Profit is an opinion. Cash is a fact. And the day debt enters your business, bought or built, the two numbers split. My son is 27, a licensed personal trainer who genuinely loves the work and is good at it. He studied sports management, minored in entrepreneurship, and has wanted to run his own f...

The strength of your runway was decided long before the day you look up and see how little of it is left. In December of 2020, a friend referred me into a startup in the Pacific Northwest doing genuinely exciting work in cloud security. Two ex-Microsoft product executives, Ivy League pedigrees, a...

Two years ago, I read Arthur Brooks's book “From Strength to Strength.” A friend had gifted it to me while I was considering launching a new online learning business. The last one I launched at 38, so doing it again at 56 was scary to say the least. The typical questions: What if I blow through a...