Allow me to play Carnac the Magnificent for a moment. The answer: “Sitting on a shelf collecting dust.” The question? “The location of your last business plan,” of course. Why is it that business leaders like us continue to write long and involved business plans, consuming so much time and energy, when no one ever uses or even reads them? I guess you could make the claim that the mere fact of writing a business plan is an end in itself – clear writing is clear thinking, ri

Are you an entrepreneur at heart, tired of the daily grind at a meaningless job and looking for a life of adventure and riches? If so, this blog post isn’t for you. I wrote this for serious entrepreneurs that have a history of execution over strategy, action over dreaming, and realistic expectations of the outcomes. To date, I’ve started three businesses, invested in several others, and successfully completed 6 M&A transactions for a combined enterprise value of $216 millio

Rochester, New York was once a thriving community built upon the shoulders of giant corporations headquartered here – most notably, Kodak, Xerox, and Bauch & Lomb. Today, with employment at these “big three” hovering around 10% of their prior peaks, several people have asked me over the years “why did I move here?” and “what keeps me here?” I’m writing this blog post to be the authoritative answer to this question. After college, I moved to Boston for a couple reasons – rea