Poised for Exit
Welcome to the Poised for Exit podcast! Poised for Exit is an under 30-minute strategic planning guidance podcast for busy small business owners. Each week you’ll hear certified exit planning advisor, Julie Keyes, talk with a range of entrepreneurs and professionals about preparing your business for a future transition. Guests at every stage of company ownership will share their personal stories and lessons learned about topics such as the anatomy of the exit planning process, developing a growth strategy, how to sell on your terms, exit planning for women small business owners, handling business diversity, and how to sell a family business. Whether you’re planning an exit in the near future or not, this show will provide you with the same action-oriented content that Julie utilizes while consulting with Keyestrategies clients. Building an exit strategy can be overwhelming, especially with all the decisions and details you have to consider. “Poised for Exit” will simplify the process and help you unwrap the unknowns, giving you more confidence in your planning process. Previous episodes are available for download, so if you are new to our show, you can listen to them in any order that suits you. Join us each week for timely, relevant content that will surely impact your business exit outcome! Subscribe to our newsletter below to receive your weekly episode link and stay updated on new strategic planning content. Find “Poised for Exit” on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and others. Thank you to our Sponsors: Sunbelt Business Advisers and JAK CPA's. A special note of thanks to Tyler Keyes who produced the music for the “Poised for Exit” show.
Poised for Exit
Rise of the Non-Technical Entrepreneur
Rise of the Non-Technical Entrepreneur
We had the great pleasure of interviewing Colin Hirdman in today's show. Colin and his partners founded Monkey Island Ventures, and their mission is to create as many successful founders as possible!
Colin and his partners are entrepreneurs themselves, obviously, so their work is more than just a way to make a living. They love what the do and the difference it makes in the world. As Colin said, when an entrepreneur is motivated to create something from nothing and they build upon that success over time, the impact to others compounds the success. Monkey Island Ventures plays in that space of helping owners create more success, more jobs and more bright futures for all the stakeholders.
Sometimes we as business owners have really great ideas to make a process more efficient, accurate, or profitable but we lack the technical expertise to automate it in the form of a software program. Enter Monkey Island Ventures, who have a process they work through with entrepreneurs to help them flesh out the ideas and map the feasibility of creating technology around it. Imagine having your own proprietary software! What if you were able to sell your software to others in your industry? Imagine the impact...
Scaling a business can be done in many ways, but sometimes the next thing requires more knowledge or resources than what we have available to utilize. If you find yourself with a business problem or necessity that needs to be solved. It might make sense to meet with Colin and go through their "Clarity Canvas" process of unpacking the issue and ways it could be solved with technology. There's so much to this episode!
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