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Patrick Morin is a partner with The Cross Partnership, a global consultancy that is engaged by private equity groups, boards of directors, and CEOs to improve the performance of their invested companies. The Cross Partnership works with select start-ups, growth companies, and turnarounds to stabilize operations and ramp up revenue and employee performance. It’s your [...]

Last week we talked about some of the personality types of the people who seem to be detractors online. Although some of them are easier to get along with than others, today I thought I’d share some additional insight from Andrea Weckerle, the founder of CiviliNation, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting online hostility and character [...]

James Walter and Corey Ross are the founders of Seattle-based BBC Easy, a provider of cloud-based automated loan management software for financial institutions and their borrowers. For more information, please visit www.bbceasy.com. In today’s competitive C&I lending market, banks are looking for ways to offer services more quickly and cheaply as well as improve their [...]

You may have heard that in February, Burger King’s twitter account got hacked. They’re not the only ones either. Jeep, Donald Trump and a score of other high profile people have had their accounts taken over. Even worse, a few weeks ago the Twitter account for the Associated Press was hacked and sent out a [...]

  Listen to Dick Cross’ interview Click here to play this episode Click here to listen to previous episodes Click here to subscribe on iTunes Click here for the RSS feed (non iTunes) Another great podcast interview with eight-time turnaround CEO Dick Cross. Have you ever wondered what it is that motivates CEOs, you might [...]

Last week I attended a webinar with Andrea Weckerle, the founder of CiviliNation, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting online hostility and character assassination. I found many of the concepts she shared to be very interesting, so the next couple of Mondays I thought I’d share some of my thoughts based upon the notes I took [...]

Dick is the founder and Managing Principal of The Cross Partnership III, a twenty-year-old, Boston-based, “hands-on” consulting and turn-around firm focused on improving the operating and financial performance of businesses owned by financial sponsors. Over the past decade, Dick has served as an interim President/CEO, leading successful business transitions in eight companies over the past [...]

Earlier this week I stumbled upon a very helpful list from AllBusiness.com. Most Main Street business owners aren’t small business financing experts and chatting with their local banker about a small business loan probably isn’t on a list of favorite things to do. With that in mind, I thought I’d share this list of mistakes [...]

There is nothing like hearing a song you love for the first time. It resonates with you immediately. It creates a feeling of peace, joy, happiness, excitement, fun, or even sadness (yes, I like to listen to sad songs sometimes). I love music. I mean, who doesn’t? One of my favorite childhood memories was listening [...]

Don Battis is Founder and CEO of Personal Asset Lender, Pawntique.  Pawntique began as a boutique online pawn shop in 2011.  Don contributes their growth to serving small business people who use their personal assets to get cash for their businesses. A family owned business located in Portsmouth, NH Pawntique serves customers all over the US. [...]