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WJR Business Beat: How to Make A Family Business Last Generations (Episode 402)
In this Business Beat, Jeff talks with Weingartz family members who explain what makes a family business thrive for generations. Tune in to today's Business Beat to learn the characteristics that lead to long-term success:...
Launching a Family Business? Keep These 3 Things in Mind
Are you wanting to start a family business? If so, you’re not alone. According to the United States Census Bureau, roughly 90 percent of American businesses are either family-owned or controlled. The size of these...
Shattering Myths: Tips to Successfully Launch and Run a Family Business
Starting a family-run business is a great way to build a legacy and earn money based on your own terms. The impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on American job loss has more individuals ditching...
12 Keys to Family Business Success
Family members start a major portion of new businesses launched in the U.S. every year. Brothers come to mind, of course, when it comes to family business. Whatever the family ties, however, starting a business...
Starting a Family Business? Avoid These 5 Mistakes in Your Continuity Plan
The following is excerpted from "The Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook: How to Build and Sustain a Successful, Enduring Enterprise" by Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021). It may seem counterintuitive...
WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Blake’s Hard Cider is a Winning Formula (Episode 163)
On this morning's WJR Business Beat, Jeff shares the story of a visionary entrepreneur in our region, Andrew Blake. Blake, a third-generation entrepreneur, came up with an idea to expand his family business by creating...
Thinking of Starting a Business with Your Spouse? 5 Tips to Ensure Success and Productivity
It’s not uncommon for couples to consider going into business together. After all, your life partner is an easy pick, as many spouses are loyal, supportive and even share the same dreams and goals. Plus,...
Women in Business: StartupNation Radio feat. Jennifer Kluge and Jana Brownell
On today's episode of StartupNation Radio, Jeff is joined by co-host Norm Pappas, president and CEO of Pappas Financial. Together, they interview two accomplished entrepreneurs: Jennifer Kluge and Jana Brownell. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell...
Winners in Business: StartupNation Radio feat. Bruce Liebowitz and Marci Taran
This episode of StartupNation Radio is brought to you by Pappas Financial On today’s episode of StartupNation Radio, Jeff is joined by co-host, Norm Pappas, president and CEO of Pappas Financial. Together, they interview two guests who...
WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Tricia Ruby (Episode 57)
On the WJR Business Beat this morning, we're featuring the story of Tricia Ruby, a great entrepreneur right here in the metro Detroit region. Tricia is the CEO of a structural engineering company known as Ruby+Associates,...
StartupNation Radio feat. Ruby+Associates and 1-800-SWEEPER
On this episode of StartupNation Radio, Jeff is joined in the co-host seat by Norm Pappas, president and CEO of Pappas Financial. StartupNation exclusive discounts and savings on Dell products and accessories: Learn more here To...
This Mother-Daughter Duo Offers Lessons in Entrepreneurship After Building Their Own Successful Startup
There’s so much great advice out there on how to start a business, but you never really know what’s real until you do it. I not only dove in head first, but I also did...
7 Tips for Running a Business with a Family Member
Many people cannot imagine working or partnering with a family member. The idea of negotiating and communicating with familial ties each day is simply too stressful for some. However, many businesses around the world contain married...
What Mom and Pop Shops Need to Do to Stay in Compliance
Each year on March 29, we celebrate the owners of Main Street’s small businesses and startups with National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. As the backbone of the U.S. economy, these family-run companies pack...
5 Tips for Running a Family Business
The family business, whether it be a startup or a generational institution, is part of an idyllic American dream for some. Whether or not a family business owner plans or hopes to pass the business...
How 2 HGTV Entrepreneurs Overcame Major Co-Founder Discord
It’s one of the most common issues that startups face, and also one of the most destructive: discord and conflict between co-founders. In fact, research from the Harvard Business Review found that 65 percent of...
Top Leadership Traits Needed to Successfully Manage a Family Business
It wouldn’t be a stretch to say many people don’t like change of any kind. The status quo, which is known, is usually preferred against something new, which is unknown. With respect to a family...
Relentless Lori Blaker Takes Her Family Business Global [Radio]
Welcome to another edition of StartupNation Radio, where we discuss how making it to the top of a family business is harder than you think. There are some who say that you’ve got it made when...
Hay Hotels…Anyone?
Interesting article in the NYTimes: Leave it to the Germans to combine livestock with lodging. In the last decade, hundreds of farms throughout Germany have transformed old barns and potato warehouses into heuhotels, or hay...
It’s His Tailgate Party and I’ll Cry If I Want To
My husband is hosting a tailgate party tomorrow for a group of his co-workers, or co-drinkers as the case may be. Hey. I'm cool. I'm down with football and kicking home runs or whatever they do....