by sgelbard | Jul 3, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
I’ve had the same conversation dozens of times. A successful entrepreneur — someone who has spent twenty or thirty years building a business that generates real wealth — sits across from me and explains their current financial situation. They have a private...
by sgelbard | Jul 3, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
Most advisory boards are theater. A collection of impressive names on a website, assembled to signal credibility rather than generate it. The founders who built them were well-intentioned — they wanted smart people in their corner. But somewhere between the initial...
by sgelbard | Jul 3, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
Everyone focuses on the number. The headline valuation. The multiple of EBITDA. The per-share figure that gets announced in the press release. After 25 years advising businesses through acquisitions, divestitures, and capital transactions across three continents,...
by sgelbard | Jul 3, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
Early in my career, I watched a genuinely talented team fall apart on an international project that should have been straightforward. The people involved were smart, experienced, and technically capable. The market opportunity was real. The capital was in place. On...
by sgelbard | Jul 3, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
The phrase “your network is your net worth” gets repeated so often in business circles that it has started to feel like a motivational poster — technically true, broadly agreed upon, and almost completely useless as practical guidance. Everyone nods....
by sgelbard | Jul 3, 2026 | blog, Business, Business Consultant, Entrepreneurship, Scott Gelbard
I have seen more well-crafted strategies fail not because the thinking was flawed, but because the timing was off. A brilliant market entry plan launched six months too early. A restructuring initiative rolled out in the middle of a leadership transition. A capital...
