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Do You Have the Stomach for This? 2025 in Review, Part 1
This week—and next week—we take a look back at the conversations we’ve had over the past year, highlighting some of our happiest, smartest, funniest,…
7 months ago
Dashboard: This Is Killing Small Businesses
As the year comes to a close, I often reach out to John Arensmeyer, who is founder and CEO of Small Business Majority, to get his take on the state o…
7 months ago
Three Branches, Three Brands: Anatomy of a Rebrand
Episode 274
This week, special guest Rich Jordan takes us inside a marketing challenge presented by his successful acquisition of home services businesses. Do yo…
7 months, 1 week ago
Dashboard: Your Forecast Will Be Wrong. Do It Anyway
Most business owners know they should build a forecast for 2026. But many won’t—because it feels intimidating and time-consuming, and let’s be honest…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Healthcare Dilemma: Protect Employees? Or the Business?
Episode 273
This week, in Episode 273, David C. Barnett, Paul Downs, and Sarah Segal tackle health insurance, one of the least enjoyable issues business owners c…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Dashboard: Tracking the Entrepreneurial Economy
This week, Brandon Gray, a partner with CRI Simple Numbers, talks about how his firm tracks the performance of what he calls the entrepreneurial econ…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Best of: We Charge What We Need to Charge
This week, we’re replaying one of my favorite conversations of the year, a Q&A session we recorded in May at our 21 Hats Live event in Ann Arbor, Mic…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Dashboard: Finding Employees Is Harder than Finding Customers
This week, Rob Levin, who is co-founder of WorkBetterNow and who has just published a new book, the “New Talent Playbook,” talks about what he consid…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
I Have to Figure This Sh*t Out
Episode 272
This week, in Episode 272, Liz Picarazzi and Jaci Russo compare notes with Ted Wolf on their very different journeys to integrate generative AI into …
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Dashboard: Want More Domestic Manufacturing? Think Small
That’s the conclusion of Ilana Preuss, who is founder and CEO of Recast City and who believes that the way to bring back America’s Main Streets, down…
8 months ago