

Leadership

This Is Why You Should (Almost) Always Go for It on Fourth Down But Seldom Do

Loss aversion makes football coaches and business leaders timid when the data says they should be bold.

Growth Strategies

Need To Protect Your Business? Here's How Risk Engineering Can Help

Risk engineering makes it easier for you to obtain the right levels of insurance and avoid the higher premiums typical of a risk profile consisting of unknown or unquantified risks.

Growing a Business

What My Family's Off-Road Racing Business Taught Me About Taking Risks

The lessons I learned on the desert courses are applicable to launching any business.

Thought Leaders

How This Entrepreneur Stays Optimistic When It Comes to Risk Taking

Risk is involved in every entrepreneur's journey. Here's how this entrepreneur approaches it.

Starting a Business

Is Your Startup Worth the Risk? 5 Questions You Need to Answer

Use these simple steps to assess the strength of a startup.

Business News

Natural Disasters Set a Record $135 Billion in Claims in 2017

And this may be the new normal, according to one agency.

Thought Leaders

Here's What Science Says You Should Do to Achieve Greater Success

Taking risks may seem scary, but risk is the moat standing between you and true success

Starting a Business

Entrepreneurs Aren't Risk-Seekers -- They Just Handle Risk Better

Managing risk is in entrepreneurs' DNA.

Thought Leaders

Dear Entrepreneurs: Small Is Still Beautiful

What's so great about taking it to the next level? Bigger doesn't mean better, or more successful, over the long term.

Leadership

Stop Glorifying 'Winging It' and Make a Plan

Staying focused on whatever is the next thing gets you nowhere without a plan. Preparation and analysis are key for any business leader.

Science & Technology

What Does It Take to Be a High Performing Company in a Disruptive World?

There was a time when a company's success came down to its experience, size and scale. Not anymore.

Legal

An Emergency Safety Valve: The Case for Entrepreneurial Estate Planning

Protect your assets and safeguard your family's future with three documents that detail what will happen when you're unable to make decisions later.