My Guest Les Trachtman is a seasoned entrepreneur, educator, and author with over four decades of experience in strategy, consulting, and start-ups. Les is also an adjunct instructor at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School, where he shares his years of experience and insights with the next generation of business leaders. He is aContinue reading ““Don’t F*ck It Up”: Les Trachtman on Avoiding Post-Close Founder Succession Mistakes”
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Long Term Holds: With Zac Carman, CEO of ConsumerAffairs for 14+ Years
My Guest My guest today is Zac Carman, CEO of ConsumerAffairs.com since 2010, the year in which he acquired the company from its founder, Jim Hood. ConsumerAffairs is a user-review website that helps over 7 million people per month make decisions on big questions like home warranties, debt consolidation and elder care planning. Prior toContinue reading “Long Term Holds: With Zac Carman, CEO of ConsumerAffairs for 14+ Years”
Dr. Bill Hudenko: Professor of Psychology at the Dartmouth School of Medicine and a 4x Founder & CEO
My Guest Today I was thrilled to be joined by Dr. Bill Hudenko, an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Dartmouth School of Medicine. In addition to his experience as a professor and clinician, Dr. Hudenko is also a 4x CEO & Entrepreneur, having founded and sold several companies that have utilized technology toContinue reading “Dr. Bill Hudenko: Professor of Psychology at the Dartmouth School of Medicine and a 4x Founder & CEO”
17 Lessons on the Psychology of Being a Searcher and CEO
Listen to this Blog Post A funny thing happened to me during my ~10 years as a searcher and CEO: Though I had an endless number of commercial problems and opportunities that required my attention at any given time, it was often the personal considerations that kept me up at night: Indeed, I rarely lostContinue reading “17 Lessons on the Psychology of Being a Searcher and CEO”
When Search Funds Don’t Go As Planned (Part 1): 3 Searcher Case Studies
My Guests If one were to attend a randomly selected group of Search Fund conferences, they’d be forgiven for thinking that every search fund is a smashing success. When I was both a searcher and a CEO, I often left these types of events with a certain sense of insecurity and self-doubt, as everybody seemedContinue reading “When Search Funds Don’t Go As Planned (Part 1): 3 Searcher Case Studies”
Evaluating the Correlation Between Hours Worked and Success Achieved
Listen to this Post Though there are countless books, blogs, podcasts, and social media accounts that serve as thoughtful and informative resources for current and prospective entrepreneurs, unfortunately there appears to be an equal number of resources that demonstrate seemingly no limit to the fundamentally bad advice that they’re willing to impart upon others. EarlyContinue reading “Evaluating the Correlation Between Hours Worked and Success Achieved”
Employee Burnout and The Great Resignation
My Guest My guest today is Carin-Isabel Knoop, Executive Director of the Harvard Business School Case Research & Writing Group. Carin has spent decades writing cases on managers and leaders all over the world across a wide array of functions and industries. In 2019, alongside co-author John Quelch, Carin published Compassionate Management of Mental HealthContinue reading “Employee Burnout and The Great Resignation”
Should You Become an Entrepreneur?
Listen to This Blog Post Within your first-degree network alone, I suspect you know a large number of people who, at one time or another, have expressed a desire to pursue an entrepreneurial career path. Yet I also suspect that, of those people, only a small percentage of them have actually elected to take theContinue reading “Should You Become an Entrepreneur?”
“Like Changing Tires on a Moving Car”: The Unseen Realities of Managing Rapid Growth
My Guest Anthemos Georgiades (or Anth, for short), is the founder and CEO of Zumper, an apartment rental platform based out of San Francisco that he founded in his second year at Harvard Business School in 2012. If anybody knows anything about running a rapidly growing company, it’s Anth. Consider this: Despite being founded lessContinue reading ““Like Changing Tires on a Moving Car”: The Unseen Realities of Managing Rapid Growth”
Understanding and Managing The Psychological Toll of Being an Entrepreneur or CEO
My Guest Dr. Eliana Cohen is an entrepreneur and Clinical Psychologist who runs her own practice, integrating performance psychology, strategy, emotional intelligence, and knowledge of neuroplasticity and the brain to serve her various clients. She has worked with countless entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs in her practice, and is passionate about discussing the psychological realitiesContinue reading “Understanding and Managing The Psychological Toll of Being an Entrepreneur or CEO”