A bit of context: For the past 10 years, I’ve owned a wealth management firm called LotusGroup Advisors, and at the end of 2015, I transitioned out of the day-to-day operations. I spent 2016 Q1) transitioning clients, Q2) vagabonding, Q3)...
Now How? Once I figured out my ‘why’, I needed to figure out how.I decided to bank on the fact that of the 8 businesses I’ve started, 7 have been professional services. I was willing to bet that there was something...
I’m not gonna front, when I watched Simon Sinek’s TED talk “Start with Why”, my immediate response was, “who’s actually DONE that?”The premise is that great companies start by answering “why” first: Why does your organization exist? Why do you...
On this day, 10 years ago, we started LotusGroup Advisors.Every year since 2006, I’ve used this week as a time of reflection, a time of creation, and a time to honor.For me, the week between Christmas and New Year’s is...
All around you are organizations with heroic leaders who know that somewhere, their shit is broken, they don’t know how to fix it, where to start, how to find the time, or how to make it all work fast enough. Their...
Matt Johannsen aka "Josie" and his wife, Kelly, started Upstairs Circus together and have captured a totally creative niche: crafts & cocktails. But this ain't no ordinary follow-along painting class; this is a dope-ass bar, with banging beats, and an edgy...
Mike Arzt is one badass creative and thank god he picked up a snowboard 20+ years ago. His passion for snowboarding became a career, which became a business, which is now five businesses.The Public Works is creative agency that he co-founded with...
If you polled 100 startup founders about the kinds of things to expect during the process of a company acquisition, you’d be hard pressed to find any of them who would suggest that the company being bought would continue to...
A very real business strategy these days is to create and establish a tech or software based startup for the purpose of selling to a large corporate buyer in short order. It happens every day, but that’s not what Matt...