How to manage a business, employees, and complex situations that arise in market systems.
Our Mission – Be the most trusted partner for business owners seeking to sell their companies to the right long-term partners, thereby becoming the leading acquirer in the lower-middle market. Thesis Capital is a mission-driven organization. In order to succeed,…
Business protocol isn’t something we come out of the womb with. How could it be? University studies are a very brief period of time and focus more on how to think than what to think. It is not much of…
Business owners and managers have only five ways to use the earnings from their business. They are: How to determine what do to with business earnings: Determining what to do with earnings is a simple calculation for shareholders. Management should…
Risk should be thought of in the vein of Fermat and Pascal:Probability of loss X amount of possible loss from the probability of the gain X amount of possible gain. When I was a young analyst I had the opportunity…
A vision statement is management’s most concise articulation of where a company can go through the execution of its mission. Vision statements are about the future of the organization, and the company’s ability to change the world. In contrast to…
Early in my career, the notion of a business mission seemed silly, farcical, even pointless. I believed that vague notions of ‘changing the world’ were only parroted by recruiters to corral wide-eyed graduates exiting the education mill. In my defense,…
Marketing, like every other business discipline, doesn’t have a silver bullet. If you are reading this you have probably tried searching for how to market your business online and didn’t find an article materially different from the article before it.…
What makes a business a good business? The best type of business? This list is was generated by reviewing personal notes during operating experience and a compiled set of notes from public information shared by Berkshire Hathaway. This article seeks…
All businesses are subject to the same laws of economics, finance and rules of accounting. Leaving economic components aside for a moment, return on invested capital is the mechanism for decision making within a business. Stated another way, accounting is…