After signing on to become the Master Dealer for Hydroflow products in Pennsylvania, Hydroflow Pennsylvania needed to establish themselves quickly. Their mission was to both sell product and build a state-wide dealer network. Our first step was a discovery process that included a review of competitors, interviews with senior Hydroflow USA management, and interviews with leading [...]
Not a reference to the Cultural Revolution. Not the English post-punk band (whose latest album cover is shown to the right). We’re talking business peer groups here. Years ago when I owned a Parcel Plus franchise, I had a standing monthly meeting with three other franchise owners – lunch followed by a couple hours discussing [...]
A new study by the Kauffman Foundation shows that essentially all of the net job growth in the U.S. is due to startup firms. Studying a newly available Government dataset that provided new business and job creation data from 1977 to 2005, they showed that on average, startups in the U.S. added 3 million jobs [...]